Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotional concept of Arab unity, influenced by 19th century European nationalism, held that the Arabic language, Arab ways, and a common past of glorious medieval empire should unite 70 million Arabs from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The intellectuals' enthusiasm sparked a political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath it, this...
...gambler in a hurry, Nasser has missed few tricks in conspiracy and demagoguery. Every sleazy political fugitive in Asia and Africa finds a place on his international bandwagon. He has so far converted Islam into his personal political instrument that the Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, who is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope, seems to spend much of his time looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers...
...grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest court, he will presumably be entrusted with De Gaulle's reform...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam...
Spiritual leader of a sect of the Islam faith, the Aga left Harvard at the end of his Junior year as karim Aga Khan, and succeeded his grandfather last summer...