Word: islam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANOTHER assignment for this week's issue that was received with special enthusiasm was for the Religion story on Islam. Central to the story is the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca's holy places that for a devout Moslem is the ultimate in spiritual reward on this earth. One such devout Moslem is TIME'S veteran Cairo-based stringer Mohamed Wagdi, and for him the job was the opportunity of a lifetime-to make the hajj and report it. For the six weeks after he first made his application to go on last year's pilgrimage...
...welcoming address by Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian and the seminar's chairman. Rashid M. Allyev visiting professor of Persian Literature, will speak on "Modern Persian Literature in Perspective" at 10:30 a.m.; Mhedi Y. Haery, a special student in the Divinity School, will discuss "Islam and State in Iran" at 11:30 a.m.; and Darius Homayoun, an Associate Nieman Fellow, will comment on "The Political Development of Iran...
Religious antagonism is caused by friction between South Asia's three great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Though all three have undergone schisms and changes, they have nonetheless escaped the equivalent of the Reformation, which split the less flexible Christian faith but also moved it into the modern era. Relatively unharried by reformers and modernizers, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism reached the 20th century with their ancient, fossilized social doctrines nearly intact. Hinduism's caste system, Buddhism's ambiguous attitude toward worldly institutions, Islam's hatred of infidels-all perpetuate intermittent communal discord...
...treasure chest of Islam's rarities, among them Mohammed's personal belongings, Topkapi was the scene of the crime in the current motion-picture thriller of the same name, which possibly inspired the recent theft of the Star of India from New York's American Museum of Natural History. It is no mean tribute to the Met that the men accused of the burglary first cased the Met-and gave...
When the convention opened, Elijah drove the four miles in the midst of an eleven-car motorcade, was surrounded by a phalanx of Fruit of Islam members inside the hall. Newsmen were frisked head to toe before entering, even had their shoes checked for hollowed-out heels. Lining the fern-decorated stage and directly below it was a human shield of 55 Fruit of Islam guards, and scores more patrolled the aisles...