Word: islam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basis for condemning the entire Jewish people as "deicides" because some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus. Jews were generally pleased by Bea's draft, but between sessions it was rewritten by the Council's Coordinating Commission, which added a few sentences of praise for Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed the deicide charge by asserting that Jews of today should not be blamed for what happened in Christ's time. The amendments were welcomed by Catholic bishops from Arab lands and by conservative prelates who accept...
...catechisms should "refrain from accusing the Jews of our times of what was perpetrated during the Passion of Christ." The declaration also prays for the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, and has been expanded to include a word of good will for other non-Christian faiths, notably Islam...
...Islam's oldest university has a new rector. Ending a seven month search Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser picked Sheikh Hassan Mamoun, 70, to head Cairo's Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, for 1,000 years the most renowned center of Moslem learning...
...Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1955 until 1961, he issued thousands of rulings and interpretations on religious matters. As the 39th rector of Al Azhar, Mamoun's responsibilities are even more impressive. The post carries with it the titles of Grand Imam and Sheikh of Islam, which makes Mamoun the nearest thing to a Moslem pope. Yet with Egypt struggling to slough off its feudal ways, he must also guide the university toward turning out the educated elite essential to run a modern nation...
...early days of Islam, when conquering Arab armies swept across Christian Syria, mosque making consisted of seizing Christian churches, closing their western entrances, opening new doors to the north, and praying facing south across the aisles toward Mecca. A few decades later, Moslem caliphs began to raise the first authentic mosques, blending Byzantine and Persian architecture, and in 691 A.D. the Caliph of Damascus, Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan, completed the great shrine called the Dome of the Rock...