Word: islam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Safran had failed to disclose properly a CIA of grant of $45,700 for a conference on Islam and Muslim Politics held three months ago. Spence reached the same conclusion after a brief investigation prior to the conference, but allowed it to go forward after Safran agreed to reveal the CIA funding to all participants. More than half the scheduled participants boycotted the October meetings after learning of the CIA grant...
Spence's report reiterates his October 11 statement finding Safran had erred in the handling of the CIA grant for the conference on Islam and Muslim Politics held October 15-16 at the Faculty Club. More than half of the 25 scheduled speakers boycotted the conference after learning of the source of funding, and one returned to Cairo immediately after arriving in Cambridge...
...review was initiated after a CIA contract with Professor Safran for a conference entitled "Islam and Politics in the Contemporary Muslim World" was brought to the University's attention in early October 1985. Shortly thereafter, the press reported a second CIA contract to support research that resulted in a book by Professor Safran entitled "Saudi Arabia: The Quest for Security." The book was recently published by the Harvard University Press...
...previous statement explaining my decision to allow the conference on Islam and Politics to take place, and the conditions that were set forth and agreed to for proceeding with the conference...
...addition to Pakistan, these countries include India, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Kenya, Tanzania and more recently Britain, Canada and the United States. The Aga Khan and his ancestors base their claims to leadership of the Nizari Ismaili community on their direct genealogical descent from the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad...