Word: islam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of spring in the Zoroastrians tradition which predates the arrival of Islam in Persia by a thousand years...
...secretary of the ruling Revolutionary Council, president of Iran's Supreme Court and an ayatullah-the highest spiritual title in the Shi'ite branch of Islam. He is, in the view of Western diplomats, an ambitious powerbroker who puts personal game above political and even religious scruples. And as head of the Islamic Republic Party, the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, 51, represents the most serious opposition within Iran to President Banisadr. Beheshti, says a senior civil servant in Tehran who knows both men well, "won't let Banisadr sit back and enjoy...
...gurus, Guru Gobin Singh, created this khalsa or spiritual brotherhood and prescribed his devotees' dress just before he "left the world" in 1708. He followed a line of gurus dating back to the faith's founder, Guru Nanak, born in northern India in 1469. Nanak saw the hypocrisy of Islam, Hinduism, and the caste system, Mahan Singh says. He says Nanak hoped to turn the tide of the spiritual anarchy by imploring people to bow only before God and to link themselves to the guru. Today, although the faith's chief guru, Siri Singh Sahib, resides at the Sikhs' headquaters...
Some Westerners claim the ancient moral code of Islam, as practiced by the Amirs, rolls a boulder in the path of social progress and the rights of women. This is a vile allegation? Afghan women boast a rich and virtuous history. As long as there have been men in Afghanistan, there have been women. Of course, habiting with womenfolk is not always a blessed mixing. The illustrious and voluminous poet Khushal Khan Khattack expressed this love-hate relationship best in the 17th century...
...group in Iran. Although a foreign affairs adviser to Syria's President Hafez Assad, Daoudy has never belonged to a political party. Despite the fact that the Syrian government is pro-Khomeini, Daoudy has called the embassy hostage-taking an act that "has harmed everybody, including Iran and Islam." A graduate of the University of Damascus, he earned a Ph.D. in international law from the Sorbonne. In the early 1950s he served on the U.N. relief agency for Palestine refugees and argued in the U.N. for their repatriation and compensation. In private life, he is a devotee of classical...