Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsewhere in Islam than at Meknes, no such lavish gestures marked the observance of Mohammed's birthday. Celebrations of the Prophet's anniversary vary locally, like those of Christmas, but they preserve in general an orderly and charitable character appropriate to Mohammed's disclaimer of divinity. In Egypt, Mevloud is a holiday which Moslems devote to house-to-house visiting, attending services at the mosques. In Constantinople, the minarets are lighted, the orphans and poor, as elsewhere in Islam, receive food and candy...
Simonne Ratel, journalist and scholar, has taken her M. A. in Greek and Latin at the Sorbonne. Onetime member of the editorial staff of France-Islam, of La Renaissance du Lime, of Comoedia, she has also published a book of essays, Cocktail. The adaptation of Love's Not Enough is by Joseph Collins, famed litterateur-physician...
...Istanbul last week one James Lummox, Negro, issued a call to U. S. Negroes to imitate him-embrace Islam, migrate to Anatolia where there are no race distinctions and where they could get farm land cheaply, turkicize their names (locally his is Ali Mehmed Bey). As evidence of his missionary work he reported that Detroit has 83 Moslem Negro families (names and addresses not given) waiting to follow...