Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan Sir Akbar Hydari, several of whose adroit coups have jolted Islam as well as the British...
MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...
Because really pious Moslems regard catastrophes fatalistically as "the will of Allah," virtually all the mosques of Islam are uninsured. Last week the Continental Insurance Co. muscled into this virgin insurance field, got on its dotted line potent Moslem signatures for taking out a policy to cover one of Islam's stateliest shrines in Egypt, the mighty Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo...
Egypt is to Islam about what the U. S. is to Catholic Rome-an outland which provides large sums of money but gets modest recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers...
...sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...