Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling of God in man," declared that modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism...
...ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan, who took his soothsaying advice as gospel, but Omar was not much upset when his royal patron died and took his favor with him. Immediately excommunicated for heresy by the doctors of Islam, Omar gave away everything he owned, trudged aimlessly off into the desert...
...feels like tearing up an oil contract. Dictator Kemal for his part was anxious to talk Persian oil for the Turkish fleet. He was said in Ankara to have turned down British firms and ordered ten new Turkish cruisers built in-of all places -Japan. "The peoples of Islam are intensely admiring of the Japanese," said an Ankara official. "The Japanese have made themselves strong without rejecting their ancient faith or paltering with Christianity...
...line will make it possible for the first time to cross Persia by rail. With other railways sprouting throughout the Near East, across Syria and Irak, the statesmen in Dolma Bagtche Palace last week saw spread on their unromantic staff maps the physical symbols of a future United Islam. After taking the final Turkish salute Persia's King of Kings set the wires humming with his reputed farewell words to Ankara's Dictator Kemal: ''I rejoice at the prospect of your visit to Teheran! We are soldiers, not diplomats...
...last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills...