Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kali has been in India at least 50 centuries, long before Hinduism, which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th Century they were masters, sometimes in fact but more often in name, of the subcontinent. Some Moslems in India today descend from the conquerors; more are the children of Islam's vigorous proselytizing, and none the less fanatical for that...
...Even so, he is much too shallowly accountable, and there are extenuating circumstances. He is only a portion of Islam, and today all Islam stirs. In India, moreover, his people are a minority, largely an impoverished minority, and could by no means fully trust in the majority's will; Congress Party leaders consistently ignored his Moslem League in favor of Moslems he regarded as Congress puppets; Nehru himself, Gandhi himself, must be held as sorely responsible for underestimating the force that Jinnah tapped, just as Western leaders for so long underestimated the evil wellspring that Hitler opened...
...Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...accident that, even as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He looked just like an oilman in sheikh's clothing. For eight days he had been sumptuously dined (but not wined, since Moslem custom forbids it) by Phillips' vice president in charge of public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant...
Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...