Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities of Islam, time has chipped at the hard pillars of Islamic dogma...
...Pakistan, upon its creation in 1947, began to loosen some of the old restrictions on women: purdah lost ground, women got a couple of seats (which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...
...Egypt that the stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
...often irritable from their long fasting, the world's Moslems once more began to eat, smoke and drink, much like the rest of their fellow men. (The Koran's traditional prohibition of alcohol is not strictly observed outside of the month of Ramadan.) The world of Islam, after defiantly exhibiting its separateness, once more let its identity superficially merge with an outer world of machines, nightclubs and psychiatrists, of Christianity and Communism...