Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...processions. King David "danced before the Lord with all his might" (11 Samuel 6:14), and the Old Testament Hebrews danced in their vineyards on the Day of Atonement. The Greeks danced in honor of Apollo, of Pan, of Artemis, and in the ecstatic mysteries of Dionysus. In Islam, the Mevlevi dervishes still dance in patterns designed to expound cosmic laws as well as to achieve a state of inner peace...
...Marxism is a force which may replace Islam as a totalitarian philosophy, uniting life and belief," Serge A. Zenkovsky, research fellow in the Russian Research Center, said last night...
Zenkovsky spoke to the Slavic Club on "Islam and the Soviet Union." There is a great danger, he asserted, that Marxism will fill the vacuum left by the disintegration of the Islamic religion as a social force...
...Zenkovsky declared, not because they believe in it, but because it offers them a force and dynamism to take revenge on the West for centuries of humiliations. Despite its atheism, Marxism's cosmopolitan outlook and social element make it in many respects similar in structure to the philosophy of Islam, Zenkovsky said...
Last week the British moved on the diplomatic front to secure the two pivots of the new command. Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom that borders on the Aden protectorate. With his aged father ailing, the bearded young prince now rules the country. Last year he negotiated in Moscow for shipments of Soviet arms, but recently has shown signs of nervousness over Soviet penetration. The British hoped to persuade him to help restore peace on the Aden-Yemen border...