Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
...decade since, the rising surge of nationalism has brought freedom to some 230 million of the world's estimated 400 million Moslems, establishing new nations across half the world's girth. From Morocco to Indonesia, the drive of Islam's women toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries toward independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted...
What happened immediately was characteristic of the troubled journey of Islam's women into the Moslem world. As soon as Aisha and her father left the city, wizened old Sidi Mohammed Tazi, the mendub of Tangier, ordered all women in Western dress arrested. Those who resisted had their clothes torn from them publicly by Tazi's police. "What is good for princesses," said the mendub, "is not good for other women. If our womenfolk put on Occidental clothes, they will try to become completely Occidental. They will drink, wear bathing suits and dance, and they will...
...authority that derives from the fact that her father, King Mohammed V (the title he assumed this year), is spiritual leader of Morocco's 9,000,000 Moslems as well as their temporal ruler. For that struggle has also meant a head-on clash with the mullahs of Islam, who insist that the Koran, as the literal word of the Prophet, is subject to no modification or review whatever. The King has dedicated both himself and his daughter to the proposition that the Koran is a living creed, that if Mohammed were alive today, he would be shocked...
...Over the centuries," says Morocco's Minister of Justice, "false interpretations of Islamic law have loaded society with social abuses of many varieties. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the situation of Moslem women. Islam makes woman equal with man, with the same rights and the same duties. It gives her the right to choose her husband, and if it allows polygamy, it submits it to severe restrictive conditions which are difficult to fulfill...