Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause a war with both Spain and Algeria, Hassan had asked for 350,000 volunteers to cross the frontier, armed only with the Koran. By the end of the week, 700,000, including 70,000 women, had signed up for what Moroccan newspapers had dubbed "the Green March" (after Islam's traditional color). Doctors were still giving physical examinations to decide who was up to the arduous 15-day, 60-mile trek across a land as desolate as the moon, where temperatures at this time of year can climb as high as 113° at midday and fall...
...when it was still dominated by the same kind of nationalism that had led to the World War. Toynbee insisted that Britain could only be understood as a small part of Western Christian civilization, and that Western Christianity was only one of five contemporary civilizations. The others: Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and the Far East. Toynbee's taxonomy was somewhat arbitrary; he enraged many Jewish scholars by dismissing Judaism as one of several dead cultures that he rated as "fossils"; Africa was ignored almost entirely...
...week at New York's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The show (admission: $5) was conceived two years ago by Pir ("Elder") Vilayat Inayat Khan, 59, British son of an Indian mystic who founded the Sufi Order in the West (Sufism is the mystical movement within Islam). Pir Vilayat, a well-known guru in the spiritual counterculture, now heads the order, which has practically divorced itself from Islam. The message, one that Pir Vilayat implored his audience to spread, is "the unity of all religions...
Whatever it has borrowed from Hinduism, TM does owe something to religious tradition, and all major religions?Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Eastern faiths?at one time or another have included both meditation and the repetition of a mantra-like word. "Clasp this word tightly in your heart so that it never leaves no matter what may happen," advised a 14th century Christian treatise, The Cloud of Unknowing. "This word shall be your shield and your spear...
...thing everyone "knows" about Islam is that it prohibited artists from painting the human figure. In fact, this was not wholly true. The Koran had nothing to say on the matter. Prophetic tradition banished figures from the walls of mosques, for fear of idolatry; but there was no rule against secular figure painting. Therefore, the decoration of all the great mosques of Islam was nonfigurative, but there was nothing heretical about the secular miniatures−of astrological images, courtly scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine...