Word: islamism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve sons of Islam carried the 600-pound red, leaden coffin containing his body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears...
...Islam. Allah, like his new servants, was nomadic and whimsical. Often as not He left Mohammed in the lurch, at first. The indignant Koreish drove the Moslems out of Mecca into the hills one winter. But soon Allah was well-behaved and sharp-eared again. He revealed a splendid opening for an up-and-coming prophet at ancient, paradisaic Medina up the Red Sea coast. There, Jews were noxious, Arabs uneasy. After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira. No harm ensuing, he followed later in holy triumph on his long-lived she-camel...
...Significance. Mohammed's presumable life has now been extricated, in flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...
...covers the Kaaba in the Mosque at Mecca. Because of friction between Sultan Ibn Soud and King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics...
...travels almost incessantly; resides fitfully at Aga Hall, Bombay; possesses no kingdom or sultanate save in the hearts of Moslems; is perhaps Islam's most potent spiritual lord...