Word: islamism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicion that the Kurds are demanding Kurdistan for the Kurds, an echo of the old cry of self-determination. To begin with, they have proclaimed Prince Selim, one of Abdul Hamid's sons, King of Kurdistan, and have also proclaimed themselves as crusaders in the holy cause of Islam against the "atheist" Kemalists who now govern Turkey from her new capital, Angora, in the heart of the Anatolian Peninsula. But the matter goes further. In effect, this is nothing more than the unfurling of the banner of the House of Osman, deposed by the Grand National Assembly...
...Samuel M. Zwemer of Cairo: "Christianity and Islam face each other as rivals for world domination...
...warlike Wahabis, subject of the Emir of Nejd and Hasa, rode into the city, made straight for the great Mosque containing relics of Mohammed, rode seven times around it, dismounted, fell upon their knees and bowed their heads to the ground in religious homage at the shrine of Islam...
Curious heads along the curious streets of Jeddah, port of Mecca, craned to see Husein, abdicating King of Hejaz* and Calif of Islam (TIME, Oct. 13). It was announced that Husein would sail away-none knew whither...
...Koran is then the supreme authority of Islam. Under it are many others. Mohammed said there would be 73 Moslem sects, but that only one would survive. This is authority enough for the existence of 73 sects, although the nuances which differentiate some of them are delicate in the extreme. For the purpose of clarifying the background to events which are even now taking place in Arabia, attention will be drawn to onethe Wahabite. The Wahabis are a cross between the Hanbalite and Zahirite sects or, in western parlance, the Puritans of the Church of Islam. They cling tenaciously...