Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very smart cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because "I took it 40 years of my life." At registration, she was presented with front-row seats to school basketball games-and a book of freebie burger coupons...
Next day, fulfilling a vow he had made to himself (see interview), Sadat prayed in Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest places. Then the son of Ishmael stood before the sons of Isaac in the Israeli Knesset and formally declared that the deep, violent enmity between them had somehow passed...
...that awed adventurers from Caesar to Napoleon are irresistible still, magnets for tourist dollars, marks and yen that Egypt must have to help surmount its present problems. "Egypt is a dusty city and a green tree," said Amr ibn al As, the Arab general who conquered the country for Islam's warriors in the 7th century. "The Nile traces a line through the midst of it; blessed are its early-morning voyages and its travels at eventide...
Sunday, as Sadat later reminded his Knesset listeners, was 'Id al-Adh?, an Islamic holy day that commemorates the willingness of Abraham, the patriarch and prophet revered by Jews and Muslims alike, to sacrifice his son. The visiting President began the day with prayer at Al Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem, the third holiest spot in Islam. Then as a gesture to Egypt's large Coptic minority, he stopped at the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which in Christian tradition sanctifies the spot where Jesus rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial...
...mild criticism, said the Sadat trip put the Arab world "in a precarious position." Actually, the Saudis had been briefed about the trip and its objectives by Sadat and had accepted the idea. But as head of a politically powerful Arab state and the spiritual leader of Islam, King Khalid could not remain completely silent amid all the other protests...