Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Elijah Muhammad, 77, spiritual leader of the black separatist Nation of Islam; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago (see RELIGION...
...groups Ali said would receive money from his fights were the National Association for the Advancement of colored People (NAACP) and the Nation of Islam, which is a religious sect known as the Black Muslims. Ali is a Black Muslim...
...Courses of Instruction lies a panoramic outline of the world's knowledge, probably unparalleled in United States education. In one description we are invited to learn about ancient history from an archaeological perspective; in another about the energetics of muscle contractions: in still another the scientific influence of Islam. There are in those 55 pages, descriptions of courses on cosmology and developmental psychology on quantitative methods for political science and quantum mechanics...
...abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well-to-do Saudis are seldom reprimanded for high living abroad, even when they lose heavily...
...Islam's heartfelt but unanswered plea dramatically highlighted the conflict over priorities that characterized the conference from its opening day. Building on the momentum generated by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visionary plea for international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 18), the delegates chose to sidestep current problems and concentrate instead on trying to develop organizational mechanisms that would cope with future crises...