Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least, were dogged by an uncomfortable awareness that the twelve-day meeting had produced more food for thought than for the starving millions whose chances of survival diminished with the passing of each wasted day in Rome. Toward the end of the conference, former Bangladesh Food Minister Amirul Islam tried desperately to focus the attention of the farsighted reformers on the immediacy of the task before them. At a press conference, Islam announced that 100,000 people in his impoverished, famine-stricken country had died in the previous six weeks, and that unless immediate emergency aid was provided, 1 million...
...There are differences even in religion. Most Arabs belong to the dominant Sunnite branch of Islam; Iranians adhere to the smaller Shi'ite sect...
...diffuse emotionality that I find most reprehensible in the film. I would be the last person in the world to deny the incredible sufferings of the Jewish people in Europe. I would also be the last person to deny the existence of anti-Semitism within the Arab world and Islam (although any honest Jew who knows the story of Joshua ben Nun, who destroyed the entire city of Jericho and all its inhabitants, must also admit the existence of racism in a number of Biblical stories--including that of the Amalekites). And having lived in Israel during...
Geertz is best known his studies regarding changing religious attitudes and habits among the Islamic peoples of Morrocco and Indonesia, where he served as a Ford Foundation consultant. He recently published a book entitled Islam Observed...
...origins of this bizarre practice are ancient. The Parsis, as their name implies, are descendants of Persians who fled the conquering armies of Islam in the 7th century. Like their Persian ancestors, they are Zoroastrians, followers of a myth-enshrouded religious prophet named Zoroaster who lived some six centuries before Christ. Zoroaster's exact teaching is obscure but, as passed down by the Parsis, it is basically a vision of life as conflict between a spirit of goodness and light-Ahura Mazda -and a spirit of evil and darkness-Ahriman. The Parsis worship Ahura Mazda in the form...