Word: ism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast, using torture and execution to suppress dissent. In addition, Khomeini's place in the world of Shi'ite theology gave him a platform. Unlike Sunni Muslims, members of Islam's other, much larger branch, Shi'ites believe in an intermediary between God and man. In Shi'ism's first centuries, this role of mediator was played by the Twelve Imams, who were thought to be the rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad and who combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue to believe that the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared in A.D. 940, will one day emerge from...
...Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year, then exiled to Turkey. He soon moved to the Iraqi city of An Najaf, one of Shi'ism's holiest shrines. There for 14 years he taught, meditated and taped messages of hate against the Shah that were distributed on cassettes to mosques back in Iran...
...harpsichordist broke the ice Wednesday with a typical Kipnis-ism: a two-hour recital in the Dunster House dining hall--during lunch. Kipnis said he chose Dunster House for the recital because it was his old House when he was at Harvard...
...tradition of the Prophet") believes he can have a direct relationship with God. While the Sunnis scorn emotional outbursts and engage in private, meditative piety, Shi'ites are more likely to indulge in displays of religious ardor. Indeed, the Sunnis, who consider themselves the orthodoxy, did not accept Shi'ism as a legitimate school of Islam until...
...have especially raised questions previously about what is produced in the social sciences, by some people and how this production affects "politics." This political motivation does not mean that I support some wing over another wing, say the left wing over the right wing, or that I support some "ism" ideology like socialism, communism or capitalism. I understand "politics" to mean in the broad sense how one deals with social organizations, how we arrive at decisions concerning society, the role of government, the role of education, the role of the press in informing the public, how information is processed...