Word: koran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners. "In the same way, the Christian is no stranger among his own people...
From Algiers to Aden, Marrakech to Muscat, Nasser's death united Arabs in grief. Everywhere the plaintive cry went up: "Why do you leave us alone, Gamal?" From loudspeakers atop minarets in a thousand towns and cities wafted the reedy, lugubrious voices of muezzins chanting verses from the Koran...
...seemed to promise a return to the glories of ancient times. A long and luminous success for the Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin...