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...arrive at that,' said the King with a sly twinkle. 'The Koran says that when you see a woman you should avert your gaze. To say you avert your gaze obviously means that you have been looking...
Tamburlaine stabs his own weakling son to death, burns the Koran to defy Mohammed, would pierce the very breast of God himself...
...driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools," he said, "citizens who want their children to learn religion are deprived ... It would be suitable to have courses...
...their rewards: the right to vote, the right to join unions, the right to better schooling for their children. Some even went so far as to demand a fairer deal in marital matters. As one explained, "Although we cannot be against polygamy, for Allah decreed it, at least the Koran decrees that a man can take [four] wives only if he treats them equally." But the Sultan's daughter, who lives in a palace which not only contains the Sultan's two wives but his more than 20 concubines, is willing to admit that full emancipation will...
...father's control over his 40-odd sons. Saud has only the stature of eldest brother, and the power of his purse. There is inevitable rivalry with his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, though the old King, when death was near, made the two swear on the Koran never to oppose each other...