Word: koran
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...Squire & the King. What said the Squire of Hyde Park, schooled at Groton and Harvard, to the Lord of Arabia, schooled in the Koran, the desert, the raid, the running horse, the harem? The only direct news was official, and it was sparse...
...rule but left it nominally autonomous, and imposed an astonishing degree of order upon a people to whom disorder has been the immemorial rule of life. Now, at 65, he is justly called Servant of the Almighty, strong as a lion, subtle as the Koran, straight as a scepter. He is, beyond cavil, the greatest of living Arab rulers...
...muezzins nearly fell out of their minarets. In mosques and bazaars, hadjis (pilgrims who have gazed upon Mecca's sacred shrine, the Kaaba) nearly tugged out their Prophetlike beards. For is it not written in the Koran: "It is for women to act as their husbands act towards them. ... Yet are the men a step above them?" But 100 women, representing seven Middle Eastern countries, had demanded equal rights for Arab women...
...tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed his name. Up & down the Nile banks, in Khartoum and smaller Sudan towns, priests married many more...
...mosques and market places of Damascus, those who remembered the good old days when a man's wives were ''The Tethered Ones" shook their heads, quoted the Koran, muttered in their beards. Whence came these foreign notions in the heads of Islam's young women? Through their charitable "Drop of Milk Society" they had boldly arranged a gala ball at a French officers' club, boldly announced that they would discard their veils and dance...