Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...
...companions of the right hand . . . shall have their abode among lote-trees free from thorns. . . . And the companions of the left hand . . . shall dwell amidst burning winds and scalding water"-The Koran...
...mirrors of the Imperial Hotel's grand ballroom, 300 of his followers could watch themselves sipping orange pop and looking bored, as the mullah on the stage mumbled a long recitation from the Koran. Then Jinnah rose. Smiling his death's-head smirk, he held up a hand to quiet the thunderous applause. Instantly, it stopped...
Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime commander of the Pacific Fleet, was accepted into the Al Koran lodge of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland...
Only a miracle comparable to the parting of the Red Sea or the revelation of the Koran could have made the Anglo-American Committee's report on Palestine (TIME, May 6) entirely palatable to Arabs, Jews and the British Empire. By refusing to recommend either an Arab or a Jewish Palestine, by supporting neither totally restricted nor totally unrestricted Jewish immigration, by hewing to the line of compromise through 40,000 considered words, the Committee found itself in a no man's land between uncompromising factions...