Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sons For a Nation. As the Koran allows, he took wives in rapid succession, perhaps 140 in all, but never more than the permissible four at one time, to seal bargains, make alliances and produce sons. There came 40 sons and an estimated 64 daughters (girls are not counted officially). "In my youth and manhood, I made a nation," he once said. "Now, in my declining years, I make...
...repugnant to the Holy Koran" may be enacted by state or local assemblies...
...gentle manner to his family and friends. Every Christmas he receives hundreds of cards from men who have for three years bought late meals at the store. And he has rescued at least one beleaguered Arabic student around exam time, with his translations of the classical Arabic from the Koran...
...buried until he was avenged in blood. Fadwa, the widow, shed her modern ways and vowed that her family, the fierce Barazis, would also avenge her husband. The Abbouds and the Barazis knew the Prophet had sanctioned what they must do, for it is written in the Koran: "0 believers! Retaliation for bloodshed is prescribed...
...done before him. Outside Mecca, on the plain of Arafat, he arrived at the immense tent city which springs up for one day and vanishes again at nightfall. He sacrificed two rams and made the all-day "stand" on Arafat's hill, half-naked and barefoot, reading the Koran and chanting prayers...