Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpaid Hardware. But Ahmad could be generous. Following the Koran's injunction on charity, he would spend hours daily under a tree in his palace courtyard receiving all comers, handing out money to widows, orphans, old soldiers, the halt and the blind. His several ramshackle palaces were filled with unworkable plumbing, gilt furniture, fading carpets and hundreds of clocks, all stopped...
...Koran says, do not nationalize other people's property...
...diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome, where he posed proudly with the baby and even bustled off to town hall to register her birth himself, Hassan said that the new princess would be called Mariam (Arabic for Mary), "a name that is sacred in the Koran and in the Scriptures, that of the mother of Jesus Christ."* One of the few young husbands able to name a new daughter and a new wife all in the same breath, Hassan let it be known that the "royal spouse"-she will not be addressed as Queen...
...were to receive titles to the land they and their ancestors had always tilled for the enrichment of others. Brightly dressed sword dancers swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down with dictatorship! Down with Communism! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser!" The mullah shrilled his enthusiastic agreement: "In the name of Allah, chase out the demons...
...Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding...