Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definitely get prominent play in the next Koran Allah commissions...
Both the Bible and the Koran make sternly clear the manner in which injury is to be avenged. "Thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth," says the Book of Exodus. In Sura II of the Koran the Prophet advises: "O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave, female for female." Unfortunately for the Middle East, this sense of bitter, retaliatory justice persists to the present...
...direct flights between Tel Aviv and Cairo to take place in 25 years. "This is my last flight. I will not fight anymore," said Muzbach Jaber Abu Halbia, 30, from a stretcher. As he was helped aboard, Egyptian Mohammed Aly, 30, clutched a small blue-bound Koran that had been given to him by the Arab mayor of Hebron. "I believe that peace is coming," said Aly with awe. "Inshallah...
Feisal is the third of more than 40 sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, a tough Moslem chief who created the kingdom of Saudi Arabia by subjugating and uniting desert tribes and kingdoms. As a boy, Feisal was taught to read the Koran by private tutors, became an expert horseman and joined his father's military campaigns. In 1931, after Ibn Saud had consolidated his kingdom, Feisal was named Foreign Minister and began to travel extensively in Europe and the U.S. After his father died in 1953, Feisal's oldest brother Saud became King; but he proved inept...
Feisal rules his people like a tribal chief, relying for advice on a small circle of ministers and halfbrothers. There are no elections, no political parties and no legislature and no constitution besides the Koran. Religion permeates public life, and the only law of the land is the law of Islam. The Mutawa, or religious police, patrol the streets to make sure that Saudis observe their prayer times and close their shops when they do so. Harsh penalties for crime remain on the books-stoning to death for adultery, beheading for murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they...