Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introspective Libyan soldier sees the world through the tunnel vision of a True Believer. "My life is clear," he announced not long ago. "I am married. I pray and fast and perform my duties as a Moslem believer. I don't smoke or drink, and I read the Koran whenever I have the chance, especially at time of prayer. What else is there...
...long, ugly scar on the side of his face -mute testimony to his occupation. As TV floodlights played on his shaved head, his eyes glanced over the galleries as if in search of a friendly face. He found none-only an Arabic sign with a verse from the Koran: "If you are to judge someone, be fair...
...also by the nation's Communist Party. With 6,000 active members and the support of 200,000 trade unionists, it is the biggest and most vigorous in the Arab world, largely by virtue of its skill at getting Marx and Mohammed to coexist (verses from the Koran are chanted in unison at party meetings). Though he is a leftist, Numeiry is an intense foe of the local Communists-partly because they oppose his plan to link the Sudan in a federation with Libya, Egypt and Syria, and partly because he is convinced that they want to undermine...
According to the Director General of the Thai Religious Affairs Department, plans have been started to translate the Koran into Thai so the residents of the south could study their scripture in the language of their country. The only problem is that Malay rather than Thai is their mother tongue, and all Muslims use Arabic rather than any vernacular when praying...
...villagers in Ramparts of Clay, yesterday, today and tomorrow are one. The muezzin's chant, the shepherd's flock, the inexorable rhythms of the desert-all seem to have been delivered whole from the verses of the Koran. In Director Jean-Louis Bertucelli's first feature, that isolation has the dimension of tragedy. Though France has granted Tunisia her independence and social change has been promised, the citizenry are still degraded, the colonial mind is still at work...