Word: korans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Arab sheik possesses-advised that if convicted under Britain's new emergency decree in Palestine the penalty would be Death. Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...
...Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month...
...Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening in the diplomatic box: "I promise before Allah the Almighty to observe the Constitution and laws of the Egyptian people and to maintain the national independence and integrity of their territory...
...will assume a distinctly cosmopolitan tinge. At the head of the list appears a Mr. Fathalla K. Moston, of Nebraska University and an "old Iranian family", who can come prepared to speak on the development of Iran from a Medieval to a Modern State, or on Mohammed and the Koran...
...ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only as a resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon. In varying forms the Bible, Koran and Talmud all tell the tale. According to I Kings 10, she came to Solomon with lavish gifts, considerable skepticism and many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more...