Word: korans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...godly man, Dictator Kemal considers that there? is no reason why Turks should not call Allah by his Turkish name, Tanri. There is no reason except centuries of tradition, no reason except that Turkish imams (priests) all know the Koran by heart in Arabic while few if any have memorized it in Turkish. Strict to the point of cruelty last week was Dictator Kemal's decree that muezzins, calling the faithful to prayer from the top of Turkey's minarets, must shout not the hallowed "Allah Akbar!" (Arabic for "God is Great!") but the unfamiliar words "Tanri Ulndur...
...Disguised as a fortune teller of Damasciis (see p. 45). Not to be confused with famed Bartab Koran, a crystal gazer, who claims' credit for forecasting President Hoover's election in 19-28, the Japanese earthquake, the Manchurian crisis. Attracting enormous crowds to vaudeville, Bartab Koran has predicted that this year Newton Diehl Baker would be nominated by the Democrats, that the Democrats will carry all before them until Election Day when Herbert Hoover will be reelected. Calling at the White House, he was photographed with the President to whom he gave a gold idol from Tibet...
...Istanbul 20,000 people shuffled into the great Byzantine Mosque of Santa Sophia on Ramadan's "Night of Power" to hear the first reading of the Koran, not in Arabic language of Mohammed, but in vulgar Turkish. The blood of the pious curdled. Many of the gaping crowd flouted tradition by wearing shoes. Photographers added to the sacrilege by setting off flashes. Although the Koran was for the first time intelligible to laymen, most of the crowd seemed under the impression that they were seeing a theatrical spectacle...
Prophet Mohammed in the Holy Koran set no minimum age for brides. The Government's new law setting a minimum age of 16, argued the Koranic priests, was clearly un-Mohammedan, since all that the Prophet specified was that a bride should be "marriageable." Meeting the Church on its own ground last week the Ministry of Justice agreed to alter the law so that when a prospective bride is less than 16 years old she may petition the Ministry of Health, claiming to be "marriageable" and offer herself for scientific examination. If Science decides in her favor...