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...compensate for a chronic lack of Islamic holy books, Saudi Arabia has printed 1 million copies of the Koran for Soviet Muslims -- and Aeroflot has agreed to deliver them...
...except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there is an unmistakable new militancy in the air. "Makhkamov must go!" shouts yet another speaker, referring to Tadzhikistan's Communist Party chief, and the crowd roars its approval...
Khomeini's long rise to power began with a series of confrontations with the regime of the Shah. In 1962 he led a general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform...
...Muslims are trying to regain some control of religious affairs. Popular pressures led to last month's installation, with great fanfare, of a new leader for the Central Asia board. The previous head, reputed to be more adept at drinking (forbidden by Islam) and politics than study of the Koran, was ousted after an unprecedented protest march in Tashkent. His successor is Mukhammadsadyk Mamayusupov, 36, a modest and dignified scholar. At the same time as Mamayusupov's elevation, the Uzbek Republic gave his board a precious Koran dictated by Caliph Osman, one of Muhammad's earliest followers. Thousands cheered...
...novel and its Bombay-born writer has been building among Muslims for several months, and at least 15 persons have died in violent riots in India and Pakistan, where the book has been banned since its publication several months ago. Many Muslims believe that it defames both the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed and that it portrays the twelve wives of the Prophet as prostitutes...