Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happens, like some grand exercise in mass therapy, at 10 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month, nine months of the year. As the hour nears, the streets from Mecca to Marrakech grow strangely quiet. Groups of spade-bearded sheiks repair conspiratorially to their salons; workers jam the coffeehouses, and nomads huddle like crapshooters in their tents. As they listen to Um Kalthoum's tremulous voice, old men weep, women writhe on the floor, and the hashish smokers-whose purchases soar to monthly peaks just before the broadcasts-drift into glaze-eyed reverie...
...Bombay last week, prayer was on every lip. Hindus chanted ancient Sanskrit devotions. Moslems turned toward Mecca and sought Allah's mercy. Fire-worshiping Parsis invoked Zoroaster. For 30 minutes one day, even the frenzied babble of Bombay's stock exchange subsided into a quiet whisper of prayers. All were looking to the heavens for the same thing: rain...
...help avert a war-or be ready when it comes-Feisal wants to call an Islamic summit conference in Mecca, and has won support from Iran, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms. "We are seeking only cooperation and solidarity," says Feisal. "All states are invited to heed the call, and President Nasser as a leader is, of course, invited...
Again his commitment was absolute. By 1965, he would preface his statements with "Since I learned the truth in Mecca..." and elaborate on the need for an "honest black-white brotherhood...
Having followed Malcolm through Michigan, Harlem, prison and in and out of the Black Muslims, the reader understands immediately the sincerity of Malcolms change of heart at Mecca. "There was precedent in my life for this [change]," Malcolm himself said. "My whole life had been a chronology of changes...