Word: mecca
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...least partly because he was as much a politician in Arabia as the "founder" of a religion that now has more than 1 billion adherents. With frequent use of the words of Karen Armstrong, Muhammad's biographer, the film tells the story of his life--his birth in Mecca, his rise to prominence as an honest man and a successful merchant, his loving marriage to Khadija--leading up to the moment when, while he was meditating in the hills above Mecca, an angel instructed him to "recite." That was the pivot of Muhammad's life, the event that turned...
...particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed...
Riddlin’ Kids are a little different from the typical punk band: they grew up in Austin, a mecca for live music far away from the punk scenes on the East and West coasts. “We don’t have the whole regional sound. You hear some bands and you can tell they are from New Jersey. We’re from Texas, but we don’t have any steel guitars or fiddles or banjos,” said Baker in an interview with...
...Walls Have Ears A recent U.S. law extended Mickey Mouse's copyright for 20 years, but residents of Malta, Austria, now say they've housed him in their church for centuries. Restoration work uncovered a 700-year-old fresco that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years...
...daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...