Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to be that Forbes Plaza, the space in front of Holyoke Center, was the true mecca of Square performers, but these days the Harvard cops kick them out. Just the other day a magician who was short on tricks but long on charm had attracted a huge mob but was quickly collared and hustled away. Still, sometimes you can catch a brief Forbes Plaza performance by a daring magician, if you get there before the cops...
Fahd was opposed by a number of his half brothers, who wanted to limit the power and influence of the omnipresent Sudeiris; for example, Prince Sultan is Minister of Defense, Prince Ahmed is deputy governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
...strove mightily to keep alien influences from corrupting his kingdom. He had seen it founded, after all, out of a backward region of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In 1932 his crusty father, Ibn Saud, after a series of skirmishes that ended in his defeat of Sherif Hussein of Mecca (great-grandfather of Jordan's present King Hussein), established the kingdom. Ibn Saud had 36 sons but he took an early liking to Faisal, partly because the youth displayed a notable fighting spirit and an ability to carry out his father's orders. "I wish I had three of him," said...
...protector of the Moslem shrines in Mecca and Medina, Faisal had a certain claim to spiritual leadership within Islam. But in an era when kings were being overthrown in Egypt, Iraq and Libya, Faisal's ambitions for political leadership in the Arab world were sharply challenged, most notably by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the secular prophet of a new kind of Arab nationalism. The two strong-minded leaders clashed directly only once before Nasser's death in 1970. After Yemen's Imam Badr was ousted in a Republican coup, Nasser sent in Egyptian forces to support the new regime...
...Black Muslims deride the orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices of the Nation of Islam, however, are Muslim indeed: prayer five times daily facing Mecca, abstinence from pork and alcohol, no gambling and a puritanical sex code...