Word: meccas
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Both the New York- and Princeton-bound say proximity to the city that is a cultural mecca, worldwide financial center and governmental hub was a major factor in their decisions to leave Cambridge...
Extra-curricular activities encompassed many facets of school life. Boston was a cultural mecca: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Gardner Museum, where chamber music was performed on Sunday afternoons, and Symphony Hall were delightful venues and cost next to nothing for students. The Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Society performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra every year and, even if one couldn’t sing (my fate), the opportunity to see one’s classmates performing with one of the great world symphony orchestras was an enormous treat...
...then “[in] the story, Mohammad abrogated the treaty.” Muslims must take issue with Gorin’s accusation that the Prophet unilaterally abrogated the treaty in question. Gorin refers to the Treaty of Hudaybiyah between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. Yasser Arafat compared the Oslo Peace Accords to this treaty in a statement at a South African mosque. The accusation of an abrogation of the treaty by the Prophet (and with it, of an intention of breaking the treaty at one’s convenience) falls flat. The historical evidence...
...Quraysh not only aided in the logistics of this attack, but also allowed Banu Bakr to massacre escaping members of Banu Khuza’ah at the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca. It was recognized throughout Arabia that by ancient custom, the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca was to be free of bloodshed, and tribes approaching it for protection were to be allowed safety. The actions of the Quraysh were in clear violation of recognized rights and responsibilities, both under customary tribal law, and under the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. Clearly, it was not the Prophet who unilaterally abrogated the treaty...
...followers in Medina. In doing so, he made compromises, such as not even mentioning God, of not signing his name as “the Prophet of Allah” (as was his custom in other treaties) nd of ignoring the property claims of Muslims driven out of Mecca by the Quraysh. Many Muslims in the Prophet’s time saw these concessions toward the Quraysh as humiliating, and yet the Prophet signed the treaty because his declared preference was for peace. It is thus not surprising that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in his speech immediately after September...