Word: mohammedane
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...Mohammedan may divorce his wife simply by saying: "Tallaqtuki" (I divorce thee) three times. The Congress urged that it should be made harder for men to say "Tallaqtuki...
Married. The Aga Khan, 67, melon-faced Mohammedan multimillionaire (TIME, Oct. 2) ; and Yvette La Brousse, 38, '"Miss France" of 1932; he for the fourth time ; in Vevey, Switzerland...
...years have India's Brahman priests gathered to perform this mahayajna (great sacrifice) for the purification of the world. Last time: after the 17th-Century Mohammedan Emperor Aurangzeb slaughtered thousands of Hindus. Then the priests gathered at Benares, recited 10,000,000 prayers...
...religious organization has been permitted to send food to the Bengal famine victims (TIME, Nov.1). The U.S. Government last week told the American Friends Service Committee that it may ship to India some 20,000 cases of evaporated milk (value: $100,000) to be distributed cooperatively by Hindu, Mohammedan and Christian agencies...
...Soviet Union Government, which two months ago resuscitated the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), last week bowed toward Mecca. Though the Bolsheviks have carried on an unflagging struggle with the more pious believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...