Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Howard Carter arrives in Alexandria he will find Professor Evaristo Breccia, director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, already probing in the dust beneath the Mosque of the Prophet Daniel, searching for Alexander's body. For 25 years Professor Breccia Pleaded with Moslem authorities for the privilege of digging, only last week received permission...
...British may "capitalize" the very grave political issues which divide Hindu and Moslem, in the sense that it is those among other things, which make the continuance of their power in India necessary and inevitable; but Dr. Bapat advances no evidence to show that they foment such controversy. Such a policy would defeat its own ends by uniting the hostile groups, and it would involve the danger of a religious war fatal to every British interest...
...miles away, could house them all. Most lived on their ships in Tunis harbor. Several thousand lived in tents on a large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage in 698 A.D. Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside...