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Daniel H.H. Ingalls '36, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, will address the Winthrop House India Seminar on Hindu-Moslem Relations Through History" at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Room...
...moves brought joy to landless peasants and urban workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
Inner Weakness. But many orientalists see a basic ambiguity in Islam's position, and feel that outward expansion is matched by inner weakness. One such weakness is that Moslem devotion, outside of rural areas where social pressure to conform runs strong, is often little more than skin-deep. Morocco still fines men caught smoking during Ramadan, and Malaya's Moslem courts zealously crack down on khalwat (close association of the sexes). Saudi Arabia has neither alcohol nor movies, but even here faith is succumbing to the influences of modernism: this year Jeddah will have a TV station...
Indifference to many of Islam's traditional practices and customs seems prevalent among college-educated Moslems of Africa and the Middle East, for whom heaven is more likely to be a well-paying job with an oil company than a houri-filled paradise. For hundreds of years Moslem women have had to endure the restrictions of purdah-seclusion and heavy veiling. The liberated young ladies of Lebanon, long freed from purdah, now wear bikinis on the beaches of Beirut, dance the watusi at discothèques, and even marry Christians. "The young intelligentsia are fighting to modernize," says...
...universe through science. But progress is slow. A rigidly fundamentalist approach to doctrine and discipline dominates Islam outside the cities. Moreover, it was only last year that physics, medicine and engineering courses were introduced at Islam's best-known university, Al Azhar in Cairo. In West Africa, Moslem grammar schools do little more than teach children enough Arabic to read the Koran; when one group of Moslem women in Nigeria last year set up a Western-style secondary school, they had to hire as teachers two Christians...