Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unto glamorous "Holy Russia" but into the drab, mechanized Soviet Union came last week the first Reigning Sovereign to enter Moscow since the days of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The visiting potentate was His Majesty, King Amanullah of Afghanistan, styled by his Moslem subjects, "The Peace of God." Accompanied by his Queen, Thuraya, "The Starry One," he is now completing a tour of the Occident (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) which has taken him on state visits to Rome, Paris, Berlin, London and several smaller Capitals. Last week the royal party, including Crown Prince Rhamatullah Khan and highest dignitaries...
Samuel Marinus Zwemer is a big-boned, crude-featured, Dutch-descended son of Michigan. He has been called the most daring, resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...
Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...
...their potent Sultan's nose. The monarch thus saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas: the British Mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, Irak and the Sultanate of Koweit...
...purpose of the World Unity Conferences is to create harmony and understanding amuse all religions, nations and classes. A deeper understanding and stronger spirit of cooperation between people themselves, quite aside from their present political, economic or religions affiliations. The same hospitality is offered to Moslem, Jew or Christian...