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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mahal, Agra (200 ft.), was built by Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan as the tomb of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Dethroned by their son Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan gazed upon the Taj from prison and was later buried beside Mumtaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Shah is based on the story of the Moghul emperor, Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz. In the play, the emperor and his wife have been reincarnated into a pair of place monkeys named Mum and Shah, who do not realize who they...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Mum and Shah Blends Motion, Fancy | 7/7/1995 | See Source »

...many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that not all Islamic revivalist movements are fundamentalist, that not all fundamentalists are political activists, and that not all political activists are radicals," says Mumtaz Ahmad, a Pakistani professor of political science at Hampton University in Virginia. "There are very respectable Islamic fundamentalist movements in major Muslim societies that are part of the mainstream and part of the democratic electoral process, and that want to operate within a constitutional framework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman: A Voice of Holy War | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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