Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...
...Muslim group in Burma persecuted by the military government...
...emphasis on academic and political affairs was shown clearly last year during a campaign by the organization to keep Ali S. Asani, an associate professor of Indo-Muslim culture, at the University. Asani remained at Harvard, and the effort encouraged a more active policy for the SAA, members...
...many of them know little about the details of Malcolm's remarkable evolution from a street hustler who slept with white women to an ascetic minister in the Nation of Islam who preached against whites and finally to an orthodox Muslim who embraced all races. Seldom do they mention Malcolm's reverence for education or his admonition that rights don't come without responsibilities. Lee has said that his primary mission in making the movie is "to open up the history book" on Malcolm's life and legacy. At the very least, he seems to have touched a nerve...
...isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah in jail and becomes a minister of the Black Muslim faith under the sect's founder, Elijah Muhammad. In the '60s, with the encouragement of his wife Betty, he breaks from the racist Nation of Islam and pays for this social enlightenment with his life...