Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort started to pick up in August, when British journalist John McCarthy was released. He was carrying a message from Islamic Jihad: if Israel would release more than 300 Arab detainees, including Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1989, the group would be willing to free its remaining captives. Using Picco as a go-between, the two sides began exchanging information about the condition of their prisoners...
...declared, "This is a Christian nation." Millions of Americans attend worship services each week, but the locales range from Hindu temples in California to churches of snake- handling Pentecostalists in Appalachia. Baptist parents might like their child's school day to start with a Bible reading, but could a Muslim teacher choose a passage from the Koran instead? Do Satanists have the right to distribute materials at school? Would a santero football coach be allowed to sacrifice a chicken before the big game...
...posts of professor and associate professor of Indo-Muslim culture in the department of Near Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations have until now been sustained by a private trust fund, said William A. Graham, chair of the committee on Middle Eastern Studies. Harvard will cease drawing from this fund, however, when Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Annemarie Schimmel retires at the end of this academic year...
...Without courses on modern South Asia, the whole program will go," said Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani. Schimmel and Asani are scholars of South Asia in the late medieval and modern periods...
Currently, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies is trying to raise money to fund a permanent chair in Indo-Muslim culture, said Graham, who is also director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...