Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before coming to Harvard, ud-Din taught Indo-Muslim history at Columbia University in 1965 and 1966. He was a professor of Asian history at Syracuse University from...
Hameed ud-Din, former professor of Indo-Muslim culture, died of cancer Thursday at the Sydney Farber Cancer Center in Boston. He was 64 years...
...received a master's degree in history from Punjab University. He earned another M.A. in Persian history at Delhi University in 1941 and received a doctorate in Muslim history in 1954 from Punjab University...
...interview took place at the Ayatullah's residence in the holy city of Qum and lasted, in all, for about three hours. As a sign of respect for Khomeini, Fallaci decided to wear a chador, the traditional floor-length black veil worn by Muslim women in Iran. "I don't wear blue jeans to interview the Pope," she explained. As it happened, the chador produced the most dramatic moment of the interview. In the midst of several questions about the role of women in an Islamic society, Fallaci charged that the chador was symbolic of the segregation into...
...sermon on the Washington Mall sent shock waves through America's politically powerful Pro-Choice movement, which espouses total freedom to abort. But even among relatively liberal Catholics there is negligible backing for abortion on demand. In fact, no front-rank Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim theologian has yet developed a serious argument for totally open abortion, though most countenance abortion in extreme cases, such as when the mother's life is threatened...