Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...westernizing Turkey in the 1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot...
...MUSTAFA EL-RIFAI...
...serving as the bar of justice, the Israeli court was called to order on the very edge of the line of rusting iron bars that mark the border. On one side, Israeli soldiers guarded the prisoners on trial. From the other, officers of Jordan's army approached with Mustafa Jela, the seamed and middle-aged owner of the cows. The first witness (from the Jordan side of the fence) was a tracker who followed the path of the cows to the border. The second was a character witness for Jela. "He is an upright man who does not know...
...Praise be to Allah and to Israeli justice," cried Mustafa. "Court adjourned," snapped the Israeli judge as the cows were led across the border into Jordan...
Crowning Edifice. Last week Libya's Premier Mustafa Ben Halim, visiting Tunis, signed an agreement with Bourguiba that looked to a day when their mutual borders would disappear. "An audacious step has been taken toward the building of a great, unified Maghreb," cried Bourguiba. "When Algeria has overcome her tribulations, the edifice will be crowned." He added a warning: "France is today faced with an alternative. On one hand, an endless war . . . on the other, the constitution of a North African community deeply unified and ready to cooperate...