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...friends the Iranians are a mite edgy about the fact that Alexander the Great has been summoned to Washington, no one will blame them. The last time Mr. Great dropped in on Persia, he took it, and even now, 2,300 years later, his power is formidable. These days it resides in objects-cups, armor, coins, earrings as huge as civilizations-all aglow like ideas in the gray, composed rooms of Washington's National Gallery of Art. The exhibition of Macedonian and Hellenistic art-paid for in part by Time Inc. -is called "The Search for Alexander." It opened...
...hated as heretics because they believe that The Promised One-expected by Shi'ite Muslims-has already come in the person of Baha'u'llah, who founded the Bahá'i faith in 19th century Persia. But why the attacks on Anglicans? The church has existed in Iran for 150 years, but the 1,000 native Anglicans are associated with onetime British colonialism and suspected of serving as spies. There is a second reason: "Most of our members are Muslim converts," Margaret Dehqani-Tafti told a British reporter. "They are trying to drive...
...enlightenment by frequent chanting of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. In Allston, Members of the Cambridge Zen Center (a perfect koan: why is the Cambridge Center in Allston?) meet for chanting of the Heart Sutra, talks on the way of Buddha, and "just sitting." The Bahais, a group formed in Persia and brought to the U.S. in 1900, and the Sufis, who come out of the mystical Islamic tradition, try in their own ways to seek "the universal principles" behind all religions and bring on the "New Era" of world spirituality. Several Tibetan Buddhist groups ply their trade, the biggest being...
...rise of spring in the Zoroastrians tradition which predates the arrival of Islam in Persia by a thousand years...
...Last Nomad recaps these earlier works in text and photos, and then pushes on into Persia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky heights of the Yemen. After 20 years, Thesiger's words and photographs maintain a clarity and freshness rarely found in books of this type. Everything is confronted directly and, though there is sameness, there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above...