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...with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert laser light show which will somehow convince them that he is none other than their prophet-saviour, Al-Jaharah--who, by the way, is being held under house arrest in one of Omar's unused palace attics...
...countries. In addition to Pakistan, these countries include India, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Kenya, Tanzania and more recently Britain, Canada and the United States. The Aga Khan and his ancestors base their claims to leadership of the Nizari Ismaili community on their direct genealogical descent from the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad...
...Claude Picasso thought that works of the prophet of modernism should have been housed in a modern building. Others pointed out that Picasso himself had never built nor lived in a new building and preferred his monumental paintings to be hung in monumental spaces. The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. The Hotel Sale, built in 1656, was chosen. Located in the Marais district, the museum is a short walk from the Pompidou Center, whose exterior is closer to an oil refinery than a museum of modern art. Conversion of the dilapidated Sale began...
...author of The Prophet could not have provided a more fitting epithet for his own tortured homeland. In Lebanon, moreover, even the fragments have - fragments. The country is split not just between Christians and Muslims. The Christian community is composed of both Maronites and Greek Orthodox; the Muslim one is made up of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Druze. In the chaotic redistribution of power now taking place, the most serious challenge has come from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning...
...President Roy Honeycutt of the S.B.C. seminary in Louisville contend that substantial portions of Exodus were written centuries after Moses, that Moses probably had an "inner experience" of God instead of seeing an actual burning bush, and that the Bible stories of the plagues of Pharaoh or the Prophet Elisha's miracles may well have been reshaped or exaggerated in transmission. That is a far cry from what many S.B.C. Sunday Schools teach...