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Islam inherited older traditions of heaven from Judaism and Christianity, including the hierarchy of angels and the seven tiers of paradise. But Muslims have a specific plan of paradise in mind, based on the stories of the Prophet's miraculous night journey to heaven. Rising into the skies on the Buraq, a fantastic creature often described as part woman, part horse, part peacock, Muhammad meets Adam, who resides in the lowest heaven, and Jesus, who is only in the fourth level. Abraham welcomes him in the seventh heaven before the Prophet is ushered into paradise for his encounter with...
...from childhood, and when Whittaker Chambers went out into the history of the 20th century, he found a huge historical correlative, a macrocosm, to match--and to explain--his own biography and, he thought, to enlarge it with the prestige of destiny. Chambers' high school classmates voted him "Class Prophet." Many years later, in the '50s, after Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury and the cold war had hardened into a nuclear stalemate, Chambers wrote his summum, which he called Witness, meaning history's witness, a prophet looking backward...
...neither poor nor great, but its fame today is the fossil of the huge notoriety it acquired as a puzzle-picture in 1913. It is lodged in history because it embodied the belief that the new, revolutionary work of art has to be scorned and stoned like a prophet by the uncomprehending crowd. In the cult of the problematic, as distinct from the enjoyable, Duchamp rapidly became a saint, and the Nude is one of his prime relics. So are his "readymades"--a snow shovel or a ceramic urinal designated as works of art, sardonic jokes that have been done...
...four Sunnis executed for the Riyadh bombing was Khalid Said, 24. He had grown his beard in the Islamic way and cut his white cotton robe at calf length to symbolize the modesty of the Prophet Muhammad. Like 10,000 other young Saudis, he had signed up for Afghanistan and the holy war against the atheistic Soviets that was vigorously supported by the pious Saudi government. For Said, Afghanistan was akin to attending a university for terrorism and extremism. He learned to use a rifle and to prime explosives. He met militant Muslim activists from throughout the Middle East, listening...
DIVORCING. ELIZABETH CLARE ("Guru Ma") PROPHET, 57, head of the New Age sect Church Universal and Triumphant, and ED FRANCIS, 46; after 15 years of marriage; in Corwin Springs, Montana...