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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...additional course—not included in the aforementioned count—which was already approved for Gen Ed credit, has been approved for a second area. Ali S. Asani’s Culture & Belief 12: “For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Cultures” will now count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement as well...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ten New Gen Ed Courses Approved; Committee To Convene on Biweekly | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...once, in all my years in Tehran, did I hear anyone suggest yoga might be incompatible with Islam. Indeed, the city's packed yoga classes overflowed with believers, instructors who started class by venerating the Prophet Muhammad on his birthday, Ramadan classes where everyone was fasting and went all noodlely by the end. Most seemed sensible enough to realize you could lower or raise the spirituality volume of yoga as you pleased, and that doing downward facing dog didn't make you a bad Muslim. One of my girlfriends even attended a Sufi yoga class where the teacher played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should a Pious Muslim Practice Yoga? | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...that's flexibility in Obamaspeak) and an abundance of phrases like "hope," "brotherhood" and "change" that "inspires" people to project all their wishes onto Barack Obama. It looks more and more like a cult of personality: T shirts, magazine covers, TV shows, posters accompanied by propagandistic slogans declaring Obama prophet, messiah, revolutionary. We've seen it all before. Change? Sounds more like business as usual. Gerhard Moser, INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capturing the Moment | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...Bragg to the southern Philippines. Nkunda is a man who manages his appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret and gold-rimmed glasses, and carrying a black cane topped with a silver eagle's head. At times, he has affected a prophet-preacher look: a long flowing black overcoat, a high cream woollen polo neck and a wide-brimmed black felt preacher's hat. But for the rally - perhaps the most public appearance he has ever made - Nkunda selects a new outfit: U.S. desert camouflage. The suggestion seems to be that Nkunda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...utilizing the “sleeping embryo” theory, the concept that the female gestation period can range anywhere from six months to five years—an idea contained in the Hadiths, or sayings of the prophet Muhammad—women accused of adultery and facing death by stoning can be defended within the context of Sharia, said Ibrahim, the Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Fellow Defends Nigerian Women Using Sharia Law | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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