Word: prophetic
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...Don’t call me a prophet, because I’m not,” Mazzoleni says. “But if you get to the championship game, anything can happen. That’s how you get in the tournament...
...bleak road map of missteps to the Islamic world of today, impoverished in almost everything but terrorism and despotism. And while Lewis never poses it directly, he leaves readers to ponder an explosive question: whether a religion rooted in the belief that all truth was revealed to its prophet can ever successfully embrace change...
...improbable rise to power began in 1994, after he emerged from anonymity armed with the militancy of his faith and a twisted sense of divine mission. Today, however, with his ideology more closely linked to his patron than his Prophet, he is skirting oblivion, destined for a cell or a grave. Of all the protagonists in this war - George W. Bush, Pervez Musharraf, even bin Laden himself - no one had more to lose. He chose the well-financed, well-armed hatred of our age's pre-eminent archvillain over the wellbeing of his people...
...invasion in 1979. As a mujahed, he earned a reputation as a marksman, but the conflict cost him his right eye. After the Soviets pulled out and Afghanistan descended into civil war, he lived simply as a village clergyman until, he claims, he had a dream in which the Prophet Muhammad revealed that he, Omar, should lead the country out of lawlessness and immorality. He and a few dozen other clerics became the foundation of the Taliban. Despite its adherence to the strictest interpretations of Islamic doctrine, the movement was welcomed in much of the country as a deliverance from...
...would be symbolically and historically fitting if the next great reform of Islam came from the diaspora in the West. After all, the starting point of the Muslim calendar is not the year of Muhammad's birth but the day 1,379 years ago when the Prophet led his followers from his birthplace in Mecca to found a new community in Medina. "The very foundation of Islamic civilization was built on diaspora, on the move from Mecca to Medina," says British Muslim writer Sardar. "This is where the diaspora is very important: in creating a truly moderate tradition...