Word: prophets
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...world that he is sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George Seaver, Albert Schweitzer, the Man and His Mind (Harper; $3.75). Published last fortnight was a third book: Albert Schweitzer, an Anthology, edited by Charles R. Joy (Beacon Press & Harper...
...arrangements Snedaker received an unexpected setback: the Egyptian government confiscated the residue of TIME'S Oct. 27 issue because the cover story on India had carried a picture of Mohamed. Repercussions had extended throughout the Moslem world, one of whose basic tenets is that no likeness of the Prophet may be reproduced, and protests had been made to the Egyptian government because the likeness had been permitted to appear in a magazine printed in Egypt. Snedaker explained that TIME'S editors had meant no offense to Islam...
...Imam of the London Mosque, leader of the Ahmadiyya Moslems in Great Britain, crave the hospitality of the columns of your magazine-to expose the serious injury that has been caused by the publication of a picture of Mohamed (may peace and blessings be on his name) the Holy Prophet of Islam, and ... by unfortunate remarks in the body of the article headed "India-Pakistan" in the issue...
...painting of portraits is not approved by Islam and the idea of making a picture of the Holy Prophet is absolutely repugnant and extremely abhorrent to the Moslems. But the slanderous picture which has appeared in your magazine depicts ideas that have no foundation in Moslem history, and the inscription below is simply exasperating. . . . Mohamed's (may peace be on him) sword never took the life of a single human being. He preached peace...
Kali has been in India at least 50 centuries, long before Hinduism, which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th Century they were masters, sometimes in fact but more often in name, of the subcontinent. Some Moslems in India today descend from the conquerors; more are the children of Islam's vigorous proselytizing, and none the less fanatical for that...