Word: ramadan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last day of Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
...prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month in the year...
...Ramadan begins with the first slivery appearance of a new moon (this year Nov. 5), ends with the next moon. During the days of Ramadan - a day begins the moment it is possible to distinguish a white thread from a black one by natural light - no good Moslem eats, drinks or has intercourse with women. Fanatic Moslems believe that their fast is broken if they swallow even their spittle, or let a trickle of water into their throats when cleaning their teeth. Especially holy are the last ten days of Ramadan, during which falls the "Night of Glory" (or "Power...
...Rafilowich, son of an Imam in a Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane's hordes who entered Russia 600 years ago. But at the joyous feast which ends Ramadan Dec. 5, 300 Moslems - Arab, Syrian, Egyptian, Turkish, East Indian - are expected to gather in the mosque from all parts...
...During Ramadan all Moslems are especially irritable because they eat nothing during the hours of daylight. After the fasting is over Turks will be more tractable, may accept from their Dictator a new name for their...