Word: ramadan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among young intellectuals and government leaders-even including some Army generals, such as General Abdulkarim Ayadi, the Shah's own physician. Thi month's suppression of Bahai in Iran came after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools, have introduced a bill to forbid Bahai members to hold government jobs. Said one Bahai leader: "We are not authorized by the Bahai...
Once every year the Fellata quarter of Port Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea, fills up with Arab pilgrims. Their objective: to reach the Holy Land before the start of Ramadan (May 15, this year), and to visit Mecca. They come from all parts of Africa, crossing from one country to another without trouble-until they hit Port Sudan...
...rigidity of such customs as the fast of Ramadan has hindered the Islamic nations in adjusting themselves to a changing modern world. But the stern faith that goes with them keeps the Moslems among the world's most spiritually secure people. As a Beirut professor explained: "Ramadan is a time of reexamination. Americans might say it is a time to 'pull up your socks' and learn to stand up to difficulty ... It is the time a Moslem faces up to himself...
This week the month of Ramadan ended. Weak and often irritable from their long fasting, the world's Moslems once more began to eat, smoke and drink, much like the rest of their fellow men. (The Koran's traditional prohibition of alcohol is not strictly observed outside of the month of Ramadan.) The world of Islam, after defiantly exhibiting its separateness, once more let its identity superficially merge with an outer world of machines, nightclubs and psychiatrists, of Christianity and Communism...
...Arabic word Ramadan means literally, "The Scorcher...