Word: ramadan
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With this past Friday marking the start of the month-long holiday of Ramadan, observant Muslim students at Harvard have begun fasting from sunrise to sunset...
Though HIS has always organized Ramadan festivities, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) also helps Muslim students to observe the holiday...
...walls, is at odds with the beliefs and practices of the roughly 200 million Muslims in Indonesia. Since Arabic traders began to spread Islam across the archipelago about 700 years ago, the religion has assumed many forms. Indonesia has fiery Wahhabi evangelists and Jakarta sophisticates who drink cocktails during Ramadan. The vast majority of Indonesian Muslims fall somewhere in between, practicing a form of the religion distinguished by its "peacefulness and tolerance," says Masdar Mas'udi, an influential progressive cleric based in Jakarta. That tolerance includes an acceptance of widely differing interpretations of what it means to be a good...
REVOKED. The work visa of TARIQ RAMADAN, a Muslim scholar scheduled to teach at Notre Dame this fall; by the Department of Homeland Security, which called him a public safety risk. The university and Ramadan, 42, deny the allegation...
...ANNOUNCED. NATIONWIDE ELECTIONS in Saudi Arabia, the first in the kingdom in four decades; to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils; in Riyadh. The vote will take place in three stages, starting in November after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and finishing in January 2005. The elections are part of a campaign to introduce political reform to the tradition-bound country, although Saudi women's rights activists complain that suffrage will not be extended to women...