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Senior Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the Special Report, first began to appreciate the pervasiveness of the faith while serving as TIME'S religion writer from 1962 to 1966. "Islam has been so frequently misunderstood," contends Elson, "partly because so many people have tried to apply terms from Christianity and Judaism to it. What we have attempted to do is give a succinct but complete picture of a phenomenon that is not merely a faith, but a way of ordering society...
...revival of Islam has been gathering force for more than a decade. Islam is no Friday-go-to-mosque kind of religion. It is a code of honor, a system of law and an all-encompassing way of life. To be sure, religious observance varies somewhat from country to country and person to person. Nonetheless, to the average Muslim, his faith is much more in evidence in everyday life than is Christianity to people in most Western lands. On Fridays, the Muslim sabbath, life comes to a halt in the factories, the marketplaces and the public squares. Men assemble their...
...important it was for Islam to exercise temporal as well as spiritual power. At its nadir, in all the Arab world, only Yemen and Saudi Arabia, poor and backward, were nominally independent. Iran, Afghanistan and secularized Turkey, where Kemal Ataturk had disestablished Islam as his country's official religion in an effort to forge a stable and progressive nation, were free. But elsewhere?on the Indian subcontinent, in Southeast Asia, in Africa and the Pacific?millions of Muslims were under colonial rule...
...morning had ripened into the Baptist version of fun by that night. Old angers were left outside the big top. Warmth flowed along with the California wine. Clark Clifford, waiting for the President to greet the crowd, was a man who had always been suspicious of the show of religion in statecraft. Still, touched by the spiritual nature of the day's events, he found himself wishing that Carter would say grace, something that has never been done in memory at a state dinner. Almost as if there had been thought transference. Carter then announced that he wanted...
...most fanatical enemies we have. We didn't do any wrong to them, yet they claim that the city of Jerusalem must be detached from Israel. This of course can never happen. What does Saudi Arabia have in common politically with Jerusalem? From the point of view of religion, I can understand it. In Jerusalem, there are holy shrines of Islam. And every Muslim has free access to them. We would invite Saudi Arabians to come to Jerusalem and go to Al Aqsa [mosque] and pray. But if they speak about the repartition of Jerusalem, they speak nonsense...