Word: ruh
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...ijtihad, or critical reasoning, as ideological weapons in the war over how Muslim communities define themselves. Islamic scholar Amina Wadud notes that we are emboldened to take public action to reject the way extremists have defined Islam since 9/11. We are in the midst of jihad li tajdid al-ruh al-Islami, a struggle for the soul of Islam...
...ruh has music for all moods, and while he can get me hyped to hit the party or make unreasonable purchases on my father’s AmEx, he can also make me ponder the tenuousness of life or convince me that I can indeed fly. R. Kelly’s silky-smooth voice and innate thuggishness allows him to switch modes from preacher to player in an instant—his music has more emotional range than Shakespeare’s First Folio. At one moment, he is a dirty-talking player: for example, “Girl...
Dressed in a head-to-toe gold body suit, Ruh demonstrated the 270-revolution-per-minute spins that made her famous in the skating world...