Word: shia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, there are 800,000 Asians in Africa south of the Sahara-Hindus (the majority), Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants...
...countryside the struggle between Communists and their opponents has not been resolved. Matters came to a head in the holy city of Najaf when party militants tried to turn a Soviet embassy official's courtesy call on a Shia Moslem leader into a Communist rally. Outraged, Moslem monks and youths, holding aloft copies of the Koran, fought a pitched battle against them. Scores were hurt...
Speakers for a special symposium that night in Agassiz Theatre will be Alice Johnson Brown, Vera Micheles Dean, Ruth Ayres Given, Sybil Alice Stone, and Shia-Chen Whang...