Word: shiah
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...high imams of the fanatical Shiah sect of Iraq's Moslems went recently a request for a fatwa-an ecclesiastical ruling. Asked by the Society for the Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...
...Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy became difficult. The number of wives decreased, the number of prostitutes increased among Iran's heavy female population...
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