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...Cairo, a leading center of Islamic learning in the Middle East, has flatly said, "The struggle against Israel is jihad, and if all Moslems did their duty and took a weapon, there would be no problem." Moslem theology distinguishes between dar-al-Islam (the region already conquered for Allah) and dar-al-Harb (the region of Holy War, still to be conquered). Israel lies in dar-al-Islam and as such is seen as an alien presence in land already belonging to Moslems...
...week, President Anwar Sadat was in an amiable mood. But in the final five minutes he turned sternly serious, and then he dropped his bombshell. "The Soviet Union," he declared, "is trying to bring us to our knees. But I will get on my knees before no one but Allah." Amid ringing cheers, Sadat then demanded that the parliament unilaterally abrogate Egypt's treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union because Moscow is no longer providing the military support that the 1971 pact was supposed to guarantee...
When Nasser died five years ago, his weeping, bereaved countrymen mobbed his funeral by the millions and screamed: "Nasser is Allah's beloved...
Died. Tilly Losch, seventyish, prima ballerina of the 1920s and '30s, whose supple, fluid movements enchanted audiences of the Vienna State Ballet until she began a second career that included musicals with the Astaires and roles in such movies as The Good Earth and The Garden of Allah; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...East, Hinduism and Buddhism, have never swung away from mysticism as the pinnacle of holiness, though they also value deeds of compassion. Traditional Islamic belief views the saint or wali (friend of God) as a person with a foot in both worlds-one whose special communion with Allah coincides with his excellence in good works. As for Christianity's own rich tradition of monastic mysticism, which goes back to the fabled desert anchorites of Egypt, it seems to be undergoing a revival there and elsewhere...