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Physics at Al Azhar. Within Islam there is a definite modernizing mood. Although the faith has traditionally opposed birth control almost as fiercely as Roman Catholicism, many ulama now justify it on the ground that the Koran allows leniency in the case of suffering. Far from being a static, otherworldly...
As it is, the 35-year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week...
Members of Volunteer Teachers for Africa have undertaken an extensive orientation program, including three hours a week of Swahill lessons. Swahili, a mixture of Arabic and the Bantu languages, is the official language of Tanzania, as well as a lingua-franca spoken extensively throughout East Africa.
Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man...
After Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, he advised the Americans to "choke on your fury," and when John Foster Dulles died three years later, he gleefully ob served: "The worms are now feeding on this rotten old man." Though he was more restrained...