Word: islamicize
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Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran...
Alumni Club. The delegates of the five Arab states in U.N. gathered round to congratulate London-educated Lawyer Cattan. They formed a group of westernized Arabs, divided by many rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy...
Of the myriads who may have attempted the ascent, Professor Toynbee distinguishes 26 civilizations. Of these there are only five active survivors: 1) Western civilization (Western Europe, the British Commonwealth, the U.S., Latin America); 2) Orthodox Christian civilization (Russia and the Orthodox sections of southeastern Europe); 3) Islamic civilization; 4...
How then, should a world-minded university teach history? Britain's famed Historian Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is...
In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, had whipped his dervish followers into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan's Egyptian rulers...