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[Yesterday Moslems from throughout the world converged upon Mecca, to fulfill the fifth pillar of the Islamic faith, a pilgrimage to the holy city. The following article describes their journey.]
In Mecca the pilgrims end their state of "ihram" by a symbolic shortening of the hair. They resume their commitment to the present and the particular once more. They revert to their own dress. Many travel to Medina, the second most revered city in Islam, where Mohammed established the first...
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," goes the old political maxim, which is one reason why terrorists are so hard to identify. Nonetheless, an expert in the subject, New York City Police Department Terrorism Specialist Captain Frank Bolz, estimates that there are 140 clearly...
Land's idea is not new. The camera obscura (the word camera means room or chamber in Latin) was described by the Islamic scientist Alhazen, who died in A.D. 1039. It consisted of a darkened room with a small opening through which light passed to form an image on...
Is Islamic law a deterrent? The Saudis think so, and point to their crime rate, one of the lowest in the world. But recently an influx of low-income foreign workers-most of them Muslim-has caused an upsurge in crime, suggesting that knowing the laws of the Koran and...