Word: islamicizing
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Perhaps biography will never come to the end of T.E. Lawrence. He was one of those rare and many-selved creatures whose talents for action and introspection were almost balanced, and he has become a mirror to cast back the face of each inspector. Six decades have passed since his...
Islamic delegates sought the U.N. debate in order to protest Israeli occupation of the Jordan West Bank and expropriation of Arab land by Jewish religious extremists. Even as the Security Council met, West Bank Arabs continued their protests (TIME, March 29) against Jewish prayers at East Jerusalem's Temple...
This incident was particularly significant in light of the frequency and piety with which my friends expounded on the evils of the Islamic code of honor. These friends were not "typical Algerians." They were literary malcontents who spent much of their time in cafes discussing how alienated they were from...
Right after the revolution, the government came out in favor of "lifting the veils," both literally and figuratively. By figuratively, it implied the destruction of the mentality and behavior commonly deemed appropriate to the respectable Islamic woman, and putting women to work, particularly in factories. The outcry was so great...
The persistence of French language, culture and ideas can only in part be explained as a reaction against Islamic limits on freedom. It is also the result of post-war political and economic changes. The war divided the landscape of Algerian history. It lasted over seven years and left its...