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The Islamic word baraka is derived from the word meaning knee, hence from the rapture of a worshiper on his knees before his deity, and it can be applied to almost anything to indicate a kind of beauty and virtue. As Poet Robert Graves explained it last week to the...
In all Moscow there is only one Moslem mosque, and these days it does S.R.O. business. Ever since the Soviets began buddying up to the Islamic powers of Asia and the Middle East, the Moscow mosque has served a growing contingent of Moslem diplomats. Friday night contributions to the collection...
Perhaps the most powerful religious force working for Nasser is Cairo's 1,000-year-old al-Azhar University, greatest center of higher learning in the Islamic world and seat of an "Islamic Missions City" that attracts students from every Moslem land. Recently, one Omar Salah walked all the...
Moslems should ask themselves, said Ayub Khan, why "all over the world the Moslem communities are the most backward and most uneducated." He answered his own question: Because the Islamic culture let slip its "earlier dynamism," relapsed into "conformism, superficiality and superstition." Said Ayub Khan: "The kingdoms and crowns which...
"You have only to ask for independence," said Charles de Gaulle two years ago as he sought to abate the fever of African nationalism by organizing France's African empire into a Community of autonomous states. De Gaulle frankly hoped and expected that most of the colonies would prefer...