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After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic.
For Egyptian men, marriage has long been a most enjoyable custom. By tradition, any Moslem husband tired of his bride had simply to say thrice, "I divorce thee," and the marriage was over and done with. And there was a special added, non-Islamic benefit. If the wife left him...
But last week a special judicial committee of the United Arab Republic decreed a restriction of the man's right of divorce throughout the twin provinces of Egypt and Syria. After Oct. 1, divorces can be obtained only in a court of law, with a fair provision made for...
Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco...
Tunisia's modern-minded President Habib Bourguiba, a Moslem himself, regards Ramadan as so much cultural excess baggage. He has already officially abolished the veil in Tunisia and introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then...