A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead
The invocation "Assalam o Alekum wa rahmat Allahu wa barakatuhu" (Peace be on you, and Allah's mercy and His blessings) recited at the termination of Salat
born 1928 Moroccan religious leader. A former school inspector fluent in English and French, he began practicing Sufism in the 1960s. By the early 1970s he had adopted a more political view of Islam and was influenced by the writings of the Egyptian Islamists asan al-Bann and Sayyid Qutb. After sending a letter to the king of Morocco advocating the establishment of an Islamic state a consistent theme in his work he was confined to a mental institution (1974-77), and in 1986 he founded a movement, Charity and Justice. From 1989 he was under house arrest