A glance at Muslim and Arab issues: ORIGINS AND GROWTH Islam means "submission" to God, or Allah, and Muslims are those who submit to his will as revealed in the seventh century to the Prophet Muhammad, a merchant from Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia.

In her memoir, Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran, American-born Azadeh Moaveni takes readers to places they rarely venture: the world of Iranian women and dinner parties, of social norms and official etiquette.

TEHRAN, Iran -- On the last stop of a tour of Iraq's neighbors, the Turkish prime minister made his priority clear: to avoid a U.S.-led war against Iraq.\r\n