But a resurgence of Islamic sentiment has brought the veil back onto some streets.

Given the subject of the show and the rise of Islamic and nationalistic sentiments in Turkey, he said, borrowing even four objects was a triumph.

The main factor was of course the Islamic sentiments of the Muslims who were in majority in the Bahawalpur State.

The decrees trod a line between concessions towards radical Islamic sentiment on the one hand and towards the business community on the other.

At the same time a growing Islamic fundamentalist sentiment began to express itself in demonstrations against criticism from the mainland.

There had initially been speculation that the bombing might be stopped to avoid offending Islamic sentiment during Ramadan, which began at dawn today.

"He is appealing to Islamic sentiment, Palestinian sentiment, rich-poor sentiment to try to build opposition to the regimes that oppose him, to destabilize them."

That Muslim protests began well before he issued his death threat suggests that he inflamed, rather than created, Islamic sentiment.

Throughout the 1980's, the Government sought to appease Islamic sentiment within its own ranks by financing new mosques and Islamic education.

President Mubarak has moved some way toward accommodating Islamic sentiment, and official publicity shows the 60-year-old former air force officer at prayer on all major Moslem occasions.