The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (956 page)

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LAMMAS DAY
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(Jap.). The ‘interruption’ of Zen Buddhist training which comes about with the experience of enlightenment (
kensho
,
satori
). One who rests in the experience rapidly falls back.

 
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Hasan
(son of ‘Ali)
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(1906–49).
The founder and leader of
al-Ikhw
n al-Muslim
n
in Egypt.
asan al-Bann
’ studied at
al-Azhar
and qualified as a teacher. In 1928, he founded the al-Ikhw
n at Isma‘iliyya. He attracted wide support for the Ikhw
n among all classes. He believed that the sickness of Egyptian Islamic society could be cured ‘only by a return to the regenerative springs of the
Qur’
n
and the
ad
th
’. Increasing tension between him and the government culminated in his assassination in 1949.