It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 21 households and 15 bachelors.
In the 1870s the Palestine Exploration Fund visited al-Harra and reported that except for two small Damascus-born Arab Christian families, the town's population of 500 was entirely Muslim.
In 1918, after serving for one year as mayor of Jerusalem, al-Dajani joined the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian Association (MCA) and went on to become Jerusalem and then regional president of the organization.
It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 4 households and 3 bachelors.
Medieval Muslim historian Abu'l Fida mentioned Beit Saber in the late 14th-century, during Mamluk rule in Syria.
The proposal suggested that a minority of Algerians obtain full French citizenship while still allowing them to be subject to Muslim law on some social issues (such as marriage/divorce, custody, inheritance).
It is clear from the text itself that it dates from pre-Muslim times.
In 1879 fighting flared up between the townspeople and the Druze after the Muslim inhabitants of several nearby villages fled to Busra al-Harir as a result of fighting between the al-Atrash family, a leading Druze clan, and the local Bedouin.
The CCD placed particular emphasis on calling for the Canadian government to adopt a pro-Israel stance, and rejected providing Palestinians with any development or humanitarian assistance and was very critical of the Muslim world and, in particular, of groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
There were three individuals who were Jewish, and 56 (or about 2.92% of the population) who were Muslim.
Like other Muslim artisan castes, the community no longer practice their traditional occupations.
It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 74 households and 28 bachelors.
What is the more priority of the church is the expansion in the Middle East, where majority of the people are Muslim.
It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 15 households and 6 bachelors.
The Dhawad are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.
During the winter break before her second semester at McCleans Preparatory School, Amal debates wearing the hijab (the religious Muslim head covering) as a full timer (meaning that she would have to wear it in front of males who weren't immediate family).
The rulers of Eastern Ganga dynasty defended their kingdom from the constant attacks of the Muslim rulers.
The convent is accessible only from the basilica, which under Ottoman rule was in charge of Muslim guards.
According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.
It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 25 households and 12 bachelors.
In 1947, Mohandas Gandhi came to Kolkata and urged the Hindus to harbour any ill feeling towards the Muslims and appealled to them to surrender all their arms to him.
His father was a patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi, employed by a Muslim landlord of that area, Rai Bular Bhatti.
Although the origins of this name mean sunshine or sunlight, this name is the basis for Hajj, the (annual) pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Muslims.
Hayriye was founded in 1877-78 by Georgian families of Muslim faith who migrated to Turkey from the border area between Georgia and Turkey (near Artvin) (situated in the province of Adjara in today's Republic of Georgia).
He believed that the religious symbols, which were being used by revolutionary groups in Bengal during the first decade of the twentieth century, had kept the Muslim participants aloof from the revolutionary activities of the Indian freedom struggle.
After the Republic of Turkey was formed in 1923, the station's name was changed to Hilal which means 'crescent', due to the majority of the city's population being Muslim.
For Muslim theologians, the laws of nature were only the customary sequence of apparent causes: customs of God.
Almost 90% of Javanese are Muslim, and consequently, much of Javanese cuisine omits pork.
In terms of religion, they are fairly orthodox Sunni Muslims, and have customs similar to other neighbouring Muslim peasant castes, such as the Kamboh, Garha, and Muley Jat.
Like other Muslim communities in North India, they are undergoing social change, and become more orthodox.
The main religion of the Kababish is Sunni Muslim, but it is said that due to their nomadic lifestyle where water is short they are not strict followers of their religion's practices.
The Kabaria, sometimes pronounced as Kabariya are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, mainly in the Awadh region.
The Kachar intermarry with some neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Attar, Faqir and Pinjara, although most marriages are within the community.
The Kankali are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
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However, there is little interaction with neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Muker and Baghban.
The Kanmailia are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Kauman is a typical village name used by some regencies and municipalities in Central and East Java to name an area where pious Muslim communities are concentrated.
Kumara Rama died at a very young age battling the Muslim armies of Tughlaq and was the basis for the foundation of the Vijayanagar empire.He belonged to the Nayaka community and was a cousin of Harihara and Bukka.
However, to say that the LNM was a Muslim organization would be a gross oversimplification.
: Lady Francine, a French woman known as one of the two most beautiful women in Poland (the other lives with Conrad, but as an heretical Muslim can't or won't marry him) maneuvers Conrad into marrying her.
In 2001 it was reported that tensions were running high in Luton, a town with a 30,000 Muslim community accounting for 20% of the towns population.
Local Muslim tradition holds that the prophet Muhammad had sat on or leaned against a stone at Mahajjah and that the stone would ease the pain of childbirth.
Milkana G. had become known for her article on yoga and religion, where she made a comparison between Muslim prayers and yoga positions.
He was treated by a Muslim physician named Şinasi (Shinasi or Schinasi in European languages) and regained his health.
The Multani Lohar are Muslim community found in the state of Gujarat in India.
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Like other Gujarati Muslim groups, they have a caste council, the Multani Lohar Jamat, which is responsible for the welfare of the community.
According to their own traditions, they are descended from early Muslim settlers to India.
In 1923 the chief secretary to the high commissioner, Colonel Wyndham Deedes, ordered investigations into some of the leaders of the Muslim National Associations.
It had a population of 65 households and 25 bachelors, all Muslim.
On 26 April 2013, eleven British Muslims were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 40 months to life imprisonment.
With rapid urbanization, many Rayee have also taken unskilled jobs as rickshaw pulling, and form an important part of the Bihari Muslim population in Calcuta.
The Saiqalgar generally marry within the community but there are instances of marriage with neighbouring Muslim groups such as the Attar, Maner, Patwager and Tamboli.
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The Saiqalgar are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.
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Little is known as to the origin of this community, other than the fact that they are one of a number of Muslim artisan groups found in Maharashtra.
As the Imam for the capital Sheikh Khalid Hafiz played an important role in the development of both the local urban Muslim community and the broader New Zealand Islamic minority the 1980s and 1990s.
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He also provided important spiritual and religious guidance and leadership to the growing Muslim community - especially in areas without full-time ulema - that often required lateral thinking and patience.
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Sheikh Khalid Hafiz (Sheikh Khalid Kamal Abdul Hafiz; 1 December 1938 – 6 December 1999) was an Indian-born Imam who served as the senior religious advisor to the New Zealand Muslim minority over 1982 to 1999.
Sheikh Sarwari are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
It had a population of 73 households and 40 bachelors, all Muslim.
Along with her brother Eyad and her African American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault lines between Muslim and American.
When Arab fortune hunter Faris Jawad and his archaeologist sister Dania receive a call to visit Morocco they embark on an exotic adventure throughout the Middle East on the trail of the famous Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta (1304-1369 A.D.).
During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim Turks from the region.
This is home to some of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Java and it is likely the wayang golek grew in popularity through telling the wayang menak stories of Amir Hamza, the uncle of Muhammad.
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It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 44 households and 20 bachelors.
Hailing from Nso, a kingdom located in the North West Province of Cameroon, Ajume Wingo received much of his early education from Christian and Muslim missionaries, and from a Bedouin teacher (whose title of Mallam Gargari translates to "invincible teacher") known for his toughness and draconian style of discipline.
The All India Jamhur Muslim League was formed in 1940, to counter the Lahore resolution, passed by the All-India Muslim League, for a separate Pakistan based on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Two nation theory.
Bangladesh Awami League, named All Pakistan Awami Muslim League until 1953
The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.
A Hausa Muslim who hails from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria's June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Religions practiced in Benin include the following: Christian (42.8%), Muslim (24.4%), Vodoun (17.3%), and “other” (15.5%).
This distrust came in part from the Chadian Armed Forces (FAT) incapacity to deal with the rebellion that was inflaming the Muslim north from when the rebel insurgent group FROLINAT had been formed in 1966.
On this subject, at the Council of Four on 17 May 1919, he introduced representatives of Muslim India (including the Aga Khan) and urged that Muslim peoples were beginning to see the Conference as "taking sides against Islam".
Again, during the Muslim persecution, in 850, after reading a passage of the works of St. Epiphanius he decided to refrain for a time from saying Mass that he might better defend the cause of the martyrs; however, at the request of his bishop, Saul of Córdoba, he put aside his scruples.
The village is named after the Muslim Peer Baba Hussainiwala ji (Saint Hussaini wala or Saint "who is of Husain"), whose tomb is in the Border Security Force headquarters at Hussainiwala.
Ifat Sultanate, a Muslim kingdom in the northern Horn of Africa.
At certain Malaysian institutions such as the International Islamic University, wearing of the tudung is mandatory; however for non-Muslim students this usually amounts to a loosely worn piece of cloth draped over the back of the head.
Muslim fundamental tenets of belief and practices are also discussed as is the development of Islamic theology, law and Sufism.
This building has served as a place of worship for Muslims for over a decade.
In a non-Muslim context, Islamic studies generally refers to the historical study of Islam: Islamic civilization, Islamic history and historiography, Islamic law, Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy.
Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.
Jinnah Muslim School & College is a school situated at Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Kalapahad or Kala Pahar (Black Mountain) was the title of an Iconoclast Muslim general of Mughal governor Sultan Sulaiman Karrani of Bengal.
The BBC reports that some attendees have joined to reconnect with their families' culture and homeland; others, with no Arab or Muslim background, because they believe learning the language will give them a valuable skill.
Bibemi, since its 1770 foundation, until the higher Muslim title Sultan was assumed
After a 2013 interview with Muslim-American scholar Reza Aslan, Green received heavy criticism for her line of questions.
In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his home in Indonesia – the original Khoi name for the area was not recorded.
The Muslim forces however continued to raid their Gaul neighbours to the north, reaching as far as Autun.
In addition to administration councils’ structures being reformed, a Cadastral Department in each province was responsible for registering every male resident, whether they be Muslim or non-Muslim, Ottoman or foreign resident.
Mohammad Salim Al-Awa (born December 22, 1942) (Secretary General of the International Union for Muslim Scholars) Egyptian Islamist thinker, widely considered to belong to the moderate Islamic democratic strain
Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.
In the 1953 bloody Lahore riots, religious extremists called for Zafarullah Khan's expulsion due to his adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith.
The ruins (bricked building, bath, Muslim graves) are situated in Penza Oblast near the modern town of Narovchat in the upper stream of Moksha River.
After his death, reports continued to surface of changes in curriculum and power struggles at the Dar al-Hadith, though these rumors were dispelled a few years later by contemporary Muslim scholar Rabee Al-Madkhali.
The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.
It was built above a pre-existing Muslim mosque as a simple parish church, and was later converted into a main church by order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281.
Qutbism (also called Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah) is a faction within Sunni Islam, with roots to the thoughts of the late Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim, and figurehead of the Muslim Brotherhood (he was executed in 1966).
During Rama Varma's reign, the Muslim general Sardar Khan captured the city of Cochin and established his residence at Thrissur.
In 2000, Nawoon Marcellus, a member of Fanmi Lavalas from San Raphael, became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Haïti.
On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.
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The Burmese central government refused to grant a separate Muslim state in the Mayu region where two townships (Buthidaung and Maungdaw) lie.
He then joined Hizbul Mujahideen founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from Hizbul Mujahideen was replaced by Muhammad Yousuf Shah who then adopted nom de guerre "Sayeed Salahudeen", named after Saladin, the 12th century Muslim political and military leader, who fought in the Crusades.
Obasanjo sacked governor Joshua Dariye, accusing him of failing to act to end a cycle of violence between the Plateau State's Muslim and Christian communities.
In 2013 Klein received a GAP award from the Artist Trust to assist with travel and living for a project in Ahmedabad, India, creating an architectural textile together with Muslim women who are members of the Sarkhej Roza Mosque community.
alternate spelling of Siddiqui, last name common among some Muslim groups in South Asia and the Middle East
Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.
Coogan believes that the program would allow Israel to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans and Muslim-Americans who travel to Israel.
As a Muslim, he became a symbol of India's inclusive secularism.
Zinda Rood is a 4 volume biographical work of Justice Javed Iqbal on Muhammad Iqbal, the famous Muslim poet-philosopher.