In any study of Angkorian architecture, the emphasis is necessarily on religious architecture, since all the remaining Angkorian buildings are religious in nature.

The religious architecture of Angkor has characteristic structures, elements, and motifs, which are identified in the glossary below.

The prang is the tall finger-like spire, usually richly carved, common to much Khmer religious architecture.

The wealth of Chicago's religious heritage is evident in its many noted examples of sacred architecture and institutions.

It is no longer in use for religious purposes, but it is open to visitors and a splendid example of Mauresque architecture.

The architecture highlighted Imhotep ’ s abilities as an architect, a religious priest and an astronomer.

In general, the term modernism encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the " traditional " forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.

This style was heavily influenced by Byzantine religious architecture with its use of large central domes.

The influence of Burmes architecture on Sri Lanka ` s religious building in Polonnaruwa is also evident.

As such, Rococo decoration was able to be incorporated in sacred architecture, although, due to the style's garishness, even when religious motifs were used the results might not have always been pleasing.

Believers have continually looked at the story of Ann Lee as a cornerstone of the theological architecture that has distinguished their church from other American religious groups.

They were an elaborate civilization with advanced architecture and religious belief.

In the 16th century, Poitiers impressed visitors because of its large size, and important features, including " royal courts, university, prolific printing shops, wealthy religious institutions, cathedral, numerous parishes, markets, impressive domestic architecture, extensive fortifications, and castle.

Though most would consider concrete the Roman contribution most relevant to the modern world, the Empire's style of architecture can still be seen throughout Europe and North America in the arches and domes of many governmental and religious buildings.

The church of Santa Sofia is a circular Lombard edifice dating to c. 760, now modernized, of small proportions, and is one of the main examples of religious Lombard architecture.

For the period before 1800, the history of landscape gardening ( later called landscape architecture ) is largely that of master planning and garden design for manor houses, palaces and royal properties, religious complexes, and centers of government.

Both are excellent examples of French religious and secular architecture of the period.

Historical Angkor was more than a site for religious art and architecture.

The beginning of the Angkorian period was also marked by changes in religious architecture.

Eight of were listed by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in 1999, for their religious architecture and timber construction traditions.

For many Muslims, i ' thar must be practiced as a religious obligation during specific Islamic holidays.

Absorbing this heady atmosphere, Yahya and Abu Imran fell into conversation on the state of the faith in their western homelands, and Yahya expressed his disappointment on the lack of religious education and negligence of Islamic law among his southern Sanhaja people.

Hanjour's brother later explained that, frustrated at not finding a job, Hanjour " increasingly turned his attention toward religious texts and cassette tapes of militant Islamic preachers ".

Human portrayals can be found in early Islamic cultures with varying degrees of acceptance by religious authorities.

As was common during the years of Islamic expansion from Arabia, religious tolerance was practiced.

An astronomical calendar is based on ongoing observation ; examples are the religious Islamic calendar and the old religious Jewish calendar in the time of the Second Temple.

In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes such as apostasy in Islamic nations ( the formal renunciation of the state religion ).

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

In all cases, however, sharia ( Islamic religious law ) calls for burial of the body, preceded by a simple ritual involving bathing and shrouding the body, followed by salah ( prayer ).

In nations where Islamic law is the basis of civil law, but has not been codified, as is the case of some Arab countries in the Middle East, fatwā by the national religious leadership are debated prior to being issued.

In 2001, religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwā against the children's game Pokémon, after finding that it encouraged gambling, and was based on the theory of evolution, " a Jewish-Darwinist theory, that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles ".

Islamic scholars have said that, while male circumcision is a sunna, or religious obligation, female genital modification is not required, and several have issued a fatwa against Type III FGM.

The Al-Azhar Supreme Council of Islamic Research, the highest religious authority in Egypt, issued a statement that FGM had no basis in core Islamic law, and this enabled the government to outlaw it entirely.

The Shiite and Sunni religious conflicts since the 7th century created an opening for radical ideologists, such as Ali Shariati ( 1933 – 77 ), to merge social revolution with Islamic fundamentalism, as exemplified by Iran in the 1970s.

Some Muslim religious organizations cite this work in support of the Islamic view of Jesus ; in particular, the Islamic apologists Rashid Rida in Egypt and Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in Pakistan gave it qualified acceptance.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

The scientific research of the Islamic scientists is often overlooked due to the conflict of the Crusades and " it's possible, too, that many scholars in the Renaissance later played down or even disguised their connection to the Middle East for both political and religious reasons.

" Nowadays, as Hezbollah scholar Magnus Ranstorp reports, Hezbollah does indeed have a formal governing structure, and in keeping with the principle of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ( velayat-e faqih ), it " concentrate ... all authority and powers " in its religious leaders, whose decisions then " flow from the ulama down the entire community.

Further, Islamic Jihadist-of which Al Qaeda in Iraq is a member-continued to use terror and extreme acts of violence against collaborationist populations to advance their religious and political agenda ( s ).

Many of those described as " Islamists " oppose the use of the term, and claim that their political beliefs and goals are simply an expression of Islamic religious belief.