It is said to have sparked the conversion of ‘ Amr ibn al -‘ Āṣ after he recited it to the self-proclaimed prophet Musaylimah and he responded with a " surah " about the hyrax, which ‘ Amr ibn al -‘ As rejected as absurd.

Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.

If Christians were persecuted, it is likely to have been part of Domitian ’ s larger policy suppressing all opposition to his self-proclaimed divinity.

He is a self-proclaimed genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutch's borrowed skill, a talent for all things mechanical.

* In 1998, Bell spoke with John Titor, a self-proclaimed time traveler from 2063 who made all kinds of fantastic predictions and discussed time travel.

Over the years, FSB and affiliated state security organizations have killed all " presidents " of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria including Dzhokhar Dudaev, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, Aslan Maskhadov, and Abdul-Khalim Saidullaev.

In spite of being designed as a sketch comedy television program, the series is set in a fictional universe in which it also is broadcast as a popular television comedy as evidenced through staged mishaps with members of the viewing audience and performers featured the program and comedic sub-plots involving Amanda's unhealthily obsessed, nerdy, feckless self-proclaimed " Number One Fan " Penelope Tate, who has prioritized devising schemes that will assist her in achieving her lifelong goal of meeting Amanda before all else and her multiple failed attempts at landing a meeting with the hostess of the series ( as a gag, Amanda Bynes actually portrays Penelope in reality and the pair are never shown onscreen together ).

" was a self-proclaimed nature lover in a country with the largest percentage of untrammeled virgin jungle of all the nations in the Congo basin.

After the overthrow of Patassé, self-proclaimed President François Bozizé declared an amnesty for all those involved in the attempted coup d ' état of 2001.

The flier, a self-proclaimed " Ehrlich-Steele Democrats Official Voter Guide ," though the candidates were actually Republican, was a sample ballot endorsing Ehrlich and Steele with a list of other politicians, all Democratic.

Although he first believes that she is crazy, it is interesting to note that, despite being a self-proclaimed atheist, when things that the muses tell her start coming true Aaron begins indulging his sister's claims, even to the extent of helping her try to rid herself of all the animals that have talked to her.

Indeed, there are many socialists who strongly oppose certain ( or all ) self-proclaimed socialist republics.

In 1993, Krasnovodsk was renamed by President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov, after his self-proclaimed title Türkmenbaşy (" Leader of all Turkmen ").

The Dubliners also gained popularity amongst famous musicians such as Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, who were all self-proclaimed Dubliners fans.

Lord Zedd was the self-proclaimed, all-powerful " Emperor of Evil " and " sworn enemy of all that is good and decent ".

The Wang Zheng of Qin 嬴政 ( note that at the time the Bo of Qin was self-proclaimed as " Wang of Qin ") eventually removed the Zhou household and defeated all other feudal lords and funded the first empire.

Eldon's work sat well with that of Lee & Herring, and he continued to work with them on all their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy, providing a multitude of characters, most notably: the jelly-obsessed False Rod Hull ; and Simon Quinlank, the self-proclaimed " king of hobbies ", who would always be accompanied by a flask of " weak lemon drink ".

A Bible Answer's website calls for Camping to resign from the Family Radio board, citing " the self-proclaimed expert on the Bible has brought reproach upon Christ, the Bible, and the church ," and adds " After taking the money of his supporters, let Harold give up all he has, to show he believes what he is preaching.

( Their self-proclaimed goal is to " serve any media to any networked device doing all the necessary conversions to overcome the limitations of any given device.

He is an inventor and self-proclaimed genius who lives in a small town where he comes up with all sorts of inventions.

As of today, this self-proclaimed " largest march in U. S. history " which was primarily organized by Mexican American organizations, Chicano activists, and fueled through a large network of active Internet users, L. A. Spanish language television, and Spanish language news radio coverage, is still virtually ignored by American mainstream ( English language ) news media and all textbooks of the American educational system.

Gog's desires is to kill all self-proclaimed false gods to make way for himself.

Jeanne de la Motte, Rétaux de Villette, Nicole d ' Oliva and Count Cagliostro ( a self-proclaimed holy man who had helped Jeanne persuade the Cardinal to purchase the necklace ) were all arrested.

Doctor Nefarious Tropy, the self-proclaimed master of time, becomes accessible as a playable character if the player beats all the time records in Race Time Trial Mode.

After the death of Sultan Arobero, several Sultans succeeded him but are all self-proclaimed because there were no confirmation of the Sultan of Maguindanao.

While pearl button production levels in Beulah would never have been competitive with the self-proclaimed " Pearl Button Capital of the World " at Muscatine, Iowa at the height of industry in that city in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Beulah shares in the rich heritage of this industry.

His experience with the French, first as a client, then as the self-proclaimed leader of the " royal crusade for independence ", apparently led him to conclude that the United States, like France, would eventually be forced to leave Southeast Asia.

Although he had originally assumed Edna's debut Melbourne appearance would be a one-off, Humphries decided to revive " Olympic Hostess " for Phillip Street and its success helped to launch what became a fifty-year career for the self-proclaimed " Housewife Megastar ".

On January 5 edition of Raw, the self-proclaimed Sheriff of Raw Stone Cold Steve Austin announced that Triple H would defend the title against Michaels in a Last Man Standing match at Royal Rumble.

In the Raymond Newsreader sketches, Bungalow regulars such as Melvin O Doom were invited to discuss the severity of the situation ( relating to the cartoons ) and often cartoon characters ' self-proclaimed biggest fans would make an appearance.

The State of Westmoreland was a proposed self-proclaimed state that would have seceded from Pennsylvania.

Junkyard Dog protested Race's self-proclaimed monarchy in the WWF and stated there would never be a complete ruler in the WWF, which led to a match on Saturday Night's Main Event, in which the King and his manager both tried to make Junkyard Dog bow for them.

Within three weeks, Emperor Napoleon III would be captured by the enemy and his regime overthrown by a self-proclaimed Government for National Defence.

To disclaim responsibility for the debt, he would have to deny his self-proclaimed and still far-from-universally accepted sovereignty.

The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured ( note that by some, Andronikos not only survived, but also managed to escape to the then self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus ).

Gaddafi also aided Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed emperor of the short-lived Central African Empire.

The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.

The contents of this first autobiography also touched on a self-proclaimed " identity crisis " that seemed to haunt Nimoy throughout his career.

There is also a second commentary with fellow filmmaker and self-proclaimed Romero fan, Roger Avary.

After the conquest of Toledo he also self-proclaimed victoriosissimo rege in Toleto, et in Hispania et Gallecia.

He makes occasional appearances on This Week in Tech, where he is a self-proclaimed " nerd ", and also participated in the Consumer Electronics Show 2010.

Artaxerxes V, also known as Bessus ( died summer 329 BC ) was a prominent Persian ( Iranian ) satrap of Bactria in Persia, and later self-proclaimed king of the Persian Empire.

In addition to styling itself " The Peanut Capital of the World ", Dothan is also the self-proclaimed " Hub of the Wiregrass ".

In addition to serving as president of his church, Strang also served as the self-proclaimed king of a now-defunct ecclesiastical monarchy he established on Beaver Island, Michigan, and also served 1 terms in the Michigan House of Representatives prior to his murder in 1856 at the hands of two disgruntled followers.

Later, in 1920 Tsuji was introduced to Dada and became a self-proclaimed first Dadaist of Japan, a title also claimed by Tsuji's contemporary, Takahashi Shinkichi ( 高橋 新吉 ).

Wu Zetian ( ( c. 625 – 705 ), also known as Wu Zhao or Wu Chao and as Wu-hou or Wu Hou (), and during the Tang Dynasty as Tian Hou ( 天后 ), Dynasty ), and in English translation as Empress Consort Wu, or the deprecated term " Empress Wu " was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed " Zhou Dynasty ", from 690 to 705 ; however, she had previous imperial positions, under both Taizong and his son Gaozong, of the Tang Dynasty, in China.

Jacob Frank ( יעקב פרנק Ya ' akov Frank, Jakob Frank ; ( 1726, Korolivka – December 10, 1791, Offenbach am Main ) was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob.

Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania () is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen.

The use of " The First " ordinal is also common to self-proclaimed ephemeral " kings " or " emperors ", such as Dessalines, Christophe and Soulouque in Haiti, Iturbide in Mexico, Zog in Albania, Bokassa in Central African Republic, or the adventurer Boris Skossyreff in Andorra.

Some of this sense of intrigue may be in part accidental, but it is also heightened by his cannily controlled application of a philosophy of fiction, a frequently self-proclaimed feature of the work.

Starckdeutsch ( literally, strong German, albeit with ck for k, as dictated by the phonetics of the variant ), also called Siegfriedsch and Kauderdeutsch, is an imagined language created by Matthias Koeppel, a German painter and poet and self-proclaimed Sprachkünstler ( artist of language ).

This is manifested in the way that the self-proclaimed moral figures ( the police, the clergy, even the President of the Republic ) are presented in this film, but also in the elevation of Alex Ponttin ( Michel Serrault ) to the status of a public hero at the end of the film.

The term was also used by Gabriele d ' Annunzio as dictator of the self-proclaimed Italian Regency of Carnaro in 1920, and most significantly by the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

* Penelope Taynt – Penelope Taynt ( also played by Amanda Bynes ) is Amanda's intelligent and mischievous self-proclaimed number one fan.

* Followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Sudanese self-proclaimed Mahdi, also known as Ansar

He was also a friend and self-proclaimed " look-alike " of famous Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme and author of seven children's books.