According to the Schechter Letter, the Khazar ruler Joseph responded to the persecution of Jews by " doing away with many Christians " and Romanos retaliated by inciting Oleg of Novgorod ( called Helgu in the letter ) against Khazaria.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk ( probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo ) was the capital of the Slavic Krivich tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

According to the KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky in 2008, Zakayev was placed # 2 on the FSB assassination list, between Berezovsky and Litvinenko.

According to East Slavic chronicles, Oleg was supreme ruler of the Rus ' from 882 to 912.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg was a relative ( likely brother-in-law ) of the first ruler, Rurik, and was entrusted by Rurik to take care of both his kingdom and his young son Ingvar, or Igor.

According to the chronicle, the Byzantines attempted to poison Oleg, but the Rus ' leader demonstrated his oracular powers by refusing to drink the cup of poisoned wine.

According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 912 and his successor, Igor of Kiev, ruled from then until his assassination in 945.

According to one chronicle, Yaropolk's brother Oleg killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander Sveneld.

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko

According to Oleg Kalugin, " the Soviet intelligence was really unparalleled.

According to chronicles, prince Oleg who in the 9th century with his Rus Vikings had captured Constantinople, had nailed his shield to the cities gates, which had a large red Swastika painted on it.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 913 and his successor, the prince Igor, ruled from then until his murder in 944.

According to Oleg Gordievsky ( the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect ) and Pavel Sudoplatov ( former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR ), Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent.

According to the Primary Chronicle, the Severians, having paid tribute to the Khazars, along with the neighboring Polans, were conquered by Oleg of Novgorod, who incorporated their lands into the new principality of Kievan Rus '.

According to the historian Oleg Platonov, the assassination attempt was made on June 29 / July 12, 1914.

In 1961, Eugenia Sheppard announced in the New York Herald Tribune " According to Tobe's most recent coast to coast survey, the best known name in American fashion is Oleg Cassini.

According to Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, when in late 1959 Fidel Castro's intelligence chief Ramiro Valdés contacted the KGB in Mexico City, the Soviets sent over one hundred mostly Spanish-speaking advisors, including Enrique Líster Forján, to organize the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Cuba.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg of Novgorod ( Helgi of Holmgard ) conquered Kiev in 882.

According to a late chronicle, Oleg Yaroslavich was appointed by Duke Casimir II of Poland ( 1177 – 1194 ) to rule in Halych, but the Galicians poisoned him and invited Roman to be their prince.

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko

According to KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, Jones provided intelligence to the Soviet Union in return for money.

According to Alexander Benois, Grabar practiced an unacceptably patronizing tone and at the same time, had absolutely no sense of humour.

" According to Baranovsky and Khlebnikova, the decision was influenced by his mother's death ; Grabar the artist shifted his attention to problems of age, aging and death.

According to Hebrew University professor Ruth Kark, Vogt's approach was typical of European architects who, commissioned to design buildings in Jerusalem, incorporated " Eastern-style domes, arches, various kinds of different-colored stone, and interior decorations with religious symbos and inscriptions ," in buildings whose strict symmetry marks them indelibly as European.

According to this theory, onion domes were strictly utilitarian, as they prevented snow from piling on the roof.

According to Trubetskoy, drums crowned by tapering domes were deliberately scored to resemble candles, thus manifesting a certain aesthetic and religious attitude.

According to Roy Gutman, after the failed counter-coup, this " opened a profound and long-lasting schism " among the Islamist and Islamic movement.

According to scholars, dhimmis had their rights fully protected in their communities, but as citizens in the Islamic state, had certain restrictions.

According to Islamic thought, this comes naturally because faith is an instinct of the human soul.

According to the traditional Islamic view, the Qur ' an ( Koran ) began with revelations to Muhammad ( when he was 40 years old ) in 610.

According to legend, the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, located at the south-west of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, Spain, protected the chalice of the Last Supper from the Islamic invaders of the Iberian Peninsula.

* According to Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, sons inherit twice as much as daughters.

According to Islamic tradition, during the reign of Isa ( the Qur ' anic name for Jesus ) people will live an extremely peaceful life filled with prosperity and abundance.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to Islamic tradition, Moses is buried at Maqam El-Nabi Musa, Jericho.

According to the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, the individual who built the mosque has a stronger claim to the title of imam, but this view is not shared by the other schools.

According to the Hanafi and Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, appointment of a prayer leader for Friday service is mandatory because otherwise the prayer is invalid.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

According to Islamic philosophy of war, the areas under Islamic rule were to be abodes of peace and the other areas abodes of war.

According to the Islamic jurist Al-Ghazali ( Algazel, 1058 – 1111 ), the government was also expected to store up food supplies in every region in case a disaster or famine occurred.

According to Islamic history, the Israelites, after the time of the prophet Moses, wanted a king to rule over their country.

According to Islamic tradition, Isa's descent will be in the midst of wars fought by the Mahdi ( lit.

According to Islamic texts, the prophet Ibrahim ( Abraham ) was thrown into the fire here.

According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad is said to have invoked Allah by a number of Names.

* According to Islamic belief, the archangel Gabriel first appears to Muhammad, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra ( al -` Alaq ), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur ' an ( approximate date ).

According to Persian tradition, as reported by 11th-century ethnographer Mahmud of Kashgar and various other traditional Islamic scholars and historians, the name " Turk " stems from Tur, one of the sons of Japheth ( see Turan ).

According to the famous Islamic legal scholar Ibn Qayyim ( 1292 – 1350 ), non-Muslims had the right to engage in such religious practices even if it offended Muslims, under the conditions that such cases not be presented to Islamic Sharia courts and that these religious minorities believed that the practice in question is permissible according to their religion.

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

According to one theory, increasing military and cultural contacts with the Muslim world, as Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily in 1090, the Crusades which began in 1096 and the Islamic presence in Spain brought the knowledge of pointed arches to Medieval Europe.