Among Saladin's admirers who produced personal biographies are the historians: Qadi al-Fadil from Ascalon ; Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, and Bahā ' al-Dīn, a jurist from Mosul.

Among the admirers of Zeno was king Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedonia, who, whenever he came to Athens, would visit Zeno.

Among its admirers was Tennyson.

Among the admirers of Verlaine's work was the Russian language poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

Among Garrick's admirers long after his death was noted magician and stage performer Harry Houdini, who owned and treasured Garrick's personal diary as part of the huge theatrical library Houdini catalogued and maintained late in life in his home in New York City.

" Among his admirers was Victor Hugo.

Among her admirers were Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz and, most importantly for her, Felix Mendelssohn.

Among the film's admirers was Roger Ebert, who wrote in his review, " film has been criticized in some quarters because Mulligan made it too beautiful, they say, and too nostalgic.

Among its more famous admirers were H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Aldiss and Doris Lessing.

Among Godowsky's admirers were such distinguished pianists as Vladimir de Pachmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff, who, according to Godowsky's daughter Dagmar, idolized her father's music and performances.

Among the admirers is Eve, a young woman who says that she, alone and friendless in New York, has found solace in watching her hero, Margo, perform.

" Among his other admirers were Roger Keyes and Winston Churchill.

Among her most fervent admirers was Paolo Giordano I Orsini, duke of Bracciano, one of the most powerful men in Rome.

Among the admirers of the song was the Naushad who reportedly said, " Let me have this ghazal and take all my compositions in return " upon hearing it.

Among well known admirers of his work were Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Among his many admirers and friends were Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and President Andrew Johnson.

Among his readers and admirers were Thomas à Kempis and St. Peter Canisius.

Among the most controversial verses of the Bible is what some consider an explicit reference that supports the doctrine of the trinity, the Comma Johanneum, ( 1 John 5: 7 – 8 ).

Among his most popular writings were a series of animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming devices.

Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III ( 1688 ), an epic work numbering 900 + pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative ; editions of Euripides ( 1694 ) and of Homer ( 1711 ), also one of Anacreon ( 1705 ) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish.

Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the " absurdities " of Aesop from conversation at banquets ; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables " which he knew " into verses.

Among Śrīpati's works are: Dhikotidakarana written in 1039, a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses ; Dhruvamanasa written in 1056, a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits ; Siddhantasekhara a major work on astronomy in 19 chapters ; and Ganitatilaka an incomplete arithmetical treatise in 125 verses based on a work by Sridhara.

Among those groups that did reject naskh were the Mu ' tazili and Zaidiyah, on the rationalist grounds that the word of God could not contain contradictions, and the much later Ahmadīs, who argued that all Qur ' ānic verses have equal validity, in keeping with their emphasis on the " unsurpassable beauty and unquestionable validity of the Qur ' ān ".

Among his important works, the most important is the Tantraloka (" The Divine Light of Tantra "), a work in verses which is a majestic synthesis of the whole tradition of monistic Shaivism.

Among them are a number of āgama texts ( i. e., non-Mahāyāna sūtras corresponding to scriptures found in the sutta section of the Pāli canon ), didactic verses ( including a version of the Dharmapada and of the * Arthapada, corresponding to the Pāli Aṭṭhakavagga ), a biography of the Buddha, and several Mahāyāna sūtras, of which some of the most famous are the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa, the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha ( dealing with the Pure Land of Amitābha ), the Shorter Perfection of Wisdom scripture ( corresponding to the Sanskrit Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā ), and an early version of what subsequently became the Buddhāvataṃsaka.

Among his earliest verses are lines prefixed to Graphice ( 1658 ) by Sir William Sanderson ( the Sanderson Baronets ), a work containing a description of the art of miniature painting, based on Edward Norgate ’ s writings.

Among his large collection of oriental manuscripts is the Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole Manuscript, containing over a thousand verses and a long text in prose.

Among those are the " Five Lotuses " and " Five Swords ", short and intermediate-length commentaries on the essence of wisdom and language ; the Beacon of Certainty which is perhaps the most essential of Mipham's original writings ; and in many of Mipham's liturgies ( such as those of Gesar ), his essays of practical advice ( gtams-tshogs ), his verses of praise to Manjushri, Sarasvati and other persons, historical or otherwise ( bstod-tshogs ), and in one of his most famous compositions which is an ' aspiration ' ( smon-lam ), Mipham makes clear — either explicitly or using coded language — the centrality of Dzogchen / Great Perfection to his view, meditation, practice and experiential realization.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Among the spectators was the noted exotic dancer, Patti Waggin who is Mrs. Don Rudolph when off the stage.

Among stage performances was a starring role in `` Golden Arrow '' directed by Noel Coward.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

Among the proposed etymologies is the Hurrian and Hittite divinity, Aplu, who was widely invoked during the " plague years ".

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.

Among a few kabbalists, it was posited that some human souls could end up being reincarnated into non-human bodies.

Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

Among the Visigoths settled in Lower Moesia, the situation was ripe for rebellion.

Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).

Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead.

Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

Among his collaborators was Giovanni Maria Butteri and his main pupil was Giovanni Bizzelli.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

Among his companions he had made enemies and he was destined to take no share in the crusade he had joined.

Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.

Among his many philanthropic efforts, the establishment of public libraries throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking countries was especially prominent.