Because Islam is a religion that focuses very heavily on learning the central text of the Qur ' an, and because Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts.

Because of the involvement of human interpretation, the fiqh is considered fallible, and thus not a part of Sharia ( although scholars categorize it as Islamic law ).

Because it is a predominantly Islamic country, pork plays no role in Turkish cuisine.

Because of the Saudi government's religious policy and concern that historic sites could become the focus for idolatry, much of Medina's Islamic physical heritage has been destroyed since the beginning of Saudi rule.

Because the People of the Book recognize the God of Abraham as the one and only god, as do Muslims, and they practice revealed faiths based on divine ordinances, tolerance and autonomy is accorded to them in societies governed by sharia ( Islamic divine law ).

Because of this resistance, when the Arabs captured Ray, they ordered the town to be destroyed and ordered Farrukhan b. Zaynabi b. Kula to rebuild the town. The original Parliament Building built in the 1920s In the 10th century, Ray is described in detail in the work of Islamic geographers.

Because Islam forbids simply lending out money at interest ( see riba ), Islamic rules on transactions ( known as Fiqh al-Muamalat ) have been created to prevent this evil.

Because of Austria's history as a multinational empire that included the largely Islamic Bosnia, Sunni Islam has been taught side by side with Roman Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox classes since the 19th century.

Because of this similarity, as well as through the influence of Muslim culture and philosophy on the Jewish community within the Islamic world, there has been considerable and continued physical, theological, and political overlap between the two faiths in the subsequent 1, 400 years.

Because most of Malay people are muslims, Malay cuisine follows Islamic halal dietary law rigorously.

Because of these serious consequences, Muslims have traditionally been reluctant to practice takfir, that is, to pronounce professed Muslims as unbelievers ( even Muslims in violation of Islamic law ).

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Because Arcapita is an Islamic venture capital firm, pork products were removed from the menu after the sale ( as pork is not halal ) in 2005.

Because of this Islamic missionary activity, the remaining Hindu Tenggerese asked the Balinese Hindus for help by reforming their culture and religion closer to the Balinese.

The Iranian press is highly regulated, especially under the Press Law, which according to the UNHCR, “ forbids the publication of ideas that are contrary to Islamic principles or detrimental to public rights .” This includes imprisonment for “ propaganda ,” which remains undefined, and for offenses that are “ an insult to religion .” Because as many as 100 publications were shut down in the early 2000s, many sought alternative outlets for reporting and freedom of expression.

Because of these activities, he was unable to return to Iran and remained in the United States until the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Because of the pervasive sexual segregation of Egypt's Islamic society, men and women often practice their religion in different ways.

Because of his influence and in his memory the city became an important centre of spirituality and Islamic learning for the peoples of the Kazakh steppes.

Because few materials are available to the Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking communities, LADO emphasizes this aspect of Islamic dawah.

Because the government restricts educational opportunities for them, many pursue fundamental Islamic studies as their only educational option.

Because Islamic law forbade Muslims to enslave fellow Muslims, the Sultan's concubines were generally of Christian origin.

Because of its materialism and atheism, Dr. Jamali opined: " Communism is the greatest internal and external antagonist of the Islamic religion.

Because it is a compound of the Greek words κριτής, krites (" judge ") and ἄρχω, árkhō (" to rule "), its use has expanded to cover rule by judges in the modern sense, as well, as in the case of the Somalia, ruled by judges with the tradition of xeer, as well as the Islamic Courts Union.

Because it is so large a state, with marked contrasts in population density, the organization of the New York co-operative offers a cross-section of how the plan works.

Because this protein gp120 is necessary for HIV to attach, it does not change across different strains and is a point of vulnerability across the entire range of the HIV variant population.

Because there is no selection pressure for sight in this environment, any number of genetic abnormalities that give rise to the damage or loss of eyes could proliferate among the population with no effect on the fitness of the population.

Because the islands cannot produce enough goods to support the population, about 90 % of their food and consumer goods must be imported.

Because a geographically dispersed population can be expensive to survey, greater economy than simple random sampling can be achieved by treating several respondents within a local area as a cluster.

Because a different population of anterior horn cells is stimulated with each stimulation, each F wave have a slightly different shape, amplitude and latency.

Because of this sensitivity to infant mortality, simple life expectancy at age zero can be subject to gross misinterpretation, leading one to believe that a population with a low overall life expectancy will necessarily have a small proportion of older people.

Because of this, it was projected that between 20, 000 and 40, 000 fewer Mongolians ( 0. 7 % and 1. 4 % of the population respectively ) will be lifted out of poverty, than would have been the case without the global financial crisis.

Because Mongolia is sparsely populated and a significant portion of the population still lives a nomadic lifestyle, it has been difficult for many traditional ICTs to make headway into Mongolian society.

Because policies were designed to benefit white settlers and the Portuguese homeland, little attention was paid to the integration of Mozambique's indigenous population, its economic infrastructure, or the skills of its indigenous rural population.

Because of bad relations between the latter Byzantine Empire and the states of western Europe as epitomized by Loukas Notaras's famous remark " Better the Sultan's turban than the Cardinal's Hat ", the majority of the Orthodox population accepted Ottoman rule as preferable to Venetian rule.

Because of the low social status of immigrant workers, contemporary writers and media had little trouble portraying opium dens as seats of vice, white slavery, gambling, knife and revolver fights, a source for drugs causing deadly overdoses, with the potential to addict and corrupt the white population.

Because at least half the population of atoms must be excited from the ground state to obtain a population inversion, the laser medium must be very strongly pumped.

Because the statute in question had not apportioned income taxes on income from property by population, the statute was ruled unconstitutional.

Because of its associations with democratic institutions, rhetoric is commonly said to flourish in open and democratic societies with rights of free speech, free assembly, and political enfranchisement for some portion of the population.

Because about 70 % of South Korea's land area is mountainous and the population is concentrated in the lowland areas, actual population densities were in general greater than the average.

Because of the huge economic profits that could be had from these fisheries, the local authorities offered incentives to the Sami – faced with their own population pressures – to settle on the newly vacant farms.

Because a portion of the South ’ s population contained rebels that were unhappy with the abolishment of slavery, that region of the United States was not well suited for colored people.

Because of the high number of unaccounted emigrants, the recent increase of emigration and the death toll from AIDS, the total population might be declining to as low as 8 million according to some estimates.

Because of this, epidemic or pandemic diseases, which depend on a constant influx of humans who have not developed an immune response, tended to burn out after their first run through a population.