Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

It is implied he lost his virginity in " Holy Cornholio ," as Beavis, who was being worshipped by a group of fanatics at the time, passed on his followers to Stewart, who took him to have sex with the women of the cult.

Brigham Young took Smith's advice and led his followers, known in modern times as the Mormon pioneers, to Nebraska and then in 1847 to what became the Utah Territory.

She took into account both the segmental structure ( such as sounds, syllables, phrases ) and the supra-segmental elements ( rhythm, accent, intonation ), and concluded that there was no distinction between what was practiced by the Pentecostal Protestants and the followers of other religions.

Nayler and his followers refused to remove their hats while Fox prayed, which Fox took as both a personal slight and a bad example.

His followers took two-thirds of the legislature's lower house and all of the seats in the Senate.

In the 1170s Hugh de Moreville and his followers took refuge there after assassinating Thomas Becket.

" The Montoneros took their name from the pejorative term used by the 19th-century elite to discredit the mounted followers of the popular caudillos.

In 1125, accompanied by an armed following, Pons took possession of Cluny Abbey, melted down the treasures stored in the monastery, and paid his followers, who continued to terrorise the monks and the villages dependent upon the abbey.

A modified form of this wilayat al-faqih system was adopted after Khomeini and his followers took power, and Khomeini was the Islamic Republic's first " Guardian " or Supreme Leader.

The followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the name " Republicans "; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.

The other group were the followers of Lord Chatham, who, as the great political hero of the Seven Years ' War, generally took a stance of opposition to party and faction.

Mieszko II's half-brother Bezprym took the government of Poland and began a cruel persecution against the followers of the former King.

It was divided into three main ( infantry ) formations, a force of light cavalry, and the camp followers ( who took part at the end of the battle ).

Their combined forces overwhelmed the Normans at York and took control of Northumbria, but a small seaborne raid which Edgar led into Lindsey ended in disaster and he escaped with only a handful of followers to rejoin the main army.

Together with a small group of followers, he made his way to the abandoned fortress of Masada where he continued his resistance to the Romans until 73 CE, when the Romans took the fortress and, according to Josephus, found that most of its defenders had committed suicide rather than surrender.

Bothwell and 24 followers took 6000 crowns of English money destined to be used against Guise from the Laird of Ormiston on Halloween 1559 at an ambush near Haddington.

He took a significant number of his followers with him, mainly from the officially-disbanded Portadown unit.

Five months after the surgery, with his health continuing to deteriorate, followers of his philosophy of Aesthetic Realism say that Siegel took his life.

As part of the agreement, Coddington and his followers took control of the southern side of the island.

He took his land which he assigned to the Dorians, his followers.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

Arminius's followers, not wanting to adopt their leader's name, called themselves the Remonstrants.

The fact that the name occurs on these gems in connection with representations of figures with the head of a cock, a lion, or an ass, and the tail of a serpent was formerly taken in the light of what Irenaeus says about the followers of Basilides:

Because much physical and spiritual violence was done to Jews in the name of Jesus and his followers, and because evangelism is still an active aspect of many church's activities, many Jews are uncomfortable with discussing Jesus and treat him as a non-person.

and those followers who " chant the name of the Lord " are cleared as outlined thus: " Her account is cleared by the Righteous Judge of Dharma, when she chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

This is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas, meaning " Hæsta's people ", " the family / followers of Hæsta ".

The Khmer Rouge () literally translated as Red Khmers was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.

Winstanley and his followers protested in the name of a radical Christianity against the economic distress that followed the Civil War and against the inequality that the grandees of the New Model Army seemed intent on preserving.

In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.

Uniquely among the followers of Jesus, she is specified by name ( though not consistently by any one gospel ) as a witness to three key events: Jesus ' crucifixion, his burial, and the discovery of his tomb to be empty.

The name Meher Baba means " Compassionate Father " in Persian and was given to him by his first followers.

His early followers gave him the name " Meher Baba ," meaning Compassionate Father.

Based on the name of that book, early followers of founder Joseph Smith, Jr. were called Mormons, and their faith was called Mormonism.

Ottoman historians often dwell on the prophetic significance of his name, which means " bone-breaker ", signifying the powerful energy with which he and his followers appeared to show in the following centuries of conquest.

The problem then arises, as Raymond Brown points out, whether this letter is an authentic writing of Paul written by one of his followers in his name.

With the aid of funds collected by his Madras disciples and Rajas of Mysore, Ramnad, Khetri, Dewans and other followers, Vivekananda left for Chicago on 31 May 1893 from Bombay assuming the name Vivekananda — the name suggested by the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh.

1, 479 votes were cast for Peter Buell Porter – against Clinton's 43, 310 – because the Tammany organization, which fiercely hated Clinton, had printed ballots with Porter's name and distributed among the Tammany followers in New York City.

Aceldama or Akeldama ( Aramaic: חקל דמא ; field of blood ) is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the followers of Jesus.

However, " Nicolaitan " ( Greek: Νικολαϊτῶν ; Νικολαΐτης ) is the name ostensibly given to followers of the heretic Nicolas ( Greek: Νικόλαος )— the name itself meaning " victorious over people ," or " victory of the people ," which he would have been given at birth.