However, the gradual conversions to Islam over the centuries changed Egypt from a Christian to a largely Muslim country by the end of the 12th century.

However, dhimmis frequently attended the Muslim courts in order to record property and business transactions within their own communities.

However, this may have been a mask, as Raymond through Eleanor tried to forcibly sway Louis to use his army to attack the actual Muslim encampment at nearby Aleppo, gateway to recovering Edessa, the objective of the Crusade by papal decree.

" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

However, sufficient numbers of moriscos stayed that Muslim culture remained influential in Spain.

However, later emperors such as Aurangazeb tried to establish complete Muslim dominance, and as a result several historical temples were destroyed during this period and taxes imposed on non-Muslims.

However, soon after his victory he faced a new threat, the Muslim invasions.

However, relations have diminished due to ongoing sectarian clashes between Iraq's Sunni and Shia Muslim branches, and the Lebanese Government's support of Hezbollah.

However, the Indonesian Minangkabau people ( from western Sumatra ), despite being Muslim, employ only complete matrilineal succession with property and land passing down from mother to daughter.

However, most Muslim nations ( except for Turkey ), insist that such laws are necessary to preserve Islamic morality and virtue.

However, several Muslim rulers of Kashmir were intolerant of other religions.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

However, Muslim politicians were also worried that a strong army could be used against Muslim interests because it would be commanded by Christians.

However, the Christian majority of the past, constituting around 65 % of the population at one point, has been shrinking, while the number of Muslims has steadily increased to its present 45 % of the population due to immigration from Muslim countries.

However, the non-Muslim dhimmis were subject to taxation jizyah at a different rate of the Muslim zakat.

However, Christian and Muslim rulers commonly became divided and fought amongst themselves.

However, a major punitive expedition led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, the latest emir of Al-Andalus, defeated and killed Uthman, and the Muslim governor mustered an expedition north across the western Pyrenees, looted areas up to Bordeaux and defeated Odo in the Battle of the River Garonne in 732.

However, a major punitive expedition led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, the latest emir of Al-Andalus, defeated and killed Uthman, and the Muslim governor mustered an expedition north across the western Pyrenees, looted areas up to Bordeaux and defeated Odo in the Battle of the River Garonne in 732.

However, Muslim Arab invaders, who in 640 had conquered Egypt, posed a threat to the Christian Nubian kingdoms.

However eleven northern states have adopted sharia law for those who practice the Muslim religion.

However, the first group appears dominant: " Jamal al Banna has been for a number of years one of the few mainstream Muslim scholars to argue that the Muslim headscarf, or hijab, is not an Islamic obligation.

However, these incursions and epochs, though pivotal, did not shape the region's history as the invasions of two later invading groups: Muslim Arabs and the Oghuz Turks.

However, the Muslim and medieval practice was to draw a smaller amount blood from a distant location.

However, mosque bombings have not been exclusive to Iraq ; in June 2005, a suicide bomber killed at least 19 people at an Afghan Shia mosque near Jade Maivand.

However, he was opposed to the demand that Hezbollah be disarmed, and insisted on maintaining relations with the Shia Islamist party.

However, Shia Muslims charge that if anything, he was the instigator of the civil war, and weakened the Muslim nation and divided the Ummah, fabricating self-aggrandizing heresies and slander against the Prophet's family and even selling his Muslim critics into slavery in the Byzantine empire.

However, the Sunni Ormusi were not popular with Bahrain's Shia population which suffered religious disadvantages, prompting rebellion.

However the Shia faith believe the 6th pillar is khomes which means that you have to pay 1: 5 of your wealth to the poor and needy, unlike some Sunni minorities such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda, identifying those groups as sharing the Kharijite view that jihad is the sixth pillar of Islam, and renewalist groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which are described as not sharing that view.

However, after the First Gulf War ( 1991 ), the Iraqi government aggressively revived a program to divert the flow of the Tigris River and the Euphrates River away from the marshes in retribution for a failed Shia uprising.

However Maratha Empire was assisted by Nawab of Oudh who was himself a Muslim but the grudge of Nawab of Oudh and Afghan Pathans arises from the fact that Pathans were Sunni whereas Nawab was a Shia.

However, this Shia minority forms the second largest Shia population of any country, larger than the Shia majority in Iraq.

However, his Imamate was rejected by the Waqifite Shia.

However, when Shia ' states arose in later centuries, since the hidden Imam was alive and was the leader of Muslims, the role of Shia ' state among Shia ' communities were in question.

However, it is more likely that began as Zaydi Shia '.

However, Misha sacrifices herself by making some kind of medicine that made people forget her, and remember Shia.

However, Most current Lawatis are known to be Twelver Shia Muslims.

However, the Sunni do not accept the Shia interpretation of these hadith.

However, one recent publication, The Succession to Muhammad written by Institute for Ismaili Studies in London's researcher Wilfred Madelung, ex Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford, examines the course of events from 632, and the death of Muhammad, through the rise of the Umayyads — and rehabilitates some of the Shia narratives.

However, the Shia have traditionally asserted that the Sunni perspective of Umar, including ideas inadvertently borrowed by certain Western orientalists, is at best inaccurate, and at worst largely fabricated.

However, reform of the law has been resisted by the leading Shia Islamist party, Al Wefaq, resulting in a major political showdown with women's rights activists.

However, other sects of Islam such as Sunni and Shia also live in Yasin.

However, later, the ghulat doctrines were forsaken, and Arab Twelver Shia ulema resident in Lebanon, Iraq, and Bahrain were brought in increasing numbers.