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, by the late 14th century, these low-boarded vessels were at a disadvantage against newer, taller vessels – when the Victual Brothers, in the employee of the Hansa, attacked Bergen in the autumn of 1393, the " great ships " of the pirates could not be boarded by the Norwegian levy ships called out by Margaret I of Denmark and the raiders were able to sack the town with impunity.

However, there is some evidence that during this period of independence from external rule, the city was deserted because it was too exposed to attacks by Moorish pirates from the sea.

However, pirates were more " egalitarian " than any other area of employment at the time.

However, space pirates infiltrate their ship, and their leader turns out to be a rogue Jedi named Lorian Nod, who was a close friend of Dooku's.

However, Gaines had left for East Florida to deal with pirates who had occupied Fernandina.

However, fansubbers have traditionally held themselves to a common code of ethics and do not commonly see themselves as pirates.

However, many East Indiamen also travelled on their own, and therefore were armed to the same standard as a ship of the line in order to defend themselves against pirates and privateers.

However, the subsequent use of cutlasses by pirates is well documented in contemporary sources, notably by the pirate crews of William Fly, William Kidd, and Stede Bonnet.

However, the Professor reactivates her and she defeats the pirates in turn when they attack Gambit and Xavier.

However a shipwreck and an attack by pirates on the way back to his home in Britain caused him to lose all of his specimens.

However, Japanese officers suspected them because there had been some Korean pirates in the former Silla period.

However the inefficient training of the officers, coupled with conflict between those who pursued modernization and those who were stalwarts of the traditions of the veterans of the struggle for independence, resulted in a restricted and inefficient navy, which was limited to policing the sea and the pursuit of pirates.

However, when Shin Don died, Choe Yong was restored to his previous position and was immediately asked to prepare a fleet to fight the Japanese pirates and eliminate the remaining Mongol forces on Jeju Island.

However, due to frequent raids from seafaring Chinese pirates, they decided to move their settlements inland.

However, as they emerge from the mountain, they find themselves directly above a river upon which a fleet of pirates is sailing towards Minas Tirith.

However, the pirates were beaten by a laser Sam made out of the loops and Blackbeak was helpless.

However, he is not as well known as some of the pirates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

However, the pirates lost most of their booty when the two ketches they sent to bring their wealth to New York fell into the hands of French privateers.

However, the pirates retreated on a covered life boat and held the captain hostage for four days.

However, it is known that sometime between 1714 and 1718, she and James Bonny moved to Nassau, on New Providence Island ; known as a sanctuary for English pirates.

However, the few Squats not on the Home Worlds stayed isolated, typically as either pirates or members of the Imperium's armies.

However, due to similarities between the " H " and other existing cards, it became apparent that while the signal could not be received without the card and its ASIC, the card itself was vulnerable to tampering by reprogramming it to add channel tiers or additional programming, opening TV channels to the prying eyes of the pirates.

However in recent years the main border pirates have been the target of repeated raids, with the largest stations forced off-air.

However, Santa Anna had received authorization from the Mexican Congress to treat all captured Texian troops as pirates rather than prisoners-of-war.

However, Bintan and its straits got the reputation as a pirate island due to the Malay pirates who seized many ships by forcing them to the port to trade and or loot the cargo carried by them.