The Shura Council is the 264-member upper house of Parliament created in 1980.

One half of the Shura Council is renewed every three years.

The Shura Council was dissolved with the abrogation of the constitution in February 2011.

Post-revolutionary, three round elections for the new 270 seat Shura Council will start on January 29, 2012 and end on March 11.

Analysis of the attack suggested that the Mujahideen Shura Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq were responsible, and that the motivation was to provoke further violence by outraging the Shia population.

The Mujahideen Shura Council was said to have been headed by Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi.

In mid-October 2006, a statement was released, stating that the Mujahideen Shura Council had been disbanded and was replaced by the " Islamic State of Iraq ".

Women will be allowed to vote beginning in 2012, as King Abdullah announced in the opening speech of the new term of the Shura Council.

On February 20, 2001, a new constitutional amendment created a bicameral legislature consisting of a Shura Council ( 111 seats ; members appointed by the president ) and a House of Representatives ( 301 seats ; members elected by popular vote ).

Under the constitution, an elected president, an elected 301-seat House of Representatives, and an appointed 111-member Shura Council share power.

The parliament is a bi-cameral legislature, with the Chamber of Deputies elected by universal suffrage, and the Shura Council appointed directly by the king.

The opposition led by Islamic parties boycotted the 2002 election in protest at the bicameral nature of the parliament, because the appointed upper chamber, the Shura Council, has the power to veto legislation.

In response to the failure of women candidates, six were appointed to the Shura Council, which also includes representatives of the Kingdom ’ s indigenous Jewish and Christian communities.

Shia and Sunni Islamic parties have both criticised the government over the composition of the appointed Shura Council, after it was given a strongly liberal majority, with Al Meethaq being the biggest group in the chamber.

Critics allege that the government is seeking to use the Shura Council as a liberal bulwark to prevent clerical domination of politics.

Abdulaziz established a Shura Council of the Hijaz as early as 1927.

On February 20, 2003, the U. S. Department of Justice announced that Al-Arian had been arrested as the alleged leader of the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) in the U. S., and Secretary of the PIJ's central worldwide governing group ( the " Shura Council ").

In Egypt, the Upper House of Parliament is known as the Shura Council.

* Shura Council ( Consultative Council ) – Egypt

In 2008, the Shura Council ratified the Arab Charter on Human Rights.

* Mujahedeen Shura Council

A group called the Mujahideen Shura Council released the hostage video.

He was also elected to the Central Shura and the Executive Council of the Jamaat.

Shura members have responded by pointing out that an appointed upper chamber is a feature of long established democracies such as the United Kingdom and Canada.

The upper house, the Shura Council, has 40 members appointed by the King of Bahrain, with the stated aim of giving a voice to minority communities and technocratic experts within the legislative process.

This idea was opposed by the members of Majlis al Shura at Madinah, who claimed that the two-front war required Umar's presence in Madinah.

Umar's decision to command the army in person was not well received by the members of Majlis al Shura at Madinah.

The Shura Council ( Majlis al-Shura, upper house ) has 264 members.

The Shura Council's legislative powers are limited.

While the city is being developed, it is the scene of occasional deadly suicide bombings and explosions carried out by the Haqqani network, Taliban's Quetta Shura, Hezb-i Islami, al-Qaeda, and other anti-government elements who are allegedly supported and guided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

While the city is being developed, it is also the scene of occasional deadly suicide bombings and explosions carried out by the Haqqani network, Taliban's Quetta Shura, Hezb-i Islami, Al Qaeda, and other anti-government elements who are allegedly supported and guided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

The Shura Council's legislative powers are limited.

It began when the government introduced a law permitting the formation of other political parties, announced that it would be prepared to share power with representatives of opposition groups in the event of a coalition government, and issued a new constitution providing for a new bicameral National Assembly ( Meli Shura ), consisting of a Senate ( Sena ) and a House of Representatives ( Wolesi Jirga ), and a president to be indirectly elected to a 7-year term.

They were elected by a process known as Shura.

Warith Deen Mohammed among others was elected to the Islamic Society of North America's Shura Board during its 36th annual Convention held in Chicago, Ill., during the 1999 Labor Day weekend and on Oct. 16 1999 he along with others was sworn in to serve on the ( ISNA ) Majlis As-Shura.

Sunni Islam stipulates that the head of state, the caliph, should be selected by Shura – elected by Muslims or their representatives.

In 1917 he was elected to Millät Mäclese, and with Şerif Manatov he organized the Bashkir Shura ( Council ).

The anime series based on Emma and Aria were both licensed in 2008, and Area 88, Gankutsuou, Kurau Phantom Memory, Noein, Shura no Toki, and UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie were all licensed after the legal action in 2004.

Following the poor performance of women candidates in the parliamentary elections, six women including one Christian, were appointed to the upper chamber of parliament, the Shura Council.

Sharia law took precedence over the will of the ruler, and electing rulers by means of the Shura was an important doctrine.

A propaganda video of boys marching in camouflage uniform and chanting slogans of martyrdom was issued in 2009 by the Afghan Taliban's leadership in Pakistan, the Quetta Shura, including a eulogy to a 14-year-old Taliban fighter who killed an American soldier.

Kim Jong-il's brother, " Shura " Kim ( the first Kim Pyong-il, but known by his Russian nickname ), drowned there in 1948.

* October 14 – the London Symphony Orchestra opens its winter season, conducted by Alfred Coates, in a programme including Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor orchestrated by Alexander Goedicke, Respighi's Roman Festivals, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto ( with soloist Shura Cherkassky ), and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

While the Kandahar Shura of the Taliban debated issues, in the end its spokesman declared, " we abide by the Amir's view even if he alone takes this view.

He is killed by Shura and Arthur in the anime while in the manga he may have retreated along with his master.

In the anime, Behemoth was killed by the joint effort of Arthur Auguste Angel and Shura Kirigakure.

Traditional political concepts in Islam include leadership by successors to the Prophet known as Caliphs, ( Imamate for Shia ); the importance of following Islamic law or Sharia ; the duty of rulers to seek Shura or consultation from their subjects ; and the importance of rebuking unjust rulers but not encouraging rebellion against them.

Many Sahaba, the most prominent being Abdullah ibn Zubayr, refused to give their oath of allegiance to Yazid as they saw it as usurpation of power and not the proper way of choosing a Caliph by the Shura.