Many Islamic scholars and modern Western academics do not view Uzair as " Ezra "; for example Professor Gordon Darnell Newby associates Uzair with Enoch and Metatron.

Many of those described as " Islamists " oppose the use of the term, and claim that their political beliefs and goals are simply an expression of Islamic religious belief.

Many Muslims believe as Saudi Prince Saud al Faisal did that the hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth obtained from the Persian Gulf's huge oil deposits were nothing less than a gift from God to the Islamic faithful.

Many scholars of Sharia, or Islamic law, interpret homosexual activity as a punishable offence as well as a sin.

Many initial news stories hypothesized the attack had been undertaken by Islamic terrorists, such as those who had masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Many proto-scientists from the Islamic Golden Age and medieval and Renaissance Europe are considered polymaths, in part because of the lack of anything corresponding to modern scientific disciplines.

Many small businesses, like this tyre repair shop in Touba, Senegal | Touba, are financed through the Mouride Islamic brotherhood.

Shia Muslims ) Many Islamic scholars today advocate renewed approaches to fiqh that don't necessarily follow the traditional five allegiances.

Many Westerners consider the punishments prescribed by some countries ' interpretation of Islamic law to be " barbaric and cruel ".

Many primarily Palestinian political parties, including George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini's Arab Higher Committee, the Islamic Liberation Front and several Syrian-backed groups, virtually crumbled after their sponsor governments ' defeat.

Many arabesque patterns disappear at ( or " under " as it often appears to a viewer ) a framing edge without ending, and thus can be regarded as infinitely extendable outside the space they actually occupy ; this was certainly a distinctive feature of the Islamic form, though not without precedent.

Many Ashkenazi Jews in fact also have mixed Sephardic origins, as a result of exiles from Spain, first during Islamic persecutions ( 11th-12th centuries ) and later Christian conquests ( 13th-15th centuries ) and Spanish Inquisition ( 15th-16th centuries ).

Many Islamist groups have been called " right wing " including the Great Union Party, and the Combatant Clergy Association / Association of Militant Clergy and the Islamic Society of Engineers of Iran.

Many of them had been part of his Islamic Legion created in 1972.

Many legends made him a nephew of Charlemagne ( whether or not this was true is unknown ), and turned his life into an epic tale of the noble Christian killed by Islamic forces, which forms part of the medieval Matter of France.

Many of his policies and reforms were brought into the Islamic nation in their transformation from a decentralized oligarchical into an imperial empire.

Many people also avail themselves of this opportunity to distribute zakat, an Islamic obligatory alms tax of 2. 5 % of one's annual savings, to the needy.

Many Muslims believe that the Islamic holy book, the Qur ' an, and the collected traditions of the life of Muhammed, or hadith, require both men and women to dress and behave modestly in public.

Many of the Mu ' tazili doctrines and methodologies, nonetheless, survived in the other Islamic schools.

Many Arabic concepts have an Arabic secular meaning as well as an Islamic meaning.

Many Islamic sects condemn veneration of icons associated with saints.

Many traditional Sunni Islamic lawyers agree that to be in keeping with Islam, a government should have some form of council of consultation or majlis al-shura, although it must recognize that God and not the people are sovereign and that it is subordinate to Sharia law.

Many countries have state-run schools this purpose ( known as Madrasah Islamiyyah in Arabic ; meaning " Islamic school ").

Many of the leading figures of the new Islamic movement that emerged in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon in the 1970s had studied at Najaf.

Many Orthodox theologians believe that all people will have an opportunity to embrace union with God, including Jesus, after their death, and so become part of the Church at that time.

Many feminist theologians assert that personal experience can be an important component of insight into the divine, along with the more traditional sources of holy books or received tradition.

Many theologians argue for a Christology that is expressly based on the Trinity and an understanding of the interpersonal relationships between Father and Son and between Son and Holy Spirit.

Many Presbyterian scholars, pastors, and theologians have been heavily involved in the debate over homosexuality.

Many of these early polymaths were also religious priests and theologians: for example, Alhazen and al-Biruni were mutakallimiin ; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz ; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema ; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theologian and historian of Protestantism ; the astronomer and physician Nicolaus Copernicus was a priest.

Many philosophers and theologians have expounded and criticized different versions of the teleological argument.

Many philosophers and theologians regard this puzzle about omnipotence as not a very serious problem.

Many evangelical Christian interpreters, including well known ministers and theologians such as John Hagee and Tim LaHaye, say the passages refer to the Second Coming of Jesus.

Many Holocaust theologians understandably reject applying traditional Jewish explanations for suffering, that look for sins of the people, to explain or contribute to explaining the events.

Many medieval theologians and philosophers followed Aristotle in seeing a living being's soul as that being's form — specifically, its substantial form.

Many other Muslim theologians did likewise.

Many theologians and scholars also consider " the beast that goes into perdition " mentioned in Revelation and to be references to the " Son of Perdition.

Many prominent Christian apologists are scholarly philosophers or theologians, frequently with additional doctoral work in physics, cosmology, comparative religions, or other fields.

Many theologians note by way of comparison that in the Catholic Church, the Assumption is dogmatically defined, while in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Dormition is less dogmatically than liturgically and mystically defined.

Many Christian theologians ( Martin Luther and Jean Bodin among others ) believed that demons could impregnate women but their children would have a short life and be good for nothing ; other theologians ( Francisco Valesio, aka Valesius, Tomaso Malvenda and Johann Cochlaeus among others ) thought that these children could be important characters, like Attila, Martin Luther, Melusine or the Antichrist.

Many Baptist and Congregationalist theologians accept the local sense as the only valid application of the term church.

Many of these theologians and others in the early church expressed their belief in premillennialism through their acceptance of the sexta-septamillennial tradition.

Many theologians and early Church fathers have observed that the first recorded miracle of Jesus is at a wedding feast, thus, many believe, signifying his approval of the institution of marriage as well as his recognition of the importance of the public celebration of a wedding.

Many theologians as Otto Beckmann, Anton Corvinus or Julius Dammann, office bearers of the church like Johann Conrad Schlaun or Arnold Güldenpfennig and church artists like Josef Kohlschein come from Warburg.

Many eminent theologians favour the conception of pure actuality ( Actus Purus ), from which simplicity and infinity are directly deduced.

Many learned theologians have praised it.

Many philosophers and theologians who embrace the grounding objection prefer to claim that instead of counterfactuals of freedom being true, probable counterfactuals are true instead.

Many philosophers and theologians have rejected this conception of god while affirming belief in another conception of god, including St. Augustine, Maimonides, St. Thomas Aquinas, Baruch Spinoza, and Søren Kierkegaard.