Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed amidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents who opposed Nasheed ’ s 16 January order for the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.

Mohammed bin Thani opposed Ottoman designs on Qatar, but his son, Jassim bin Mohammed, accepted Ottoman sovereignty in 1872.

Although Jassim bin Mohammed privately complained of the Ottoman presence, he hoped that with Ottoman support he could dominate those sheikhs in other towns who opposed him and rebuff Bahrain's claims on Az Zubarah.

In 1989, Mohammed Wahby, press director of Egypt's Information Bureau, wrote to the Washington Post saying, " Jeane Kirkpatrick has, somehow, consistently opposed any attempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In 1984 W. Deen Mohammed went against the mainstream African American political establishment an opposed Reverend Jesse Jackson's run for the Democratic nomination for President.

However, according to Algerian historian Mohammed Harbi, a former FLN member, comparison between harkis and traitors or " collaborators " is not pertinent as, according to him, fighters during the Algerian War and those who opposed the French resistance to collaborators cannot be compared.

Iranians in general opposed these capitulations, and secular Iranians such as Mohammed Mossadeq, wanted to establish a fixed written law they believed would not only end the capitulations but facilitate the building of a strong and unified state.

In the documentary Islam: The Untold Story broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in 2012 the historian Tom Holland identified the city of Avdat as an alternative location for the home of the Prophet Mohammed and the location of the origin of Islam as opposed to Mecca where it is traditionally said to be.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

Abdullahi Mohammed Hussein of Telecom Somalia explained this by stating that " the government post and telecoms company used to have a monopoly but after the regime was toppled, we were free to set up our own business ", The Economist cited the telephone industry in anarchic Somalia as " a vivid illustration of the way in which governments … can often be more of a hindrance than a help.

Mohammed al-Mahdi's growing fame made the Ottoman regime uneasy and drew unwelcome attention.

Its name was changed to Cross River State in the 1976 state creation exercise by the then General Murtala Mohammed regime from South Eastern State.

* In January 2001 Hicks travelled to Afghanistan, then under the control of the Taliban regime, where he presented a letter of introduction from Lashkar-e-Toiba to Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda member, and was given the alias " Mohammed Dawood ".

* Iran after the overthrow of the last Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's regime.

The emergence of a Westernized liberal tradition in Iran is a relatively new phenomenon, formed against a backdrop of political transformation which included: the demise of the Qajar dynasty, the constitutional struggles of the 1920s, consolidation of the autocratic regime of Reza Shah, the postwar confrontation between Reza Shah ’ s son and the nationalist prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and the shah ’ s launching of the White Revolution in 1963.

The Badr Brigade was formed by Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim to fight Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime in Iraq.

The regime of the monarch Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was anathema to the bazaaris, who seemed set to lose out as the country industrialised ; they feared that they would be left behind and their status in society would be reduced.

Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8th, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rented and moved into a local chateau following his exile by the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, and after being deported from Iraq where he was taking refuge amongst the Shi ' a community.

* Olusegun Obasanjo * ( Murtala Mohammed Military regime )

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Mohammed VII of Granada, al-Mustain, who did that sovereign good service in his struggles to retain the crown of which he was three times deprived.

The Sudanese government was blamed for the attack, which was the second in the region in three days, but Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim denies any Sudanese involvement, " We are not for any escalation with Chad.

In Morocco, where king Mohammed VI is also Amir al-Muminin ( Commander of the Faithful ), the authorities have tried to organize the field by creating a scholars ' council ( conseil des oulémas ) composed of Muslim scholars ( ulama ), which is the only one allowed to issue fatāwā.

In the south of Hedjaz ( principal religious and commercial centre of Middle Ages Arabia ), the Arabic tribe of Quraysh ( Adnani Arabs ), to which Mohammed belonged, had been in existence.

The European wars culminated in defeat at the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), which forced the king to accept an unfavourable peace with France after having failed to get help from King Mohammed el-Nasir of Morocco.

Haddad identifies the primary historical basis for this belief in a pair of similarly worded hadith, in which Mohammed is reported to have told warriors returning home that they had returned from the lesser jihad of struggle against non-Muslims to a greater jihad of struggle against lust.

In Spring 1999, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden committed to support the 9 / 11 attacks plot, which was largely organized by prominent al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

In the months that followed independence, Mohammed V proceeded to build a modern governmental structure under a constitutional monarchy in which the sultan would exercise an active political role.

His perseverance in the face of some astronomical scores by the fearsome quartet of Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Navjot Sidhu and Vinod Kambli was in sharp contrast to the submission with which his team-mates played the series.

Mihdhar returned to Yemen, which angered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who did not want Hazmi to be left alone in California.

In the late 19th century, after the Berlin Conference, European powers began the Scramble for Africa, which inspired the Dervish leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan to rally support from across the Horn of Africa and begin one of the longest colonial resistance wars ever.

The 2001 attacks were preceded by the less well known Bojinka plot which was planned in the Philippines by Ramzi Yousef ( of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ) and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

The UAE saw comparatively little unrest, but did face one high-profile case in which five pro-democracy activists were arrested on charges of insulting President Khalifa, Vice President Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The Bhopal state, which paid tribute to both the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad, was founded by Dost Mohammed Khan, a former General in the Mughal army.

On March 9, King Mohammed VI made a speech that was described as a " historical " speech in which he announced several reforms including a new constitution to the country.

The Red Sea Sharks is an adventure in which Tintin investigates the supporters of Sheikh Bab El Ehr's overthrow of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the Emir of Khemed.

This operation was remarkably successful, and by 1977 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan was willing to settle all outstanding issues in exchange for a lifting of the ban on the National Awami Party and a commitment towards provincial autonomy for Pashtuns, which was already guaranteed by Pakistan's Constitution, but stripped by the Bhutto government when the One Unit scheme was introduced.

Mohammed Khan says, " We have ways of making men talk " ( a line which is frequently misquoted ) and has his prisoners tortured.