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Muslim and Christian
The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).
The group killed members of the Muslim Abbasid, Seljuq, and Christian Crusader élite for political and religious reasons.
The war was already unpopular among Bulgarians themselves, as they were allied with the Muslim Ottomans against their Orthodox Christian neighbours.
After this event many Jews emigrated, in two waves ; some fled to the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, but many also went to Christian Europe, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and later to England.
The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish ( the only three religions officially recognized by the government ).
Following a protracted legal process culminating in a court ruling favorable to the Bahá ' ís, the interior minister of Egypt released a decree on April 14, 2009, amending the law to allow Egyptians who are not Muslim, Christian, or Jewish to obtain identification documents that list dash in place of one of the three recognized religions.
Bethlehem has a Muslim majority, but is also home to one of the largest Palestinian Christian communities.
In 637, shortly after Jerusalem was captured by the Muslim armies, ' Umar ibn al-Khattāb, the second Caliph, promised that the Church of the Nativity would be preserved for Christian use.
William IV, Count of Nevers had promised the Christian bishops of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should fall under Muslim control, he would welcome them in the small town of Clamecy in present-day Burgundy, France.
The influx of refugees significantly transformed Bethlehem's Christian majority into a Muslim one.
A majority of the forty-odd Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem is built on land confiscated from Christian, not Muslim, Palestinians.
The quarters include the Christian al-Najajreh, al-Farahiyeh, al-Anatreh, al-Tarajmeh, al-Qawawsa and Hreizat quarters and al-Fawaghreh — the only Muslim quarter.
Then Jesus will return visibly to earth and re-establish the nation of Israel ; the Jewish temple will be rebuilt at Jerusalem and the Temple mount, possibly in place of the Muslim Dome of the Rock ( see Christian Zionism ).
The Corpus Christianum can be seen as a Christian equivalent of the Muslim Ummah.
Various estimates of the population have been taken since ; in 1956 it was estimated a population of 1, 411, 416, with 54 % Christian and 44 % Muslim.
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.
The early Muslim rulers protected the city's Christian sites, prohibiting their destruction and their use as living quarters.
During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War ( 1529 – 1559 ), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (" Conquest of Abyssinia "), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Adal Sultanate.
Unforeseeable, overwhelming, or seemingly unjust events are often thrown on ' the will of the Divine ', in deferences like the Muslim inshallah (' as God wills it ') and Christian ' God works in mysterious ways '.
Andrew Wheatcroft describes how some social customs such as different conceptions of dirt and cleanliness made it difficult for the religious communities to live close to each other, either under Muslim or under Christian rule.
Also forbidden are political parties supporting militia formations or having an agenda that is contradictory to the constitution and its principles, or threatening the country's stability such as national unity between Muslim Egyptians and Christian Egyptians.
Some scholars have contended that the issue was a religious issue, between the Muslim lowland population desiring independence while the highland Christian population sought a union with Ethiopia.
The city was both Christian and Muslim, and both Moors and Christians served in the army and as administrators.
Sociologist of religion Tex Sample asserts that it is a mistake to refer to a Muslim, Jewish, or Christian Fundamentalist.
Standard Muslim teaching asserts that the Injil, the prophetic Gospel delivered through the prophet Isa ( Jesus of Nazareth ), has been irretrievably corrupted and distorted in the course of Christian transmission.

Muslim and Jew
No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion.
The statistics are: Hindu ( 80. 5 %), Muslim ( 13. 4 %), Christian ( 2. 3 %), Sikh ( 2. 1 %), Buddhist, Bahá ' í, Jain, Jew and Parsi populations.
The roles of the Johnsons increased, and several recurring characters were added including Mr Rabinsky ( a tightfisted Jew ), Mr Kittel ( Renu Setna ) a Muslim shopkeeper, Winston's cousin, and the milkman.
However, the fact remains that Zevi is the most famous Jew to have become a Muslim, which is also what the term Sabbatean has come to denote.
* Muslim Jew
The philosophers Moses Maimonides ( a Jew born in Muslim Spain ) and Ibn Khaldun ( born in modern-day Tunisia ), the father of sociology and historiography, were also important philosophers, though the latter did not identify himself as a falsafa, but rather a kalam author.
Certainly a Muslim, Christian, or Jew may consider the Vajrayana ( the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia ) idolatrous.
He was a Jew representing America in the largest Muslim republic in the world, an advocate of democracy in Suharto's dictatorship.
A converso (; ; ; " a convert ", from Latin, " converted, turned around ") and its feminine form conversa was a Jew or Muslim who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendents.
After an exhausting journey from the coast he reached Shiraz, and was soon plunged into discussion with the disputants of all classes, " Sufi, Muslim, Jew, and Jewish Muslim, even Armenian, all anxious to test their powers of argument with the first English priest who had visited them.
It is a conversation about the nature of truth between seven educated men, each with a distinct religious or philosophical orientation-a natural philosopher, a Calvinist, a Muslim, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Jew, and a skeptic.
Sunnis interpret this verse to mean that a Muslim may not take a Christian or Jew as a “ friend ”, whereas Shi ’ as reject this and interpret the verse in a political sense to mean that Christians and Jews should not act as “ authorities ” over Muslim people.
We only wanted a Jew and a Muslim to make our Religious Museum complete " ( Life, i. 284 ).
I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant American.
* Susan Nathan: An Israeli Jew in a Muslim town
His Latin work Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis (" The Colloqium of the Seven ") portrays a conversation about the nature of truth between seven cultivated men from diverse religious or philosophical backgrounds: a natural philosopher, a Calvinist, a Muslim, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Jew, and a skeptic.
After a short account of the incidents preceding the conversion of the king, and of his conversations with a philosopher, a Christian, and a Muslim concerning their respective beliefs, a Jew appears on the stage, and by his first statement startles the king ; for, instead of giving him proofs of the existence of God, he asserts and explains the miracles performed by Him in favor of the Israelites.
The rule of Suleiman and the subsequent Ottoman Sultans brought an age of " religious peace "; Jew, Christian and Muslim enjoyed the freedom of religion the Ottomans granted them and it was possible to find a synagogue, a church and a mosque in the same street.
* Trialogue Between Jew, Christian, and Muslim ( 1973 )
Floods and Fire repeatedly destroyed the books of the Kaifeng synagogue, they obtained some from Ningxia and Ningbo to replace them, another Hebrew roll of law was bought from a Muslim in Ning-keang-chow in Shen-se ( Shanxi ), who acquired it from a dying Jew at Canton.
Of this collaboration, Ismail Merchant once commented: " It is a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory ... I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant American.
So, ' interfaith ' refers to interaction between different faith groups such as Muslim and Christian or Hindu and Jew for example.

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