The Himalayan kingdom was connected to India through a district of the Punjab, but its population was 77 per cent Muslim and it shared a boundary with Pakistan.

From their base at Ani, the brothers surged ahead into the central Armenian lands, reclaiming one after another fortress and district from local Muslim dynasts: Bjni was taken in 1201 and Dvin fell in 1203.

The survey's more than 260 pages recorded that the district of Khachen had twelve Armenian villages and no Tatar ( Muslim ) villages ; Jalapert ( Jraberd ) had eight Armenian villages and no Tatar villages ; Dizak had fourteen Armenian villages and one Tatar village ; Gulistan had twelve Armenian and five Tatar villages ; and Varanda had twenty-three Armenian villages and one Tatar village.

Saint-Denis is home to the Union of French Islamic Organizations ( UOIF ) in the Bourget district, which annually hosts one of Europe's major Muslim conferences, Paris-le-Bourget.

In addition, each congressional district that falls under the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( a total of 8 ) elects three members each to the country's only subnational legislative assembly.

The Firman of 1834 abolished the old mode of levying it, and ordained that it should be raised by a commission composed of the Kadı, the Muslim governors, and the Ayans, or municipal chiefs of Rayas in each district.

He wooed the Muslim League by promising them a district of their own, which has been seen as a highly selfish move to make for a communist.

While the Muslim majority districts of Murshidabad and Malda were given to India, the Hindu majority district of Khulna and the majority Buddhist, but sparsely populated Chittagong Hill Tracts was given to Pakistan by the award.

In 1596, Danna was part of the Ottoman Empire, nahiya ( subdistrict ) of Shafa under the liwa ' ( district ) of Lajjun with a population of 5 Muslim families.

In 1596, Al-Bassa was part of the Ottoman Empire, a village in the nahiya ( subdistrict ) of Tibnin under the liwa ' ( district ) of Safad, with a population of 76 Muslim families and 28 Muslim bachelors.

Digora district is Christian while some parts of Iraf district are Muslim.

Among the famous personalities who hailed from Feni district are Famous saint Shah Syed Amir Uddin Pagla Miah / Baba ( RA ) who is regarded as founder of feni and sultanul awlia feni, Saint Mamu Fakir ( RA ), Begum Khaleda Zia ( former Prime Minister ), Sir A. F. Rahman ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of University, Dr. Mustafa Chowdhury ( former Public Service Commission Chairman ), Prof. Ahmed Shafee ( Vice-Chancellor of East West University ), Former Politician and Businessman Mowlana Abdul Wadud, Abdul Awal Mintu, Saber Hossen Chowdhury, Mosarraf Hossen, Economist Abu Ahammed, journalists

The other prominent languages that are spoken in the region are Urdu among Muslim community, Hindi among Jain community and very less is Tamil in places south of the district.

Christians and Muslim officers and men of the military district in Mindanao and Sulu shifted to the Moro guerilla activities against the Japanese.

Under Muslim rule the district flourished for a time ; but a mysterious depopulation took place and the whole region seems to have been almost entirely abandoned.

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from India settled in the Gujranwala district.

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from India settled in the Sialkot district.

Shaw was the highest-ranking Muslim elected official in the United States until the election of Keith Ellison to represent Minnesota's 5th congressional district.

Tarar comes from a Muslim Jat family and hails from the village Pirkot, within the Gujranwala district.

Mainly Hyderabad City, Telangana Region, Marathwada, Hyderabad-Karnataka, Gulbarga, Bidar & Raichur in Present day Karnataka, minority native Goan Konkani Muslims in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka with some variation of Nawayath, and Goan Muslim dialect in Goa.

Some of the Kabardians living in North Ossetian Republic's Mozdok district and the southern part of the neighbouring Kurskoy district of Stavropol region ( krai ) are Orthodox Christians, whereas the other part of which are Sunni Muslims as well as Kabardians of Kabardino-Balkar Republic who belong totally to Sunni Muslim Faith.

During this time, Amin was appointed as President of Mymensingh district unit of Muslim league, and was elected the vice president of Bengal Provincial Muslim League in 1944.

Rival Muslim dynasties such as the Fatimids of Egypt and the Umayyads of al-Andalus were also major intellectual centres with cities such as Cairo and Córdoba rivaling Baghdad.

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

Many Muslim musicians also perform a form of a cappella music called nasheed or Tawasheeh.

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.

Bethlehem has a Muslim majority, but is also home to one of the largest Palestinian Christian communities.

The manufacturer also hoped to increase exports ( Unilever UK & Ireland Export ) to Asian countries such as Malaysia, a primarily Muslim country where the government was becoming restrictive regarding non-halal meat.

Much of the Muslim world uses Sharia ( also called Islamic law ).

It is also less geographically cohesive than the Muslim world, which stretches almost continuously from North Africa to South Asia.

He also met the Muslim Generals Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui separately.

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

He also financed armed groups in mainland China, such as Muslim soldiers of the ROC Army left in Yunnan under Li Mi, to continue to fight.

Chiang also supported the Muslim General Ma Zhongying, whom he had trained at Whampoa Military Academy during the Kumul Rebellion, in a Jihad against Jin Shuren, Sheng Shicai, and the Soviet Union during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.

Other Muslim sects, like the Xidaotang and Sufi brotherhoods like Jahriyya and Khuffiya were also supported by his regime.

He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as " Abubacer " in Europe.

This was an era when other Muslim nations, like Turkey and Egypt were also on the path to modernization.

" 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.

A Muslim may also donate more as an act of voluntary charity ( sadaqah ), rather than to achieve additional divine reward.

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.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Firearms known as top-o-tufak also existed in many Muslim kingdoms in India by as early as 1366 AD.

Cornwall was however an unorthodox Muslim, and his interest in local peoples included their magical and spiritual beliefs, to which he also introduced Gardner, who took a particular interest in the kris, a ritual knife with magical uses.

Muslim interest in the peninsula returned in force around the year 1000 when Al-Mansur ( also known as Almanzor ) sacked Barcelona in 985.

The word sunnah ( custom ) is also used in reference to a normative custom of Muhammad or the early Muslim community.

) The French government has also been reported to have promoted Islamist preachers " in the hope of channeling Muslim energies into zones of piety and charity.