Local terms for the procedure include tahara in Egypt ; tahur in Sudan ; and bolokoli in Mali, which Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write are words synonymous with purification.

Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write that attempts in the early 20th century by colonial administrators to halt FGM succeeded only in provoking local anger.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Rahman and Nahid Toubia write, doctors in Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria began to speak out about the health consequences of FGM, and opposition gathered pace during the United Nations Decade for Women ( 1975 – 1985 ).

* Rahman, Anika and Toubia, Nahid.

The committee chairman, the Federal Minister for Education, Fazlur Rahman, asked several poets and composers to write lyrics but none of the submitted works were deemed suitable.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

In addition to killing women and children, the attackers mutilated a number of bodies and distributed leaflets throughout the scene demanding Rahman ’ s release.

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

The Amir Sher Ali marched up against them from Kandahar ; but in the battle that ensued at Sheikhabad on May 10, he was deserted by a large body of his troops, and after his signal defeat Abdur Rahman released his father, Afzul Khan, from prison in Ghazni, and installed him upon the throne as Amir of Afghanistan.

Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.

His father and brother, Abdul Rahman al-Haznawi, reportedly last heard from him in late 2000, after he made references to training in Afghanistan.

Sher Ali Khan, his third son, and proclaimed successor, failed to recapture Kabul from his older brother, Mohammad Afzal ( whose troops were led by his son, Abdur Rahman ) until 1868, after which Abdur Rahman retreated across the Amu Darya and bided his time.

In addition to forging a nation from the splintered regions comprising Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman tried to modernize his kingdom by forging a regular army and the first institutionalized bureaucracy.

Although Abdur Rahman had fathered many children, he groomed Habibullah to succeed him, and he made it difficult for his other sons to contest the succession by keeping power from them and sequestering them in Kabul under his control.

Although made secure in his position as ruler by virtue of support from the army which was created by his father, Habibullah was not as domineering as Abdur Rahman.

General Yahya Khan and his military government were kept unaware of these developments and under pressure from his own military government, refused to allow Rahman to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

This provoked Tunku Abdul Rahman to demand that Singapore withdraw from Malaysia, which it did in August 1965.

The government declared a state of emergency, and a National Operations Council, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, took power from the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman, who in September 1970 was forced to retire in favour of Abdul Razak.

* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.

Shaikh Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah insisted that Kuwait was in full control of all territory out to a radius of 140 km from the capital ; however, the ruler of Najd, Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud, argued, in September 1920, that the borders of Kuwait did not extend past the walls of the capital.

In 732 AD, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and a large army of Muslim horsemen from Al-Andalus advanced 500 km deep into France, and were stopped at Tours by Charles Martel and his infantry igniting the Battle of Tours.

However, Arafat also dropped Abdel Rahman and Abdel Raouf from his name as well.

* January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

* March 27 – East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major ( later President of Bangladesh ) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.

* August 7 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.

* Abdur Rahman Khan is exiled from Afghanistan.

Abdur Rahman Khan moved the rebellious Ghilzai Pashtuns from the southern part of the country to the northern part in the 1880s.

A. R. Rahman rose from fame in the Chennai film industry to become one of the most popular current music directors and has had a musical Bombay Dreams, playing in London and New York, and scored several projects outside India.

The song " Chaiyya Chaiyya ", originally composed by A. R. Rahman for Dil Se .. ( 1998 ), has also been well received around the world, making several top 10 world music lists and has even been featured in several American movies.

Shahid Rahman and Helge Rückert extended the dialogical approach to the study of several non-classical logics such as modal logic, relevance logic, free logic and connexive logic.

Starting from the mid 1960s, with the support of the then Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak, several initiatives launched to increase and expand Malaysia's economic growth.

CMKP is presently led by its General Secretary Taimur Rahman of Laal fame and operates several fronts, most prominently Laal Theater and Laal Films.

As part of Stewart ’ s defense of Rahman, and her serving for several years on post-conviction issues, she was subject to modified " special administrative measures " which govern communications between suspects and their legal counsel.

Most of the officers insisted on leaving this was despite the fact, Sardar Ataullah Mengal as chief minister moved a resolution in the Balochistan Assembly to do away with the domicile category and suggested that those who had spent several generations in the province should be treated as locals ( Rahman 2006 ).

As the ruler of Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman ( 1975 – 1981 ) enacted several controversial measures, ostensibly to win the support of Islamic political parties and opponents of the Awami League.

The killings which began on March 25, 1971 and sparked the Bangladesh Liberation War led to the deaths of at least 26, 000 people, as admitted by Pakistan ( by the Hamoodur Rahman Commission ) and as many as 3, 000, 000 as claimed by Bangladesh ( from 1972 to 1975 the first post-war prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, mentioned on several occasions

In late 2005, Rahman has been blamed for masterminding several more bomb attacks, including the first suicide bombing in Bangladesh.

During 1971 till 1975 when the commission submitted its report, Chief Justice Rahman conduct several interviews of Pakistan Armed Forces ' senior military officers as well as Bengali nationalists.

Under the President Major General Ziaur Rahman, he served several ministerial posts including deputy prime minister and later sacked on allegation of organizing dissident group in the party.

The coup resulted in the assassination of the country's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his entire family ( daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana escaped as they were in Germany ) and several ministers and leaders of the Awami League.

He worked for several years as a session violinist for leading music directors Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin-Lalit and A. R. Rahman.