Scholars hope that fiqh and sharia are in harmony in any given case, but this cannot be assured.

Upon his departure, then-Secretary Tommy Thompson remarked " I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do ..." Scholars concur, arguing that an attack on food ( particularly milk ) could affect approximately 100, 000 people.

Scholars cannot with any certainty prove the authorship of Jeremiah, although consensus has gathered around a thesis of multiple sources, mainly because of the contrast between the poetic discourses and the prose narrative.

Scholars hope that fiqh and sharia are in harmony in any given case, but they cannot be sure.

Scholars suggest that the frontier agreement was not of the form of an " executed clause " which usually caters for sovereign boundary demarcation and which cannot be unilaterally repudiated.

Scholars such as Peter Auer and Li Wei argue that the explanation of the social motivation of code-switching lies in the way code-switching is structured and managed in conversational interaction ; in other words, the question of why code-switching occurs cannot be answered without first addressing the question of how it occurs.

The 1978 book Mary in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars concluded that " it cannot be said that the New Testament identifies them ( the " brothers and sisters " of Jesus ) without doubt as blood brothers and sisters and hence as children of Mary ".

Scholars cannot tell from records whether the writers of the time, when using the term Tonto Apache, were referring to Yavapai or Apache, or those mixed bands.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, chaired by Yusuf al-Qaradawi called the arrest " disgraceful ", and called on the Bangladesh government to release him immediately, stating that " the charge of Professor Ghulam Azam and his fellow scholars and Islamic activists of committing war crimes more than forty years ago is irrational and cannot be accepted ".

Scholars generally agree that many of the personalities of Beowulf also appear in Scandinavian sources ( specific works designated in the following section ).

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

Scholars such as D. A. Carson, Douglas J. Moo, and Craig Blomberg, often agree with Robinson.

Scholars generally agree that the theme of divine promise unites the patriarchal cycles, but many would dispute the idea that a single theme ( or theology ) runs through Genesis – a theology of the Abraham cycle or the Jacob cycle or the Joseph cycle might be possible, or a theology of the Yahwist or the Priestly source, but not a single theology or overarching theme for all of Genesis.

Scholars do not agree on the process of how he developed his own unique model.

Scholars agree, however, that it is important to distinguish between Calvin's views toward the biblical Jews and his attitude toward contemporary Jews.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

Scholars of Japanese history agree that the bushidō that spread throughout modern Japan was not simply a continuation of earlier traditions.

Scholars now widely agree though that many textual variants previously classified as " Samaritan " actually derive from even earlier phases of the Pentateuch's textual history.

Scholars agree, however, that Leopold was successful as a pedagogue.

Constitutional historian Melvin I. Urofsky concludes that, " Scholars agree that as a judge, Warren does not rank with Louis Brandeis, Black, or Brennan in terms of jurisprudence.

Scholars John Lindow and Carolyne Larrington agree that the Prose Edda account of the flood borrowed from Judeo-Christian tradition of Noah's Ark.

Scholars however agree that there are two authentic ways of raising one's hands: when not in drastic conditions the palms of one's hands should be turned up facing the skies, whilst the back of one's hands are facing the ground, then the du ' a can be " recited ".

Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older.

Scholars agree that historically Champa was divided into several regions or principalities spread out from South to North along the coast of modern Vietnam and united by a common language, culture and heritage.

Scholars agree that although Bucer's impact on the Church of England should not be overestimated, he exercised his greatest influence on the revision of the Prayer Book.

Scholars now tend to agree that modern Chinese literature did not erupt suddenly in the New Culture Movement ( 1917 – 23 ).

Scholars agree that singing is strongly present in many non-human species.

Scholars agree that Logan Elrod was a son of Shikellamy, an important diplomat for the Iroquois Confederacy.

Scholars today agree that Athenaeus's Ulpian is not the historical Ulpian, but possibly his father.

Scholars generally agree on a date in the second half of the 2nd century.

Scholars agree that the group's influence has waned since the end of World War II, with the growing importance of Jews, Catholics, and other former outsiders.

Scholars such as Vanderbilt University history professor Simon Collier, University of Belgrano agriculture history professor Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history professor Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University agree that Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, in 1890, and that he laid a false trail about his birthplace beginning in 1920, when he was almost 30.

Scholars agree that gumbo originated in Louisiana in the early 18th century, but its uncertain etymology makes it difficult to pinpoint the origins of the food.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

Scholars recognize that classification ultimately depends on how one defines religion.

Scholars who are not Christian Scientists rely on it, but church members strongly disfavor it.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

" Al-Obeikan, however, was subsequently removed from his position as advisor to the royal cabinet in May 2012 after opposing moves to relax gender segregation, and in August of 2012, Obeikan ’ s morning radio show “ Fatwas on Air ,” in which he would issue daily fatwas, was canceled after a royal decree that authorizes only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas.

In September 2007, the Central Java division and Jepara branch of the Indonesian organisation Nahdlatul Ulama ( the Awakening of the Religious Scholars ) declared the government's proposal to build a nuclear power station nearby at Balong on the Muria peninsula haram or forbidden.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Scholars have ranked him favorably on the list of greatest presidents for his ability to set an agenda and achieve all of it.

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum.

Scholars lack information on this period.

Scholars have found that the styles of Shakespeare and Oxford, based on a computerised textual comparison developed by the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, are " light years apart "; it was reported that the odds of Oxford having written Shakespeare are " lower than the odds of getting hit by lightning ".

Scholars on both sides of the question have believed Polonius is based on Lord Burghley.

Scholars disagree on the date when infant baptism was first practiced.

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

She graduated from Wellesley as one of the 33 Durant Scholars on June 19, 1917, with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy.

Scholars have traditionally focused attention on Melville's treatment of race, and the narrator's portrayal of his hosts as noble savages, but there is considerable disagreement as to what extent the values, attitudes and beliefs expressed are Melville's own, and whether Typee reinforces or challenges racist assessments of Pacific culture.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

Scholars also debate the exact influence of Jewish thought on Durkheim's work.

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.