The divisional sign, of a red circle on a black background which gave the division its nickname, was selected after the first selection of a boar's head was deemed offensive to Moslem soldiers and every other animal suggested had already been selected by other newly-raised divisions.

The New York Times reported a memorandum of the World Jewish Congress expressing concerns about this situation in the edition of 16 May 1948 in an article enitled: " Jews in grave danger in all Moslem lands: Nine hundred thousand in Africa and Asia face the wrath of their foes ".

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

" Louis Gustave and Charles Strauss in Moslem and Frank ; or, Charles Martel and the rescue of Europe said " The victory gained was decisive and final, The torrent of Arab conquest was rolled back and Europe was rescued from the threatened yoke of the Saracens.

Some Muslims criticize CAIR for being overly conservative from a religious standpoint, for example by taking the disputed position that all Moslem women are required to veil their hair.

An alternate suggestion is that the weights come from the Moslem domains by way of the Gold Dirhem ( 47. 966 British Imperial grains ), in the manner that King Offa's weights were derived from the silver Dirhem ( about 45. 0 British grains ).

In the Moslem world, land reforms such as that organized in Spain by al-Hurr in 718 have transferred property from Muslims to Christians, who were taxable by much higher rates.

Religious tolerance was an important factor in a multiethnic and multi-religious state, as the territories of the Commonwealth were inhabited by many generations of people from different ethnic backgrounds ( Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenian, Germans and Jews ) and of different denominations ( Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish and even Moslem ).

A story from " Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish " by J. E. Hanauer tells of a soldier with a gambling addiction avoiding Azrael.

In the face of opposition from conservative Moslem groups in Indonesia, the planned Lady Gaga show was cancelled.

Archeological excavations have revealed remains from the Roman and Persian as well as early and late Moslem periods.

In around 1565, Islam was extensively spread in Kartanegara by two Moslem preachers from Java, Tunggang Parangan and Ri Bandang.

When Tanec first came to America in 1956, they performed čoček as a Moslem woman ’ s dance, " Ќupurlika " from Titov Veles.

In the more detailed Chronicle of the Goths, Ismar waited until Henriques penetrated into Moslem territory, then systematically sent his troops from Seville, Badajoz, Elvas, Évora and Beja against the Portuguese count.

Calafia meets Radiaro, a Moslem warrior who convinces her that she should join him in retaking Constantinople from the Christian armies holding it.

Landing near Constantinople, Calafia meets with other Moslem warrior leaders who were unable to remove King Amadis and his Christian allies from the city, and she tells them all to hold back and watch her manner of combat — she says they will be amazed.

The griffins, however, cannot tell Moslem from Christian ; they can only tell man from woman.

Barangay Oring-Oring, located some 7 km from Poblacion proper is the birthplace of the World ’ s Biggest Pearl ; known throughout the world as the Pearl of Allah or the Pearl of Lau-Tzu, this 14. 1-pound porcelaneous pearl was found by a native Moslem in the seas of Oring-Oring.

Volga Bulgaria's Muslim community preferred to call themselves Muslims ( Möselmannar ), but used the word Bolghar to distinguish themselves from nomadic Moslem Kipchaks.

" The Panic " is followed by " The Plague " ( reportedly, according to Smallways, from "... some high place or other, Thibet, I think ..."), which, combined with the world war, the effects of the Panic, and " a Moslem insurrection from Gobi to Morocco ... the jehad ", results in the total collapse of organised society.

The earliest sense of a modern Lebanese identity is to be found in the writings of historians in the early nineteenth century, when, under the emirate of the Shihabs, a Lebanese identity emerged, " separate and distinct from the rest of Syria, bringing the Maronites and Druzes, along with its other Christian and Moslem sects, under one government.

While this was going on messengers from the Sultans went to the Moslem commanders in the Vijayanagaran army and appealed to their religious duty of Jihad and secured their alliance to launch a subversive attack.

Moslem horsemen roved over the countryside extorting money and goods from the people.

A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

As a Frankish garrison of the Kingdom of Jerusalem its defence was precarious, being ' little more than an island in a Moslem ocean '.

# An obstruction to the consent of the Arabs to the peaceful and prosperous settlement in Palestine of hundreds of thousands of suffering European Jews, the victims of Nazi atrocities ; and provocative of Moslem antagonism within and beyond the Empire, and consequently a danger to its integrity and safety.

Isaacs said " the Zionist movement as a whole ... now places its own unwarranted interpretation on the Balfour Declaration, and makes demands that are arousing the antagonism of the Moslem world of nearly 400 millions, thereby menacing the safety of our Empire, endangering world peace and imperiling some of the most sacred associations of the Jewish, Christian, and Moslem faiths.

The Early Romance of Moslem Spain was known to its users as latinus.

While various philosophers had influenced Christendom since its earliest times, in Western Europe Aristotle became " the Philosopher " under the influence of the Spanish Moslem philosopher Averroes.

Amazingly, in the very short span of a year or so, the small gang of Khmer Rouge wiped out the center of Cambodian culture, its spiritual incarnation, its institutions .... As part of a planned genocide campaign, the Khmer Rouge sought out and killed other minorities, such as the Moslem Cham.

His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem law.

After the Moslem invasion of Lisbon in 716, the position of its bishopric was " vacant ".

Examines Webb's newspaper, The Moslem World, and its offshoots and presents a brief overview of a rival publication, The American Moslem.

Explores Mohammed Webb's American Islamic Propaganda movement and relations with its splinter groups the First Society for the Study of Islam in America and the American Moslem Institute.

Beside Religion College of Islam Lukman Al Hakim ( STAIL ) in Surabaya and Moslem Law Science College of Hidayatullah ( STIS ) in Balikpapan as education institute for da ' i cadre, Hidayatullah is starting Management Science College in Depok that is expected can yield grads that able to manage the Hidayatullah charitable efforts including economic efforts.

( b ,) The world at the beginning of the eighth century ( Christianity on the point of being crushed by the Muslim | Moslem s .).

At this point the Sultans signaled to the Moslem officers in the Vijayanagaran army to launch a subversive attack.

Despite all these disadvantages the greatest reason of loss was betrayed by two Muslim commanders ( Gilani Brothers ) of Vijaynagara Army. At the critical point of war Moslem officers in the Vijayanagaran army to launch a subversive attack.

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur ' an — which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad — and, with lesser authority than the Qur ' an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts, called hadith.

There are extant several notable fatwās ( responsa ) of Moslem doctors touching this subject ; e. g., those of Aḥmad ibn ' Abd al-Ḥaḳḳ, who speaks especially of the synagogues at Cairo, which on the outside appeared like ordinary dwelling-houses — a fact which had occasioned other legal writers to permit their presence.

In 1628, a larger raiding force of about 200 Spanish army officers and 1, 600 soldiers was organized to attack Jolo again-in order to break the backs of the Moslem slave raiders and traders.

Of the rest of the population, there are 21 individuals ( or about 0. 34 % of the population ) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, 4. 3 % were Moslem, 1. 1 % were Christian-Orthodox and 1. 0 % belonged to a different religion.

:: 8. 7a " Following an incident in Abu-Dis, which ended in the deaths of a number of members of Az-A-Din Al-Qassam Hamas, emotions ran high among the Moslem worshipers ( about two hundred ), who shouted hostile slogans (" Qassam ", " kill the Jews "), the Jewish worshipers, making it necessary to call in army and Border Police forces.

The heads were " strung about the walls of the Moslem garrison like a garland of flowers.

The new colony hall been established about eight months, the land having been purchased from the Moslem villagers, of whom twenty families remained, who lived on terms of perfect amity with the Jews.