And not one of the four men who attended all the schools has ever been called on to apply any of his knowledge in any way.

Plate 12 illustrates four examples, which are Ripe or Late Geometric work of common spirit but of different schools.

-- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill of Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties.

It is designated as Stage 1 Residential on the Redevelopment Authority's master plan and will feature row houses, garden apartments, four small parks, schools, churches, a shopping center and several small clusters of stores.

In another four weeks, with schools closed across the nation, the great all-American summer safari will be under way.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

These programs are divided into 15 colleges and schools which are spread across ASU's four campuses.

Based on the English school system, primary schools teach children from four to 11 years, while high schools handle 11 to 16 year-olds.

Of the many schools founded at this time and during the subsequent Warring States Period, the four most influential ones were Confucianism, Daoism ( often spelled " Taoism "), Mohism and Legalism.

Eventually, the system grew to include seven senior colleges, four hybrid schools, seven community colleges, as well as graduate schools and professional programs.

Drexel today is composed of nine colleges and four schools

Of the ten state-run voucher programs in the United States at the beginning of 2011, however, four targeted low-income students, two targeted students in failing schools, and six targeted students with special needs.

More than 1500 students over four years were compared to an equal number of carefully matched students at conventional schools.

There are four prominent schools ( madh ' hab ) of fiqh within Sunni practice and two within Shi ' a practice.

* The four classical Sunni schools are, in chronological order: the Hanafi school, the Maliki school, the Shafi ' i school and the Hanbali school.

These four schools share most of their rulings, but differ on the particular hadiths they accept as authentic and the weight they give to analogy or reason ( qiyas ) in deciding difficulties.

Of these, 45 are primary schools, ten are secondary schools, six are for Baccalaureate students and four are vocational colleges.

Galen's education had exposed him to the four major schools of thought ( Platonists, Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans ), with teachers from the Rationalist sect and from the Empiricist sect.

In recent decades there have been four main schools of historiography regarding India: Cambridge, Nationalist, Marxist, and subaltern.

Hezbollah currently operates at least four hospitals, twelve clinics, twelve schools and two agricultural centres that provide farmers with technical assistance and training.

He wrote, " There exist in the West numerous subdivisions of the schools which have different origins, but there are only four principal schools of continuous tradition.

There are a multitude of scholarly opinions in each field ; however, these can be summarised as either derived from the four major schools of thought ( Madh ' hab ) or from an expert scholar who exercises independent derivation of Islamic Law ( ijtihad ).

However other contemporary scholars such as Nuh Ha Mim Keller, a Sheikh in the Shadili Order hold that the criticism of kalam from early scholars was specific to the Mu ' tazila, going on to claim that other historical Muslim scholars such as Al-Ghazali, As-Subki, An-Nawawi and even the four Madh ' hab saw both good and bad in kalam and cautioned from the speculative excess of unorthodox groups such as the Mu ' tazilah and Jahmiyya.

* Traditionalism, which accepts traditional commentaries on the Quran and Sunna and " takes as its basic principle imitation ( taqlid ), that is, refusal to innovate ", and follows one of the four legal schools or Madh ' hab ( Shaf ' i, Maliki, Hanafi, Hanbali ) and, may include Sufism.

This included even the traditional Sunni four schools ( Madh ' hab ) of fiqh.

As the Salafi da ' wa is a methodology and not a madh ' hab in fiqh as commonly misunderstood, Salafis can come from the Maliki, Shafi ' i, Hanbali or the Hanafi schools of Sunni jurisprudence and accept teaching of all four if supported by clear and authenticated evidence from the Sunnah.

Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims differ on the legitimacy of the reigns of the Khulfa-e-Rashideen, the first four Caliphs.

for a recognized religious scholar or authority in Islam, often for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs, or schools of jurisprudence ( fiqh ).

The rule of the Al Saud faces political opposition from four sources: Sunni Islamist activism ; liberal critics ; the Shi ' ite minority – particularly in the Eastern Province ; and long-standing tribal and regional particularistic opponents ( for example in the Hejaz ).

A Sunni Muslim divorce is effective when the man tells his wife that he is divorcing her, however a Shia divorce also requires four witnesses.

The traditional chronology places Surah 9 as the last or second-to-last surah revealed, thus, in traditional exegesis, it gains a large power of abrogation, and verses 9: 5, 29, 73 are held to have abrogated 2: 256 The ahadith also play a major role in this, and different schools of thought assign different weightings and rulings of authenticity to different hadith, with the four schools of Sunni thought accepting the Six Authentic Collections, generally along with the Muwatta Imam Malik.

The term also describes the four branches of Judaism ( Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist ), and describes the two main branches of Islam ( Sunni and Shia ).

The Hanafi ( ) school is one of the four Madhhabs ( schools of law ) in jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) within Sunni Islam.

Among the four established Sunni schools of legal thought in Islam, the Hanafi school is one of the oldest and by far, the largest in parts of the world.

The Hanafi school also has many followers among the four major Sunni schools.

Although the Ayyubids were from the Shafi ' i denomination, they built schools for imparting instruction in all four of the Sunni systems of religious-juridical thought.

The first four Caliphs were elected in this fashion as Sunni Muslims believed Muhammad had originally intended before Muawiyah, the fifth caliph, turned the Caliphate into what is known as the Umayyad Dynasty, a hereditary monarchy.

In Sunni Islam, the first four elected caliphs were remembered as the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs.

All four major Sunni schools of thought hold that whoever follows another religion besides Islam is an unbeliever ( kafir ).

It is said that Sunni Islam was initially split into six schools ( Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi ' i, Hanbali, Zahiri, Jariri ) before various ruling dynasties later narrowed the number down to four, with the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt eventually creating four independent judicial positions, thus solidifying the Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi ' i and Hanbali schools.

The four mainstream schools of Sunni jurisprudence today, named after their founders ( sometimes called the A ’ immah Arba ‘ a or four Imaams of Fiqh ), are not generally seen as distinct sects, as there has been harmony for the most part among their various scholars throughout Islamic history.

Generally, Sunni Muslims prefer one madhhab out of the four ( normally a regional preference ) but also believe that ijtihad must be exercised by the contemporary scholars capable of doing so.

" The Maliki Madhab, named after Malik, is one of the four schools of jurisprudence that are followed by Sunni Muslims to this day.

On August 30, 2003, Iraqi authorities arrested four people in connection with the bombing: two former members of the Ba ' ath Party from Basra, and two non-Iraqi Arabs from the Salafi sect ( a Sunni sect ).

In particular, the Mahdi abolished the four Sunni schools of jurisprudence ( Arabic: madhahib, مذاهب ), rejected all authoritative texts in the history of tafsir or Qur ' anic exegesis, changed the Sha ' hada, or profession of faith, to include the phrase, " Muhammad al-Mahdi is the Khalifa of the Prophet of God ," and revised the five pillars of Islam by replacing the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca with the obligation to undertake jihad, and adding a sixth pillar, which was belief in the Mahdiyya.