One of Avicenna's important Persian work is the Daaneshnaame ( literally: the book of knowledge ) for Prince ' Ala ad-Daulah ( the local Buyid ruler ).

Earlier in 870, Yaqub bin Laith as-Saffar, a local ruler from the Saffarid dynasty of Zaranj, Afghanistan, conquered most of present-day Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

In 870, Ya ' qub-i Laith Saffari, a local Persian ruler from the Saffarid dynasty of Zaranj, Afghanistan, conquered most of the cities of present-day Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

One of Ahmad Shah's first military action was the capture Ghazni from the Ghilzais, and then wresting Kabul from the local ruler.

This is similar to the other Greek titles basileus and autokrator, which, along with despot, have been used at various times to describe everything from a local chieftain to a simple ruler, king or emperor.

These clubs commonly crossed social strata, including among their membership local notables, dhimmi and slaves – to the exclusion of those associated with the local ruler, or amir.

The culmination of Islamic dominance in the region occurred in 1557 when an Ottoman invasion during the time of Suleiman I and under Özdemir Pasha ( who had declared the province of Habesh in 1555 ) took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq ( ruler of Midri Bahri ).

The cornerstone of the Maratha rule in Malwa rested on the 60 or so local tax collectors ( kamavisdars ) who advanced the Maratha ruler '( Peshwa )' a portion of their district revenues at interest.

In 870 AD, Yaqub ibn Layth Saffari, a local ruler of the Saffarid dynasty conquered Herat and the rest of the nearby regions in the name of Islam.

The land became divided among local rulers, one of whom is known by name: Miecław, ruler of Masovia.

Whoever Karl Hundason may have been, it appears that the saga is reporting a local conflict with a Scots ruler of Moray or Ross:

Pius condemned slavery of newly-baptised Christians as a " great crime " in an address of 1462 to the local ruler of the Canary Islands.

After the establishment of a local Emirate, Caliph Al-Walid I, ruler of the Umayyad caliphate, removed many of the successful Muslim commanders.

Alexander the Great managed to marry Roxana, the daughter of a local ruler, and inherited his land.

Independence came in 1991, as Saparmurat Niyazov, a former local communist party boss, declared himself absolute ruler for life as Turkmenbashi or Leader of the Turkmen and transitioned the newly independent Turkmenistan into an authoritarian state under his absolute control and has thus far resisted the democratization that has influenced many of the other former Soviet Republics.

Under the name, he first joined the Imagawa clan as a servant to a local ruler named Matsushita Yukitsuna.

Rurik also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or invitation by local people of the city of Novgorod ( which means " new city ") on the Volkhov River.

* June – James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin ( now Aceh ), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler.

In 561, the Avars captured Bessarabia and executed the local ruler Mesamer.

The city was spared destruction by the invading Mongols, when its local ruler offered tributes and submission to Genghis Khan.

Houtman's expedition then sailed east along the north coast of Java, losing twelve crew to a Javanese attack at Sidayu and killing a local ruler in Madura.

A location in the west of the archipelago was thus sought ; the Straits of Malacca were strategic, but had become dangerous following the Portuguese conquest and the first permanent VOC settlement in Banten was controlled by a powerful local ruler and subject to stiff competition from Chinese and English traders.

The Hanoi area formerly held by the Han and Jin dynasties was easily recovered from the local ruler in 602.

In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

There was a time some years ago when local taxation by the cities and towns was sufficient to support their own operations and a part of the cost of the state government as well.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

He was again reclassified 1-a by the local board.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Upon return of the file to the local board, petitioner was again ordered to report for induction and this prosecution followed his failure to do so.

But the statement of the local board attributing this claim to petitioner was in his file.

Petitioner knew that the Department's recommendation was based not on the hearing officer's report but on the statement of the local board in his file.

While Grothendieck lived in Chambon, he attended the Collège Cévenol ( now known as the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International ), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists.

In some smaller Protestant denominations and independent churches the term bishop is used in the same way as pastor, to refer to the leader of the local congregation, and may be male or female.

Protestant churches typically require a Masters of Divinity, accreditation by the denomination and ordination by the local church in order for a minister to become a " Reverend ".

# Protestant congregations: local congregations from different church bodies that have merged

The Party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.

At this time, many local dukes saw it as a chance to oppose the hegemony of Emperor Charles V. The empire then became fatally divided along religious lines, with the north, the east, and many of the major cities — Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg — becoming Protestant while the southern and western regions largely remained Catholic.

During the period of German Empire the Germanisation policies in Masuria became more effective ; children using Polish in playgrounds and classrooms were widely punished by corporal punishment, authorities tried to appoint Protestant pastors who would use German instead of Polish which resulted in protests of local population.

The Protestant Viadrina University of Frankfurt ( Oder ) was relocated to Breslau in 1811, and united with the local Jesuit University to create the new Silesian Frederick-William University ( Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, now University of Wrocław ).

Many local nobles converted to Protestantism during the Protestant Reformation, but the region was converted back to Roman Catholicism during the Counter-Reformation.

At the same time, plans were being drawn up for a Reformed programme of parish worship and preaching, as local communities sought out Protestant ministers.

Although Charles V resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely with moderation and regard for local customs, and he did not persecute his Protestant subjects on a large scale.

The availability of the Bible in local ( vernacular ) languages was important to the spread of the Protestant movement and the development of the Reformed church in France, and the country had a long history of struggles with the papacy by the time the Protestant Reformation finally arrived.

One day later, his killing spree resumed when he beat-to-death a local Protestant man with a learning disability in the Loyalist Club in Rumford Street.

Subsequently however, sympathetic Irish Catholic ( or nominally Protestant ) local landowners housed monks or friars close to several ruined religious houses allowing them a continued covert existence during the 17th and 18th centuries, subject to the dangers of discovery and legal ejection or imprisonment.

The majority of the local population is of Catholic persuasion, an exception ( together with Lichtenvoorde ) in the mainly Protestant region.

In the 16th and 17th century, the whole Waasland was in the line of fire between Protestant Netherlands and Catholic Spain, often with terrible consequences for the local population.

Because they were a Protestant family, Antoine could not attend local schools, and his mother educated him herself.

Until the Protestant Reformation, a chapel denoted a place of worship that was either at a secondary location that was not the main responsibility of the local parish priest, or that belonged to a person or institution.

While he was there, his parents moved to Maidenhead in England and, after a year, he was moved to a local school called Lambrook-a Protestant establishment attended by his younger brothers-whereupon his stutter vanished.

Although Aiken then released the Protestant civilians unharmed, the incident heightened local sectarian animosity.

The local burial ground, Myrtle Hill Cemetery on Myrtle Street, situated on the western border of the village, was a Protestant cemetery.

Essentially, therefore, the Brethren have no central hierarchy to dictate a statement of faith, and even local assemblies tend not to give tacit adherence to any of the historic " Creeds " and " Confessions of Faith " such as are found in many Protestant denominations.