He noted that the preservation of antiquities presented a number of benefits for Muslims:

They are issued in response to questions by ordinary Muslims, and go unnoticed by those not concerned, while the much smaller number of fatwā issued on controversial subjects, such as war, jihad, and dhimmis ( particularly by extremist preachers ), sometimes get wide coverage in the media because of their political content ( see examples below ).

The Gospel of Barnabas was little known outside academic circles until recent times, when a number of Muslims have taken to publishing it to argue against the orthodox Christian conception of Jesus.

He died of dysentery in 1422, leaving a number of unfulfilled plans, one of which was to lead a new crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims.

To do this, they used a number of techniques which Muslims now call the science of hadith.

After independence of Pakistan, large number of Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab, Kashmiri Muslims from the Kashmir Valley, and Gujarati Muslims settle in Karachi.

There also is a small number of Christians and Muslims.

Roman Catholicism is established by law as the religion of Malta with 98 %; however, full liberty of conscience and freedom of worship is guaranteed, and a number of faiths have places of worship on the island ( rather small groups, a combined total of 2 % of the people are Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Muslims and Jews ).

Mosques gradually diffused to different parts of Europe, but the most rapid growth in the number of mosques has occurred within the past century as more Muslims have migrated to the continent.

Some mosques will even rent convention centers or other large public buildings to hold the large number of Muslims who attend.

Mosques, in accordance with Islamic practices, institute a number of rules intended to keep Muslims focused on worshipping God.

However, the Christian majority of the past, constituting around 65 % of the population at one point, has been shrinking, while the number of Muslims has steadily increased to its present 45 % of the population due to immigration from Muslim countries.

A small number of Sunni Muslims can be found along the coastal areas.

The members of these caravans had, in vain, besought his mercy by reciting the truce between the Muslims and the Crusaders, but he ignored this and insulted their prophet Muhammad before murdering and torturing a number of them.

Sufism gained adherents among a number of Muslims as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad Caliphate ( 661-750 CE ).

Though some more traditional Muslims may keep quiet about their vegetarian diet, the number of vegetarian Muslims is increasing.

Two Muslims and an unknown number of Quraysh were killed.

The total number of Muslims involved was 354, 647.

Fisk produced a three-part series titled From Beirut To Bosnia in 1993 which Fisk says was an attempt " to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West.

Islamic influence has also been increasing and there is a sizable number of Ahmadi Muslims ( belonging to Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ) in Majuro.

For instance, a large number of its customers were devout Muslims who believed charging interest on loans — a major pillar of modern banking — was riba, or usury.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

Syllabaries typically contain 50 to 400 glyphs ( though the Múra-Pirahã language of Brazil would require only 24 if it did not denote tone, and Rotokas would require only 30 ), and the glyphs of logographic systems typically number from the many hundreds into the thousands.

Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

The total number of firearms in Brazil is thought to be around 17 million with 9 million of those being unregistered.

In 2005, a referendum was held in Brazil on the sale of firearms and ammunition to attempt to lower the number of deaths due to guns.

For example, there are now only a small number of manufacturers of civil passenger aircraft, though Brazil ( Embraer ) and Canada ( Bombardier ) have participated in the small passenger aircraft market sector.

In Brazil, a president cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms, but there is no limit on the number of terms a president can serve.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

The largest number of slaves were shipped to Brazil.

The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil () comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500.

With this addition Brazil has now overpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted peoples.

Thanks to Dom Pedro II, the second Emperor of Brazil, who encouraged immigration, a large number of Swedes entered Brazil, settling mainly in the cities of Joinville and Ijuí.

In Brazil, as an officially recognised platform or faction of the PT until 1992, the Trotskyist Movimento Convergência Socialista ( CS ), which founded the United Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSTU ) in 1994, saw a number of its members elected to national, state and local legislative bodies during the 1980s.

He was also a renowned Portuguese and Spanish scholar, translating a number of works of those two countries into English and writing both a History of Brazil ( part of his planned History of Portugal which was never completed ) and a History of the Peninsular War.

Due to a clause in the treaty signed between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, the maximum number of generating units allowed to operate simultaneously cannot exceed 18 ( see the agreement section for more information ).

Although tradition has not been kind to Adandozan, he has helped to salvage his own reputation through a substantial number of letters that he, or secretaries in his employ, wrote to various outsiders, especially the kings and other officials of Portugal who fled to Brazil following the conquest of Portugal by Napoleon.

A number of these state visits were reciprocated when Sauvé travelled to represent the Queen in Italy, the Vatican, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, France, Uruguay, and Brazil.

Due to the significant number of Italian immigrants that arrived in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, gnocchi, ñoqui ( Spanish, ) or nhoque ( Portuguese, ) is a popular dish, even in areas with few Italian immigrants.

In most countries, including Australia and all of those in Europe, the " headline " octane rating shown on the pump is the RON, but in Canada, the United States and some other countries, like Brazil, the headline number is the average of the RON and the MON, called the Anti-Knock Index ( AKI, and often written on pumps as ( R + M )/ 2 ).

Following the 1492 expulsion from Spain, and the subsequent expulsions in Portugal ( 1497 ), these Jews, the nascent Sephardim, settled mainly in the Ottoman Empire ( primarily in the province of Bosnia, Anatolia, the Levant and Ottoman North Africa ), Morocco and Algeria, southern France, Italy, Spanish North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic ( Southwest United States New Mexico ( Hispano ), Texas ( Tejano ), Arizona, and Mexico ), Spanish South America and Portuguese Brazil and Goa, as well as the Netherlands, whence a number of families continued on to the former Dutch possessions of Curaçao, Suriname, Aruba and New Netherland ( now New York ), England ( as well as English colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica ), Germany, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Hungary.

During all of this time, production of the Alpine A110 increased and manufacturing deals were struck for A110s and A108s with factories in a number of other countries including Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Bulgaria.