Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam, the main religion.

They were, however, completely conquered by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, and adopted Islam as a religion.

In 1896, he adopted the title of Zia-ul-Millat-Wa-ud Din (" Light of the nation and religion "); and his zeal for the cause of Islam induced him to publish treatises on jihad.

During the 7th century, Arab armies made their way into the region of Afghanistan from Khorasan with the new religion of Islam.

Islam ( See Islam in Comoros ) is the dominant religion, and Quranic schools for children reinforce its influence.

Muhammad did so to set examples that Islam equates slaves with free human and accepts no discrimination of any kind like race, gender, region, religion etc.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

85 % of the Tigre people adhere to the Islamic religion Sunni Islam, but there are a considerable amount of Christians among them as well ( often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea ).

The Five Pillars of Islam ( ; also " pillars of the religion ") are five basic acts in Islam, considered obligatory by believers.

Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions.

The history of Islam concerns the Islamic religion and its adherents, known as Muslims.

The common slogan al-islam dinun was dawlatun ` ( translation: Islam is a religion and a state ) is neither a Koranic verse nor a quote from the hadith, but a 19th century political Salafi slogan popularized in opposition to Western Egyptian influence.

Over the next few centuries, Islam replaced Christianity as the dominant religion of the region.

In 642 CE, Arabs had conquered most of Persia and from the western city of Herat introduced the religion of Islam as they entered new cities.

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Islam became a court religion under Sundiata's son Uli I ( 1225 – 1270 ).

The unequivocal monotheism of Islam ( often described as the foundation of the religion and its most fundamental article of faith ) arose as a reaction to this belief system.

The earliest evidence of Islamised populations in Indonesia dates to the 13th century in northern Sumatra ; other Indonesian areas gradually adopted Islam which became the dominant religion in Java and Sumatra by the end of the 16th century.

Islamism ( Islam +- ism ;, " Political Islam ", or ) is a set of ideologies holding that Islam is " as much a political ideology as a religion ".

While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the " gold standard " of religion in Muslims ' minds.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

In 1880 the school moved to the Hillside Chapel, a building next to the house, where he held conversations and, over the course of successive summers, as he entered his eighties, invited others to give lectures on themes in philosophy, religion and letters.

In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of " Mashu ", entered a subterranean garden.

The Arcadian cults come from a more primitive religion, and evidently the religious beliefs of the first Greek-speaking people who entered the region, were mixed with the beliefs of the indigenous population.

As a fundamental element of religion, the term " dogma " is assigned to those theological tenets which are considered to be well demonstrated, such that their proposed disputation or revision effectively means that a person no longer accepts the given religion as his or her own, or has entered into a period of personal doubt.

While they were convening, Abraham the Syrian, a man devoted to religion and piety, entered the church.

The first Abrahamic religion was Judaism as practiced in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula subsequent to the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt and continuing as the Hebrews entered the land of Canaan to conquer and settle it.

" For, it must be held by faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church, no one can be saved ; that this is the only ark of salvation ; that he who shall not have entered therein will perish in the flood ; but, on the other hand, it is necessary to hold for certain that they who labor in ignorance of the true religion, if this ignorance is invincible, will not be held guilty of this in the eyes of God.

: i. e., " In those weeks, I truly entered into the spirit of Islam to such an extent that ultimately I became inwardly convinced that I myself was a Muslim, and judiciously discovered that this was the only religion which, even in its doctrinal and official formulation, can satisfy philosophic minds.

Buddhism and science have increasingly been discussed as compatible, and Buddhism has entered into the science and religion dialogue.

He studied the Bible and attended church, but the accounts differ as to whether he determined on his own that there was no existing religion built upon the true teachings of Jesus or whether the idea that all churches were false had not " entered his heart " until he experienced the vision.

After this, Indo-Europeans entered the area and brought with them their Proto-Indo-European religion.

Manichaeism ( called 摩尼教, Monijiao ), an Iranic religion, entered China between the 6th century and the 8th century due to contacts between the Tang Dynasty and states of Central Asia, particularly Tokharistan.

: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ,— as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen ,— and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

The oldest, dating from 1489, commemorates the construction of a synagogue ( 1163 ) ( bearing the name Qīngzhēn Sì, a term often used for mosque in Chinese ), states the Jews entered China from India in the Later Han Dynasty ( 25 – 220 CE ), the Jews ' 70 Chinese surnames, their audience with an " un-named " Song Dynasty Emperor, and finally lists the transmission of their religion from Abraham down to the prophet Ezra.

Other Kongo living outside the Kingdom of Kongo were not converted and continued their traditional form of religion however, and it was not until the late nineteenth century that missionaries entered the areas north of the Kingdom of Kongo.

Benedict Calvert's name was entered at Gray's Inn in 1690, but again his religion proved an impediment to his career.

In 1967, when he entered the Roman Catholic Church's Order of Preachers ( the Dominican order ) he was given the name Matthew Timothy Fox, his " name in religion ".

In terms of Rome, Voltaire criticizes the fact that Britain has entered wars on account of religion ( whereas Rome did not ), but he praises Britain for serving liberty rather than tyranny ( as in Rome ).

Since that day, when my fathers entered into this religion, the God of Israel has humbled all of their enemies, subjecting every folk and tongue round about them, whether Christian, Muslim, or pagan.

In 1803 he entered the cathedral school as a Gymnasiast, whence he was graduated in 1809 with a diploma in metaphysics, mathematics, and the philosophy of religion.