Although private maritime trade and official tribute missions from China had taken place in previous dynasties, the tributary fleet under the Muslim eunuch admiral Zheng He in the 15th century far surpassed all others in size.

They provided accepted avenues for emotional expressions of faith, and the Tarīqas spread to all corners of the Muslim world, and often exercised a degree of political influence inordinate to their size ( take for example the influence that the sheikhs of the Safavid had over the armies of Tamerlane, or the missionary work of Ali-Shir Nava ' i in Turkistan among the Mongol and Tatar people ).

Genghis Khan died in 1227, by which point the Mongol Empire ruled from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea – an empire twice the size of the Roman Empire and Muslim Caliphate.

Most early Muslim accounts place the size of the Muslim forces between 24, 000 and 40, 000 and the number of Byzantine forces between 100, 000 and 400, 000.

Although there are no official statistics of the size of the Sufi Muslim population, some reports estimated between two to five million people practice Sufism compared to approximately 100, 000 before 1979.

* Hujra-i-Anup Talao: Said to be the residence of Akbar's Muslim wife, although this is disputed due to its small size.

There is also a small community of Muslim Sufis but there are no statistics regarding its size.

Although accurate statistics on religion are not available ( because the national census does not solicit religious data ) the actual size of Argentina's Muslim community is estimated around 1 % of the total population ( 400, 000 to 500, 000 members ) according to the International Religious Freedom Report 2010.

These verses highlighted both the chance encounter of the battle ( both sides had blundered into each other ) as well as the underestimation of both the size of Meccan army by the Muslims and the fierceness of the Muslim army by the Meccans.

In most cases, their small poorly-disciplined, ill-equipped militia establishments were ad-hoc formations made of lightly armed and largely untrained Christian or Muslim youths that rarely surpassed the 100-300 fighters ’ mark – about the size of an understrength company or battalion.

There is a small indigenous Sufi Muslim community ; however, there are no statistics regarding its size.

The historian Chihab al-Umari described its size as 20 days travel by six days travel, and its lands were more fertile and with a better climate than its Muslim neighbors.

Da ‘ wah produces converts to Islam, which in turn grows the size of the Muslim Ummah, or community of Muslims.

In the eastern Mediterranean, the Byzantine Empire struggled with the incursion from invading Muslim Arabs from the 7th century, leading to fierce competition, a buildup of fleet, and war galleys of increasing size.

There was a Byzantine and Christian Arab garrison guarding that fair, the size of the garrison was miscalculated by the Muslim informants and it quickly encircled the small Muslim detachment.

Herodotus does not give a figure for the size of the Athenian army.

Herodotus does not estimate the size of the Persian army, only saying that they were a " large infantry that was well packed ".

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of an enemy army.

The Jacobins expanded the size of the army, and Carnot replaced many aristocratic officers with soldiers who had demonstrated their patriotism, if not their ability.

The rashness of Varro did not surprise Fabius, but when Fabius learned of the size of the army ( eighty-eight thousand soldiers ) that Varro had raised, he became quite concerned.

But when he realized the size of the French army at the gates of Pisa, he had to accept the humiliating conditions of the French king.

However, at this high point, his army was reduced in size, as MacColla and the Highlanders preferred to continue the war in the north against the Campbells.

In the meantime, the Romans, hoping to gain success through sheer strength and weight of numbers, raised a new army of unprecedented size, estimated by some to be as large as 100, 000 men, but more likely around 50-80, 000.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

He also increased the size of the regular army from 11, 000 to 15, 000 and introduced general usage of the improved guns that he had used successfully during the Mexican – American War.

However, al-Kamil presumably did not know of the small size of Frederick's army, nor the divisions within it caused by his excommunication, and wished to avoid defending his territories against another crusade.

The German army, mindful of the steadily increasing proportion of spending going to the navy, demanded an increase of 136, 000 men to bring its size closer to that of France.

The army doubled in size and various reforms in composition resulted in a new emphasis on cavalry and smaller units instead of the legion as the main tactical unit.

The 2004 General Peace Agreement stipulated that the size of the army would be 24, 000 ( equally drawn from FAM and RENAMO ), but due to lack of interest ( pay and prospective terms of service were poor ) that figure was never reached.

The size of the army declined from a peak strength of 97, 000 troops to an estimated 15, 200 in 1993, accomplished by voluntary discharges and forced retirements.

Successive attempts to reduce the size of the PNGDF in response to the country's economic problems have provoked fierce resistance ; with the army mutinying in March 2001.

In terms of size, Solano López's 30, 000-man army was the most powerful in Latin America but the army's strength was illusory because it lacked trained leadership, a reliable source of weapons and adequate reserves.

The fighting had simplified politics by eliminating all parties except the Colorados and by reducing the size of the army.

The size of Richard's army has been estimated at 8, 000, Henry's at 5, 000, but exact numbers cannot be known.

Although he came to power with army support, Amanullah alienated many army personnel by reducing both their pay and size of the forces and by altering recruiting patterns to prevent tribal leaders from controlling who joined the service.

Upon seeing the large size of Saladin's army, he made little effort to resist and surrendered on the condition that he would retain his property.

In addition, the government considered reducing the size of the army by 100, 000, although this plan was shelved.

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

It is brought to packing houses, cleaned and graded as to size and quality, and packed in protective excelsior.

Their cost is not beyond the hopes of the American pocketbook, the range being about $150 to $1,000, depending on size.

Tire size can be determined in several ways but the one that is the easiest and as accurate as any is by measuring the effective radius of a wheel and tire assembly.

When tire size is measured in this manner a constant of 168 is used in the formula.

To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.

Therefore, the lumber is bought in planks and ripped to size for battens, etc., on a table saw.

The size of the press is usually expressed in terms of chuck capacity ( the maximum diameter tool shank it will hold ) or distance between the spindle center and the column.

The safest procedure is to let your builder estimate the size of the unit you need, rather than trying to do this yourself.

It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

As mass dealer and distributor organizations grow in size, there is every reason to expect them to try to share in the manufacturer's as well as the distributor's profits -- which is, in effect, what the sale of private brands tends to do.

When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??

However, the conversion from mass to size is unreliable, since many photographic meteors give evidence of a fluffy, loosely bound meteorite structure with densities as low as Af.

The relationship between particle size and infectious dose is illustrated in Table 1.

Almost equal in size to a honeybee, A. armata is much more beautiful in color, at least in the female of the species: a rich, velvety, rusty red.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.