While still in Pannonia, the Lombards were touched first by Christianity, but only touched: Their conversion and Christianisation was largely nominal and far from complete.

Their conversion was reinforced after 1810.

Their paper was partly a response to Jack Drescher's 2001 paper, " Ethical issues surrounding attempts to change sexual orientation ", which used the principle of " Do no harm " to argue against conversion therapy.

Their conversion was opposed by the landlords, and this year the Assassin negotiators were murdered by Christian knights.

Their apparent preference for hilly terrain may be partly due to the earlier conversion of most of the plains and other low-lying areas to croplands and pastures.

Their website states the reasoning as being that the industry conversion to HDTV is complete, and customers should contact their local providers for options.

Their conversion is considered the first among American and European Buddhists.

Their conversion led to the creation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania to the east of the Carpathians.

Their success was limited, though a couple of highland teips did convert ( conversion was largely by teip ).

Their desire was to place greater evangelical emphasis on such doctrines as repentance, conversion, scriptural discipline and non-conformity to the world.

Their products included electronic test equipment, high fidelity home audio equipment, television receivers, amateur radio equipment, electronic ignition conversion modules for early model cars with point style ignitions, and the influential Heath H-8, H-89, and H-11 hobbyist computers, which were sold in kit form for assembly by the purchaser.

Their cash conversion process is to charge an acceptance fee.

Hutton followed his studies on the Early Modern period with a book on a very different subject, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy ( 1991 ), in which he attempted to " set out what is at present known about the religious beliefs and practices of the British Isles before their conversion to Christianity.

Their Sunday Funday, a 1995 conversion of the Color Dreams game Menace Beach, is one of the last commercial NES releases in the United States.

Their conversion was hastened by the sudden proliferation of Christian missionaries in the area, trying to woo people away from their native beliefs.

Their optic sensors may have artificial intelligence software that allows them to determine what is edible for consumption and energy conversion.

Their first product was a Silent Pellicle Reflex conversion of the Mitchell BNC 35 mm Motion picture camera.

Their most well-known products to date include The Sims, Need For Speed, FIFA Soccer and Madden Football as well as a mobile conversion of the widely-known puzzle game Bejeweled, a conversion for Pocket PC of the PC game Worms World Party and their NFL, NBA, and MLB-branded games, in addition to holding the license for the mobile version of Tetris.

Their hardware had been hacked so the team could analyse the games to ensure an accurate, licensed conversion.

Their accuracy is not generally under dispute, but it should be understood that since they depend on quantum mechanical models involving purely electromagnetic interactions between nuclei and electrons, there may be unforeseen effects which result in a conversion coefficient differing from one that is empirically determined.

Their ways of conversion brought forth indiscriminate intimidation, terror and consequences.

* Their Muslim identity, going back to their conversion to Islam by various Sufi saints who began settling in their territory from the 11th century onwards, and whose shrines / mausoleums or dargahs / mazars today dot the entire countryside in Mewat.

Their ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, which they believed deviated from the true messages of Islam.

" Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers ( salat ), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), almsgiving ( zakat ), and the pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.

Their scepticism and extortion had tired their subjects, and the Abbassid Caliph ( resident in Baghdad ) as well as the faqihs ( Islamic jurists ) gave Yusuf a fatwa authorizing him to remove them due to their disloyalty to Islam by aiding and assisting the Christians against one another.

As further described in the same online source, their ( matrilineal ) adat and their Islam religion each help the other to avoid the extremes of some modern global trends: Their strong belief in and practice of adat helps their Islam religion to not adopt a " simplistic anti-Western " version of Islam, while their strong belief in and practice of both Islam and adat helps the Minangs to limit or avoid some undesired effects of modern global capitalism.

As a historian his works included Origins Of the Ottoman Empire, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources and Islam in Anatolia After the Turkish Invasion: Prolegomena.

* The Kharijites and Their Impact on Contemporary Islam

American author David Frawley wrote, " While Voice of India had a controversial reputation, I found nothing irrational, much less extreme about their ideas or publications ... Their criticisms of Islam were on par with the criticisms of the Catholic Church and of Christianity done by such Western thinkers as Voltaire or Thomas Jefferson.

Their descendants remained unconverted to Islam, but did however adopt elements of Arabic language and culture.

Their efforts organized the Kurdish Peshmerga to defeat Ansar Al Islam in Northern Iraq before the invasion.

“ The identification with the situation of the black minority in the United States went so far as the acceptance of a separatist economic model as promoted by the Nation of Islam, the suggestion being that it is not capitalism as such which is the source of social inequality, but the nationality of the capitalist .” Their lyrics used this sense of ethnic pride and rejected oppression in order to find empowerment.

Their masters would on occasion allow them to secure freedom by professing Islam.

Their religion ranged from Tengrism, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism to Islam.

Their descendants remained unconverted to Islam, but did however adopt elements of Arabic language and culture.

Their actions have been described as " an affront to Islam, all people of faith, and to our society as a whole ... not Christian not American " by the Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference.

Their doctrines probably mixed with radical currents of Shī ‘ a Islam, influencing them and giving rise to later powerful revolutionary-religious movements in the region.

Their unique contribution of long-distance commerce, Islamic scholarship and religious tolerance were significant factors to the peaceful expansion of Islam in West Africa.

Their reverence for Islam notwithstanding, Muslims did not always practice strict adherence to the five pillars.

Their objective is to come to terms with the modern world through the development of a political ideology based on Islam.

Their relationship is a matter of legal conjecture and hair splitting as Pakistani laws allow for a person to be disinherited for leaving Islam ( hence no claim on Pakistani properties of Jinnah ) and Indian laws recognizing religion's traditional succession rules to operate.

Their interpretation of Islam has traditionally being quite liberal and adapted to nomad life ( i. e. generally functioning without mosques ).

Their evasiveness was a necessity, for nonbelievers were ( and still are ) not allowed in areas that are considered to be the holiest places in the world of Islam.