When the latter was surrounded by Umayyad troops, he sued for help to Ibn Hafsun, but the latter was defeated by the besiegers and returned to Bobastro.

When describing Damascus, Mecca, Medina and some other places in the Middle East, Ibn Juzayy clearly copied passages from the 12th-century account by Ibn Jubayr.

When U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented a Douglas DC-3 as a gift to King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud in 1945, the event marked the Kingdom's gradual development of civil aviation.

When his family fled Spain, for Fez, Maimonides enrolled in the Academy of Fez and studied under Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Kohen Ibn Soussan-a student of Isaac Alfasi.

When the jurists heard this commentary, they felt sorry for unjustly exposing Ibn ‘ Arabī to scathing criticism ( Yūsuf 335 ).

When Tripoli was visited by Ibn Batutah in 1355, he described the newly founded Mamluk city.

When he was ultimately banned from having any books, papers and pens during the latter stage of his final imprisonment, Ibn Taymiyyah devoted all of his time to worship and reciting the Qur ' an.

When Harold Hoskins of the U. S State Department visited Ibn Saud in August 1943, he asked if the king would be willing to have an intermediary meet with Chaim Weizmann.

When speaking of the pre-Islamic " Khosrau of Khwarezm " ( خسرو خوارزم ), or post-Islamic " Amir of Khwarezm " ( امیر خوارزم ), or even the Khwarezmid Empire, sources such as Biruni and Ibn Khordadbeh and others clearly refer to Khwarezm as being part of the Iranian ( Persian ) empire.

When American forces sifted through the rubble of his house, they found a number of videocassettes, including five that carried martyrdom messages from Abderraouf Jdey, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Muhammad Sa ' id Ali Hasan, Abd Al-Rahim, and Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani.

When he was 13 years old Al-Mu ' tamid's father made his son Emir of Seville and appointed the Andalusi Arabic poet Ibn Ammar as his vizier.

When Al-Mu ' tamid succeeded his father he recalled Ibn Ammar and bestowed high political and military favours on him.

When he asks his teacher, a Sufi, why a land whose people obeys the tenets of Islam suffers so, Ibn Fattouma is told the answer he seeks lies far away from the city.

When al -' Adil had gone to sleep, that prefect notified Ibn -' Abbas who, with six of his attendants, made an assault upon him in the house in which he was sleeping and killed him.

When Ibn Tumart died in 1128 at his Ribat in Tinmel, after suffering a severe defeat by the Almoravids, Abd al-Mu ' min kept his death secret for two years, until his own influence was established.

When the later historian Ibn Khaldun came to write his account, he placed her with the Jrāwa tribe.

When Moroccan traveler and historian Ibn Battuta visited there in the 14th century, the Maldives was trading extensively with the money shells.

When his father was deposed by al-Mu ' tadid he moved to Córdoba where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the historian Ibn Hayyan.

When they were intercepted by an army of Ibn Hud near the Guadalete river, the battle of Jerez occurred.

When he reached the palace, he found al-Mustansir lodged in rooms which had been stripped bare, waited on by only three slaves, and subsisting on two loaves which were sent him daily by the daughters of Ibn Babshand, the grammarian.

When the emir's own scholars reminded him the Almoravids too embraed puritanical ideals, and were committed to the Sunnah, Ibn Tumart pointed out that the Almoravids professed puritanism had been clouded and deviated by " obscurantists ", drawing attention to the ample evidence of laxity and impiety that prevailed in their dominions.

When countered that at least on points of doctrine, there was little difference between them, Ibn Tumart brought out more emphasis on his own peculiar doctrines on the tawhid and the attributes.

When the Tahirid dynasty of Khorasan came south to take control of the region, Ya ' qub was fighting in 852 under a local commander of Bost ( now Lashkar Gah ), Salih Ibn an-Nadr.

When the boat had touched, the weaker ones and the two wounded men had been lifted out and carried away by the soldiers.

When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.

When he strengthened his presidential guard ( creating the FORSIDIR, see below ), he Libya sent him 300 additional soldiers for his own personal safety.

When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad ’ Dib ’ s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar jihad, destroying the traditional structures of government and leaving billions dead.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

When the army reached Bithynia, some of the soldiers smelled an odor emanating from the coach.

When relations between Prince Jayawikarta and the Dutch deteriorated, Jayawikarta's soldiers attacked the Dutch fortress.

When the threat of invasion faded, John formed a large military force in England intended for Poitou, and a large fleet with soldiers under his own command intended for Normandy.

When, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the League accused Italian soldiers of targeting Red Cross medical tents, Benito Mussolini responded that " the League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

* When the Soviet Union was defeated, the labor shortage in German industry could be relieved by demobilization of many soldiers.

When night fell, Olga bade her soldiers release the pigeons and the sparrows.

When an armed attack is made upon the enemy, let this one cry be raised by all the soldiers of God: It is the will of God!

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

When Van Slechtenhorst refused, Stuyvesant sent a group of soldiers to enforce his orders.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

When an Apache war chief wipes out a company and kidnaps several children, Dundee throws together a makeshift army, including unwilling Confederate veterans, black Federal soldiers, and traditional Western types, and takes off after the Indians.

When the news reached Stephen, he held a council to decide whether to give battle or to withdraw and gather additional soldiers: Stephen decided to fight, resulting in the battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141.

When they refused to go, 15 soldiers were arrested and court martialed, of whom 6 were sentenced to death.

When Goldstein was threatened with court-martial for refusing to treat non-Jewish soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force, he declared: " I am not willing to treat any non-Jew.

When the need arose for soldiers it hired mercenaries or financed allies who fielded armies.

When Spartans died, marked headstones would only be granted to soldiers who died in combat during a victorious campaign or women who died either in service of a divine office or in childbirth.