Sentences with phrase «shah jahan»

Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah was entering the mosque in Srinagar to lead Friday prayers when an improvised explosive device detonated, Srinagar district police chief Ashiq Bukhari said.

His son, Shah Isma`il, was the founder of the Safavid dynasty in Iran which made Shi`a the official religion of the country.

Ever since Shah Isma`il established the rule of the Safavid family at the beginning of the tenth century of the Hijrah (sixteenth century AD.)

Bit of trivia,,, search will yield you two people Elvis and Shah A. Noorani.

His Muslim name was Azmi Mohamad Azam Shah.

Over against these highly macroscopic designations, some studies have taken a much more specific spatial and temporal orientation, focusing for example on a specific event such as the overthrow of the shah in Iran or a series of related episodes such as the conflicts between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.

At the time of the Arab invasion of Persia in AD 636, many refugees including the Persian Shah, found shelter in China.

However, it should be pointed out that the reason many Iranians distrust Bahais is that the group generally supported of their previous dictator, the Shah.

Aaron Shah has been playing worship music on the streets for the past 18 months in Newcastle.

In a largely nonviolent process, Iranians toppled one of the most affluent and powerful leaders, the shah.

The Shah of Iran was hated because he was so eager for the approval of the West that he seemed to grovel, especially to the Americans.

Cragg sees, for example, a bond between Lancelot Andrewes and Shah «Abd al - Latif, between Francis of Assisi and al - Ghazali, and between S0ren Kierkegaard and «Abd alQadir al - Jilani.

And the Shi'ite Muslims in Iran today will not let us be content with the notion that only communists or the politically repressed were doing battle with the shah.

Grimes DA, Benson J, Singh S, Romero M, Ganatra B, Okonofua FE, Shah IH.

Their power was crushed by the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abdali, in 1175 (A.D. 1761).

Shah Walliyulla, he regrets, has rejected this view, but he himself believes in the truth of this simile.

Dara Shikoh, the son of Shah Jahan, was in his early life influenced by the liberalism of the Sufis, as distinct from the orthodoxy of the ulama, and later began to take increasing interest in the Hindu religion.

Alone among his contemporaries Shah Walliyulla was conscious of the period of disintegration through which Muslim culture was passing and recognized the need for a mental transformation to cope with the changing situation.

Although it was a time of disintegration, the age of decline produced one thinker and scholar of great profundity, Shah Walliyulla (died 1180; A.D. 1766), rated by some as superior to Ghazali and Lbn Rushd (Averroes).

Among the tombs of great saints which attract large crowds are those of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in Bhit Shah in the Sind, Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Hajji Waris Ali Shah in Dewan in Uttar Pradesh, Yousuf Sharif Shah in Hyderabad, Deccan, and Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi — as well as those of many other famous saints and thousands of lesser local saints.

Ubaidulla's main contribution lies in popularizing the philosophy of Shah Walliyulla, whom he believed to be the greatest thinker of Islam.

Shah Jahan founded an imperial college at Delhi and Aurangzeb founded numberless colleges and schools.

Shah Jahan, famous as the builder of the Taj Mahal, was emperor from 1038 until 1070 (A.D. 1628 - 59), when the control of the government was taken over by his son Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors, who died in 1119 (A.D. 1707).

And only those who deny the reality of terrorism and torture in the Algerian War, the Vietnam War, the shah's Iran, the Afghan «occupation,» the Philippines under Marcos, or the current struggles in Central America, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Beirut attribute terrorism and torture to a single political ideology or economic system.

«This is very surprising,» said Timothy Shah, senior research scholar at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University.

Film Farsi refers to the vulgar genre films and Bollywood knockoffs that were popular under the shah, typically featuring women in miniskirts and scenes of debauchery in second - rate cabarets.

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

To the militants, the shah was as brutal and vicious as Adolf Hitler; they were reacting to the US.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke after returning from Washington for the latest round of high - level strategic talks with the Obama administration.

The shah was a progressive ruler who wanted the best for his country.

Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford, was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow after admitting the murder of Asad Shah in Glasgow in March.

Muslim DJ, Imy Shah will cycle 1,500 km without food and water to fundraise for Christian charity, Tearfund.

Many idealistic commentators predicted that from these protests there would emerge a «color revolution» in the country that, in the 1978 rebellion against the shah, became the founding state of political Islam.

Hundreds of people attended a vigil after Asad Shah's murder in the Shawlands area of Glasgow and both Christians and Muslims attended his funeral.

The Rev Val Duff, minister of South Shawlands Parish Church close to where Asad Shah's shop was, said at the time: «Like many people I am deeply saddened to hear of Asad Shah's death.

After the Shah left (supposedly for vacation) there was little left for Carter to do other than try to get his hostages back.

Mr Ahmed claimed to have been offended by clips Mr Shah had posted online which he said «disrespected the Prophet Muhammad».

The goal of the movement was the same as in Egypt, to remove the Shah (or in Egypt's case the President), and replace him with a democratically elected government.

Police have said his attack on Mr Shah was «religiously prejudiced» however it is not because of his reference to Christianity on Facebook (below), but because he was a member of the Ahmadiyya branch of Islam.

Do I need to tell you about our continuous funding for the repressive regime of the Shah from Eisenhower to Carter?

Who supports, extremist Egyptian, Saudi, Algerian, Pakistani, Iranian (Shah), Muhajideen (Afghano - Soviet)?

Agence France - Presse's chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, and five other journalists were among more than two dozen people killed in twin suicide blasts in the Afghan capital.

Here, Shah Jehan was held captive by his son, and spent his days gazing out from his room towards the Taj Mahal across the river.

«The president strongly, clearly and has consistently denied these underlying claims,» Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, said last month.

In the April 2016 version of their paper entitled «Combining Value and Momentum», Gregg Fisher, Ronnie Shah and Sheridan Titman examine long - only stock portfolios that seek exposure to both value and momentum while suppressing trading frictions.

White House spokesman Raj Shah said Monday that Jackson remains assigned to the White House, but didn't address the report in a statement.

Mr. Shah holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified Professional Accountant (Illinois).

Mr. Shah is also the Chief Financial Officer of Alignvest Capital Management Inc. and Alignvest Investment Management Corporation.

Prior to joining StorageNow, Mr. Shah was a Senior Manager at KPMG LLP, a global professional services firm, where he specialized in providing audit and advisory services to publicly - listed technology companies in Canada and the United States.