Sentences with phrase «whose holy sites»

In his view, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs were part of a greater Hindu rashtra (Hindu polity), while those whose holy sites and loyalties lay elsewhere — i.e., the Abrahamic faiths — were foreign elements and therefore could be expunged.

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It's a name as old as the storied shepherdess of Paddan Aram — a woman so captivating her husband pledged seven years of service in exchange for her hand, a woman whose determination to bear children sent her digging for mandrakes and bargaining with God, a woman brazen enough to steal her father's idols and hide them in a camel saddle, a woman who took her last breath on the side of the road, giving birth, a woman whose tomb survived obscurity, conquest, earthquakes, and riots to become one of the most venerated and contested sites of the Holy Land.

The mountain was also considered a holy site by neighboring Egypt, whose pharaohs plundered and tyrannized Nubia for 400 years.

The libretto, by Peter Sellars, is drawn from original conversations, memoirs, letters, and calculations, as well as songs of the Tewa Indians and the poetry of John Donne, whose «Holy Sonnet XIV» («Batter my heart, three person'd God»), may have inspired Oppenheimer to name the test site «Trinity.»

Immersing the reader in seventh - century Jerusalem, Makiya brings to life K'ab, a Jewish advisor to the fourth caliph of the Islamic empire, who converted to Islam without abandoning Judaism and taught Muslims about the Jewish holy sites, and whose son Ishraq, the novel's narrator, designed the Dome of the Rock, a flashpoint for religious and ethnic tensions ever since.