"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This Arabic lectionary is a trace of the pre-Islamic, Christian past of certain Arab communities, who were amongst the first Christians.
- It looked to Egypt's pre-Islamic past and argued that Egypt was part of a larger Mediterranean civilization.
- By the late 19th century French archaeologists were undertaking an intensive effort to uncover north-west Africa's pre-Islamic past through excavations and restorations of archaeological sites.
- In all cases Islamization led to a people's near total rejection of their pagan, pre-Islamic past, such that their ancestral achievements and heritage were either forgotten or actively denigrated.
- Acceptance in Pakistan of futūḥ "salvation history" can be seen in current expressions of alienation from both the political as well as cultural legacies of its pre-Islamic past:
- Among the appeals from around the world to save the statues, many of them priceless antiques dating from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past, have been offers to buy and remove them rather than see them destroyed.
- Now it is waging war on the country's cultural heritage, blowing up treasured statues from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past.
- This imperative, plus the fact that much of the material is contradictory make such asbāb useful only for reconstructing the development of Islamic ideology and identity, rather than the pre-Islamic Arabian past.
- There conversion to Islam is said to have taken over two to three centuries, and the Nashya still retain many cultural traits of their pre-Islamic past.
- Almost immediately, the clerical regime began a vigorous campaign to cleanse the new Islamic Republic of all references not just to the Pahlavis but more generally to the country's pre-Islamic past.
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