Sunni Islam and Shi'i Islam, due to their divergent beliefs regarding the persistence of divine authority, have different views on ijtihad and the qualifications required to achieve mujtahid.

Eventually their divergent beliefs and values brought Sekgoma and Khama into open conflict.

Without a strong leader such as the Emperor Constantine, the church continues to fracture into a multitude of divergent beliefs.

As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.

But the nature of divergent or secessionist belief was undergoing change.

History painting faded out as its universe of symbols was shattered by the increasingly divergent beliefs of modern society, and as interest developed in art as a more personal form of expression.

However, Rap'Adio could not survive the strong personalities and divergent beliefs of its members and eventually split.

For years, Jews and Arabs have raised children here and taught them to believe that in Sunset Park it is possible for people of divergent beliefs to coexist.

Disease and divergent religious beliefs played as great a role as the forces of war in the 16th-century defeat of the Aztecs by the Spaniards.

But Harvey Weinstein acknowledged what he said Robert A. Iger, the new Disney chief executive, had called the "divergent beliefs" of the two sides.