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...We stayed for our wedding and Christian, Alex and Matteo could not have been better hosts....
...Also: Louboutin, Irving and Medina are not Portuguese. “If you’re not from the country, you have a different perspective....
...The backdrop is Jnane Tamsna, a hotel in Marrakech’s Palmeraie oasis, with candlelit group dinners and trips to the 11th-century Medina....
...It reveals some uncomfortable historical truths – including the bloody Christian conquest of Moorish Spain. I love Maalouf’s writing – and, as a Moroccan, I feel a deep connection to Andalucía....
...This would be a tricky decision for the House of Saud, custodians of Islam’s holy cities of Mecca and Medina....
...Saudi kings go by the title Custodians of the Holy Mosques (of Mecca and Medina), from which the al-Saud dynasty draws legitimacy....
...Rima Suqi galeriehalf.com Galerie du Passage, ParisTucked into the glass-roofed Galerie Véro-Dodat is a treasure trove that has been visited by Princess Caroline of Monaco and Christian Louboutin....
...holy to Muslims as well as Jews and Christians — is playing with fire....
...The Saudi king is the self-styled leader of Sunni Islam and al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is considered the third holiest site in Islam, after the mosques at Mecca and Medina....
...By tradition as well as by Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty with Israel, the Hashemites are the guardians of Jerusalem’s Islamic (and Christian) holy places....
...The image is of a radiant medieval stained-glass window from a Christian church; the simple slogan reads “We live by the same light”....
...That too must come at a cost for a ruling family that sees itself as custodian of Mecca and Medina, champion of Islam worldwide and nearest modern equivalent to the old Muslim caliphates....
...These groups should comprise Muslims, Jews, Christians, agnostics — anyone who wants peaceful coexistence — able to assist local authorities in getting to know the residents of our communities and what they...
...Saudi Arabia, by virtue of being the birthplace of Islam and custodian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, claims leadership of the worldwide ummah or Muslim commonwealth of believers....
...The Saudi king styles himself guardian of the two holy shrines, at Medina and Mecca, echoing the absolutism of Louis XIV and XV, who called themselves the “most Christian” kings....
...The culture of intolerance previously fostered in Saudi schools was directed not just against Christians, Jews and Hindus, who are forbidden from worshipping publicly inside the kingdom, but against the...
...Saudi Arabia, however, the nearest modern equivalent to a caliphate since its rulers are custodians of the holy places of Mecca and Medina, is a weak link in the chain....
...Local people believed their way of life would be brought to an end if ever a Christian set foot inside its walls and British officials in the region considered Burton’s plan quite likely to trigger mayhem...
...As custodian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, it is the closest modern equivalent to the old Islamic caliphate....
...FNP is a marginal party in terms of votes, but enjoys outsized influence thanks to the parliamentary support it lends to the government, led by president Danilo Medina....
...Now, it’s houses,” says Jorge Medina, a member of architecture and interiors company Muro Rojo....
...The South Korean company was forced to deny that it commissioned the ad after Christians in Lebanon rallied against the work....
...“Stoning, which has no basis in the Koran, probably came from Judaism” while the veiling and seclusion of women almost certainly derived from Persian and (Christian) Byzantine practice....
...France’s CAC 40 index ended up 2.7 per cent to 3,423.36, with its banks resurgent after European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer said he saw “no reason to believe that” French banks...
...Jewish life under Muslim rule naturally invites comparison with that under Christian rule....
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