It was also in a spirit of determined humanity that, after the airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, we heard practically every American official, from the President to members of the local school board, quickly separating the murderous nihilism of the terrorists from the ancient tenets of Islam.
Many of the ancient philosophical tenets of the Siddha system continue to be relevant to modern practitioners.
But al-Malki and the 3,500 other Muslim athletes expected to compete in London may look to ancient Islamic tenets that allow exemptions — for travelers, the sick and others — out of concern that not eating or drinking, even water, throughout the day could put them at a competitive disadvantage.
The problem was that her work, which weaves together film, dance, body and process art with ancient symbols, feminist tenets and multicultural references, was mostly being developed -- and appreciated -- in Europe.
This concept prods New Age, ancient, and scientific tenets.
There is no central ancient text that succinctly sums up the religion's basic tenets, no single leader that Hindus can call the founder of their faith and no single modern-day organization to which all Hindus belong.
One of the common tenets of ancient philosophy which was abandoned in the period beginning with Descartes is that a person "could not have access to the truth" without undertaking a process of self-purification that would render him "susceptible to knowing the truth" (Foucault 1997, 278 279).
The right to a fair trial is ancient law, and a fundamental tenet of any democratic justice system.
That included the ancient pagan mythologies and the tenets of Islam.
The terms for tenets, or views, in ancient Greek are doxai or dogmata, in Latin opiniones; those for doctrines are, in Greek, areskonta, translated into Latin as placita.
