Muḥammad's birthday, arbitrarily fixed by tradition as the 12th day of the month of Rabīʿ I, i.e., the day of Muḥammad's death, was not celebrated by the masses of Muslim faithful until about the 13th century.
BOSTON — The Boston Pops holiday concert is as fixed a tradition as they come in this city, but this year there was a twist: a 7-foot-1 guest conductor who added a Michael Jackson song to the usual chestnuts and charmed the plaid-wool pants off the crowd at Symphony Hall.
"We have to have keep one hand firmly fixed on tradition in order to guess how we'll evolve," he said, when interviewed in Beijing, hinting that he and Ferran may consider launching their next taste-defying venture in the Chinese capital.
All the families in this study followed the ritual of "doing the month" with some practices being adapted and others remaining fixed in tradition.
Science wrenches phenomena out of their specific contexts, makes parts meaningful independently of wholes, and recombines segments in ways that transgress boundaries fixed by law, custom, tradition or institutional practice.
"In China", says one, "the two-year-old Christian teaches the one-year-old".Because most Protestant house churches are non-denominational (that is, not affiliated with Lutherans, Methodists and so on), they have no fixed liturgy or tradition.
Like Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, we struggle with the concept that sacred tradition is fixed yet flexible.
In accordance with tradition, we fixed the threshold to be 0 and the residual variance to be 1 as described for model TBA; alternate choices result in the same model.
Their general message is, however, firmly fixed in the modern traditions of the Sikhs.
Much of this tradition is firmly fixed in today's French mind.
