He formally instituted the hajj to Mecca and fasting during the month of Ramadan as distinctive cultic acts, in recognition of the fact that islām, a generic act of surrender to God, had become Islam, a proper-name identity distinguished not only from paganism but from other forms of monotheism as well.
Marc Gafni: The concept of the separate self, a strong individual identity distinguished from family, clan, tribe, kingdom, emerged in the Renaissance.
I'm reminded of it whenever – which is often – a standup introduces themselves with jokes about whatever cultural heritage or identity distinguishes them.
Germans are unhappy about losing a beloved icon of stability and strength that has shielded them from inflation, gave them a guiltless symbol of national identity and distinguished them from their neighbors.
In Greater Romania, the Banat Bulgarians' identity was distinguished in censuses and statistics.
On the basis of TIR, ORF and whole TE length and sequence identity, we distinguished three VdLs.17 Tc1/mariner families referred hereafter as DAHLIAE 1, 2 and 3.
Strain identity was distinguished using either a unique marker (e.g. Spc42-mCherry) or brief prestaining with fluorescent concanavalin A (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) (Lew and Reed, 1993).
In this general account of identity Locke distinguishes between the identity of atoms, masses of atoms and living things.
Object identity: RDF distinguishes between resources, which have object identity (an OID), and literals, i.e. opaque strings.
In 1699, Guru Gobind Singh Ji decided to give Sikhs a visual identity to distinguish them from others.
In the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that citizens of the young democracy craved badges of personal identity to distinguish themselves as individuals and to bring order to a society that lacked formal class distinctions.
