ISTANBUL, Aug. 14 — Turkey's governing party has chosen Abdullah Gul, an economist and a practicing Muslim, as its candidate for president, officials said Monday, a move that places the party and its pious followers on a collision course with Turkey's secular elite.
His parents, both pious Hindus, were followers of Mahatma Gandhi and his doctrine of ahimsa, or non-violence.
The tech friendliness of Islamic State seems light-years ahead of the propaganda employed by al-Qaida just a decade ago when founder Osama bin Laden would rally followers with pious, videotaped sermons that had to be hand-delivered to Arab TV stations.
But a kind neighbor paid the ambitious girl's tuition to the private Dearborn Academy, and in 1861 she married the pious lawyer Horatio Spafford, a follower of the great evangelist Dwight Moody.
A "That Was New York" article about religious fanatics of the early nineteen hundreds; followers of the Retrenchment Society Mr. Piersonn, a pious merchant, who… THAT WAS NEW YORK about Maggie Moncrieff, daughter of Major Moncrieff, of the British Army.
A "That Was New York" article about religious fanatics of the early nineteen hundreds; followers of the Retrenchment Society Mr. Piersonn, a pious merchant, who… On Sunday in London New York as I knew it was not so large as it is now.
"About half the Islamic movement in Turkey, meaning the pious, conservative segment of society, are literally direct followers of Nursi, while the other half also respects him," Mr. Akyol said.
Always follow your followers.
He fell in love with Christoph Berens' sister, Katharina, but was refused permission to marry her by his friend, on the grounds of his religious conversion; Berens was an enthusiastic follower of the Enlightenment and was nauseated by the more pious manifestations of Hamann's new-found religiosity.
His public meetings attract large numbers of enthusiastic followers, who see him as the champion of a pious but modern-minded Islam.
Swaminarayan encouraged his followers to combine devotion and dharma to lead a pious life.
