The institute of Ahmed Baba, a saint and one of Timbuktu's most revered scholars and Islam, had been thought to be safe.
Fadl, however, quotes Ibn Taymiyya, one of the revered scholars of early Islam, who is also bin Laden's favorite authority: "A Muslim's blood and money are safeguarded even if his creed is different".
More than 4,200 historic manuscripts were lost from the Ahmed Baba Institute, named after one of Timbuktu's most revered scholars, while another 300,000 were evacuated, mostly to Bamako, and "are in urgent need of conservation," according to Eloundou Assomo.
As a director, she has obviously studied at the feet of her father, Dario, whose Italian horror flicks, such as "Suspiria," are revered by scholars of hemoglobin.
Eventually Yongzheng chose to place primary blame for the anti-Qing discontent on a formerly revered Confucian scholar named Lu Liuliang, already dead.
One of the city's major thoroughfares and countless smaller streets are named for his father, Ayatollah Morteza Motahari, a revered Islamic scholar who had been close to Khomeini.
This changed when a revered Sunni scholar, Abdul-Malik al-Saadi, taking a leadership role, instructed that these symbols of Sunni supremacy should be dropped and substituted with slogans acceptable to the Shia.
What's more, Professor Dworkin, who is similarly revered by many scholars as an extraordinary legal thinker, contends that it was inappropriate and may well have been unethical of Judge Posner, as a sitting judge, to pass judgment -- actually declare Mr. Clinton guilty -- in a matter that has the potential to became a federal criminal case.
China's profound respect for intelligence has created a country that reveres the scholar, emphasizes knowledge over might, defense over offense, skill over brute force, concentration over impulse.
And the only way to get to Binali was through his former teacher, the Jordanian Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, who may be the world's most revered living jihadi scholar.
Indeed, in writing about standards, revered American educational scholar and historian Diane Ravitch (1995) has noted that standards are as old as the Book of Genesis and as new as today's techniques.
