C. 923 Khorāsān, Iran 991 Rayy, Iran Ibn Bābawayh, also spelled Ibn Babūyā, in full Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā al-Qummī, also called aṣ-Ṣadūq (born c. 923, Khorāsān province, Iran died 991, Rayy) Islamic theologian, author of one of the "Four Books" that are the basic authorities for the doctrine of Twelver (Ithnā ʿAshāri) Shīʿah.
The ability to reinterpret the bible, or the teachings of Christ, or the Old Testament, or to challenge the basic fundamental authority of the church has been nonexistent for most of the church's history.
Yet some Democratic leaders seem ready to take Congress to a new low, declaring its complicity in White House lawbreaking while fortifying a secretive model of executive power that denies the courts their basic authority to judge citizens -- and another branch of government.
Separation between the branches of government is also listed as a right of the people in §5 of Article I. Article IV establishes the basic structure and authority of the Virginia legislature.
The basic idea of the authority and autonomy of reason, which dominated all philosophizing in the 18th century, was, at bottom, the consequence of Newton's work.
The basic source of police authority was changed from law and politics to law only (especially criminal law).
In modern terms, civil war signifies that the government has lost one of the basic attributes of political authority: its monopoly of force and its control over the use of violence.
By turning news executives into celebrities, we devalue the institutions that support them, the basics of craft and the authority of editorial judgment.
We know the basic strategy of the Palestinian Authority and of President Abbas has collapsed.
The agreement reached after the conference in Bonn earlier this month clearly spells out the basic structure of the interim authority, but those bones need much fleshing out.
