The highest person in the administrative pyramid of the provinces is the Wāli, the Muslim equivalent of a governor, which is chosen by the president.

But Xinjiang is in some respects a Muslim equivalent of Tibet, for it too is a border area with long but ambiguous links with China.

Another official of the Red Crescent, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross, said 3,000 people, mostly fishermen, were missing.

The court ruled that it was the Muslim equivalent of church bells.

His mother spent months showing him the Muslim marital equivalent of high school yearbook pictures, photograph upon photograph of women ready to marry.

But like most of the Hashemites, he is the Muslim equivalent of high Episcopal.

Also, the Red Crescent is the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.

Normal communications were severed, and most information on the disaster came from radios operated by the Red Crescent, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.

In terms of gift giving, Id al-Adha is the Muslim equivalent of Christmas, with children receiving toys or gifts of money.

Its Muslim equivalent is the Mohammed Ali Jinnah Memorial Mosque in Tunapuna, just east of the city, also open to visitors between prayers.