The government battles rebels from Abkhazia, a Muslim province in the country's northwest.

One of each was sent to every Muslim province with the order that all other Quranic materials, whether fragmentary or complete copies, be destroyed.

During the period the Tartars had entered the Muslim provinces and the disorder and the disturbances prevailed everywhere.

An insurgency in the three largely Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has taken more than 1,900 lives over the past two years.

This defiance was encouraged and perhaps even instigated by religious leaders in Ifat and other Muslim provinces.

Aceh, a staunchly Muslim province, has been a center of separatist activity since Dutch colonial times.

"You have an entire Muslim eastern province that has been denuded of Muslims," a Clinton Administration official said.

It was only in the late 1920s and early 1930s that he started proposing for autonomy for Muslim provinces within India.

What the hell are you doing here in a pure Muslim province like Aceh?

A separatist insurgency has simmered for decades in the strongly Muslim province.