Yet Islam as a monotheistic faith-tradition belongs to the family of faith-traditions which includes Judaism and Christianity.
The researcher, who has studied more than 2, 000 people over the age of 100 for the past 15 years, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that "strong local family traditions" also contributed to the longevity of the Sardinians.
We pray for our troops serving far away from the warmth of family and homespun traditions.
Indira, a single woman in her first job, says her family has kept the traditions of their centuries-old Badaga cuisine.
How ironic, then, that the family-owned newspaper itself is run in the stuffiest traditions of the old system it wishes to end.
The fishing industry has family based traditions in most cultures and a business must respect, support, and sustain such traditions as long as they are ethical environmental practices.
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The love of family, hard work, strong values, traditions and spirituality were the roots that were planted in me.
There is no doubt that this is a challenge for many family businesses because of the traditions, policies and practices that have often been in place for decades.
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The Grahames have been there ever since, accumulating family traditions.
Around this time, my family is busy preparing for Christmas traditions: the gift giving, the midnight candlelight service, the feast on Christmas Day.
The movie is superbly matter-of-fact in depicting subjects as different as the emotional cluelessness of proudly footloose teen-age boys, the level of ominous and explosive noise that the characters have learned to live with, the inability of well-meaning social workers to alter family traditions.
The hugely popular horse race is one of the oldest traditions in Kentucky, but one other notable practice predates it: the making of whisky by the Samuels family, which began in 1784.
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There are, of course, many other Christmas traditions - the food, the tree, decorations, family gatherings - and some argue that full pews at Christmas-time should be seen as part of that - a purely cultural thing.
This could mean enjoying a scuba diving adventure, buying colourful spices or fresh fish from nearby markets with a chef, exploring a mountain village with a resident family or joining a cultural ambassador to learn the secrets of local traditions and history.
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The stories are presented through the portrayal of an ordinary family, its daily activities and hopes, customs and traditions.
This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.
In the 1970s he invited some of the first backpackers passing through Bali to stay in his family's simple one-room ancestral home, and to learn of the island's unique traditions.
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