Torah remains the unchallenged and preeminent center.
Harun al-Rashid: Abbasid caliph during whose reign Baghdad became the world's preeminent center of trade, learning, and culture.
The city sat at the center of the four suyu and served as the preeminent center of politics and religion.
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, England, founded in 1923 and closed in 1965, was known as a preeminent center for promoting avant-garde art.
Together, they are recognized as preeminent centers for neurosciences, orthopedics, cancer care, cardiovascular care and high-risk obstetrics.
The medical center has long been recognized as a preeminent center for cancer care and cardiac care, including open heart surgery and interventional cardiology.
The school remains the preeminent Catholic center for music study in the United States.
It became the preeminent Muslim center of learning in Egypt and by the Ayyubid period it had acquired a Sunni orientation.
Roosevelt also established the presidency as the preeminent center of authority within the federal government.
The late 19th century saw the rejuvenation of Oriental rug production, at this time Oushak re-surfaced as a preeminent center of weaving industry.