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  • which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ... The Qur'an provides detailed descriptions of Jahannam that have ...
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  • religious teachings were an eclectic blend of various traditions including ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...
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  • early Christian writings, and is known in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...
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  • , was a ninth-century B.C.E. prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose name ... Elijah is considered to be one of the great prophets of the Abrahamic ...
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  • al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating ... The Mu'tazili school of thought had a wide influence on early ...
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  • Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement ... Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ...
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  • religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham ... The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ...
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  • The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on ... The Battle of Karbala is particularly central to Shi'a Muslim ...
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  • Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ... sacrificial feast with Aaron and the elders of Israel. Moses then accepted ...
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  • In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...
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  • peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers ... Sinai is a land of contrasts. The desert interior comes to an abrupt ...
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  • for God (or the gods), with the purpose of delivering a divinely inspired ... Prophets play an important role in many religions. Historically, the ...
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  • " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...
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  • "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... the Jewish world by outwardly converting to Islam while imprisoned by the Ottoman ...
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  • Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as false Prophets. Mandaeans consider John ... and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.Nathaniel ...
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  • Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...
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  • الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – ... many have exercised power. The royal houses of Jordan and Morocco are "sayyids ...
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  • and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ... skepticism toward the totalizing nature of "metanarratives" ...
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  • the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as well as often ... refers to the stereotypical depictions of cherubim in western art. As ...
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  • writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...
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