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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 ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- religious teachings were an eclectic blend of various traditions including ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- early Christian writings, and is known in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- , 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 ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating ... The Mu'tazili school of thought had a wide influence on early ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement ... Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham ... The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on ... The Battle of Karbala is particularly central to Shi'a Muslim ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ... sacrificial feast with Aaron and the elders of Israel. Moses then accepted ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- for God (or the gods), with the purpose of delivering a divinely inspired ... Prophets play an important role in many religions. Historically, the ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... the Jewish world by outwardly converting to Islam while imprisoned by the Ottoman ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as false Prophets. Mandaeans consider John ... and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.Nathaniel ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – ... many have exercised power. The royal houses of Jordan and Morocco are "sayyids ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ... skepticism toward the totalizing nature of "metanarratives" ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- true to the Genesis account, this is one of the most famous depictions ... covenants underpin the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- in the Hebrew Bible during the period of Jewish exile in Babylon. reasons. He is regarded as the author of much of the Biblical "Book ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham and the ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... Prophets of Islam are generally considered by hadith to have kept ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed ... The spiritual rewards (thawab) of fasting are believed to be multiplied ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- "Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder ... for his leadership during the early stages of the Exodus, and especially ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ... Each Surah is named for a word or name mentioned in an ayah (section ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- charm, a "magnetic" quality of personality and/or appearance ... results or not depends on other aspects of the leader, namely whether ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- David, was the second and most famous king of ancient Israel, as well as ... (داود), and considered one of the prophets of Islam, to whom the Zabur ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom ... the physical sense, the siege and later sack of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., including ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of ... Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sometimes referred to as the ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- late seventeenth century. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement ... harboring messianic pretensions at the age of 22, he gathered followers and ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-islām) "obedience (or submission ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the Khulafā-i-Rāshidūn ... Thus, although often cited as the cause of contention between Sunni ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
