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3 days ago · The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [10] [11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted. [10]
2 days ago · Muhammad (born c. 570, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died June 8, 632, Medina) was the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Qurʾān. He is traditionally said to have been born in 570 in Mecca and to have died in 632 in Medina, where he had been forced to emigrate to with his adherents in 622.
- Muhammad was the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Qurʾān, Islam’s sacred scripture. He spent his entire life in what is now the country o...
- According to Islamic tradition, his father died before Muhammad was born, and his mother died when he was a young child. He is usually said to have...
- Born in Mecca about 570 CE, Muhammad married a wealthy widow, Khadījah, in 595. In 610 he experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel. His public...
- The Qurʾān provides very few concrete details regarding Muhammad’s life. Most such information thus comes from the sīrah (“biography”) literature,...
- Many (though not all) Muslims reject visual representations (e.g., images and sculpted figures) of religious figures, or even visual representation...
8 hours ago · Biographical sources Main articles: Historiography of early Islam and Historicity of Muhammad Two folios of the Birmingham Quran manuscript, an early manuscript written in Hijazi script likely dated within Muhammad's lifetime between c. 568–645 Quran Main article: Muhammad in the Quran The Quran is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe it represents the words of God revealed ...
8 hours ago · An associate of his then founded the God Worshiping Society, which was meant to fervently spread Hong’s message—and actively worship Hong as an immortal on earth. By 1850, against all common sense and likely odds, Hong counted more than 10,000 followers as part of the God Worshiping Society.
5 days ago · расположенный во Владимирской области. Он был основан в 1024 году князем Юрием Долгоруким и входил в состав ...
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4 days ago · The Kaaba (Kaʿbah) surrounded by pilgrims during the hajj, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The cube-shaped structure (the word kaʿbah means “cube” in Arabic) is roughly 50 feet (15 meters) high, and it is about 35 by 40 feet (10 by 12 meters) at its base. Constructed of gray stone and marble, it is oriented so that its corners roughly correspond to ...
1 day ago · (3) On Abraham: "The country of the Sodomites was a district of the land of Canaan, which the Syrians afterwards called Palestine." [89] [90] c. 43 CE: Pomponius Mela , De situ orbis (Description of the World): "Syria holds a broad expanse of the littoral, as well as lands that extend rather broadly into the interior, and it is designated by ...
