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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of ... Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sometimes referred to as the ...
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  • Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...
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  • late seventeenth century. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement ... harboring messianic pretensions at the age of 22, he gathered followers and ...
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  • Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...
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  • Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-islām) "obedience (or submission ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the ... Arising as it does in nearly all cultures, the ethic of reciprocity ...
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  • and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...
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  • ; "Rest") was the tenth and last of the antediluvian patriarchs ... Despite portraying the death of nearly the whole of mankind as well ...
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  • and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of the inhabitants of ancient ... Judean Jews; however, Jesus used the parable of the "Good Samaritan" ...
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  • is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ... It is the most overt demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim ...
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  • Kazi Nazrul Islam ( কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ...
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  • a scientist; Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development ... and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, famously translated ...
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  • philosophical ideas to philosophers of African origin, a distinction ... Surveys of the beliefs of hundreds of African peoples have shown that ...
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  • Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...
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  • Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...
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