The Acts of the Apostle The Acts of the Apostles (often referred to simply as Acts, or the Book of Acts) is the fifth book of the Christian New Testament,…
Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes (Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Qohelet) is part of the “Writings” (Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible and one of the “Wisdom” books of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used…
“On Writing Well” is the book that came from a course taught by William Zinsser at Yale University, and has been praised for its wise advice, clarity, and warmth of…
Table of Contents Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright of the post-Augustan age…
“No god but God” is a text written by Iranian-American Muslim scholar Reza Aslan. The book describes the history of Islam and argues for a liberal interpretation of the religion….
Metaphysical Meditations, is a treatise by Descartes in which he wants to demonstrate the existence of GOD and the immortality of the Soul (and in fact in Latin the full…
A book from which anyone interested in history and political philosophy should refer in order to receive an overview of the political system of that time and consider its similarities…
Ein Sof comes from the Hebrew term אין סוף ( infiniteness, or limitlessness) can be conceived as the opposite from what is conceived as “to be”, the transcendental par excellence,…
Etymology, root, Qur’anic occurrences, and semantic field of the verb “s-l-m” Muslim (مُسْلِم) derives from the active participle of the fourth form verb أَسْلَمَ (ʾaslama: “to submit oneself, to surrender,…
l-raḥmāni (ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ) meaning “to have mercy”, “the Merciful”. Derives from the triliteral root hamza lām hā (أ ل ه) that occurs 2851 times in the Quran, in three derived forms:…
Muslim (In Arabic مُسْلِمًا from the Arab-Persian Muslimān) is the name of a believer that professes Islam. Both terms comes from the Arabic word “one who submits “. Islam is…
Eschatology in Theology is something that refers to the ultimate destiny of man, humanity and the universe (eschatological doctrines). This doctrine therefore concerns the ultimate destiny of humankind and of…
ʾIn shāʾ ALLAH (Arabic: إن شاء الله, is the Arabic language expression for “GOD willing” or “if GOD wills”. The phrase comes from a Quranic passages which states that believers…
ALLAH / GOD (ٱللَّه) is the Name of GOD in Arabic. Derives from the triliteral root hamza lām hā (أ ل ه) that occurs 2851 times in the Quran, in…
Prophet The Greek word was used in Septuagint (LXX) for Hebrew nabj or nav’i (נָבִיא nāvî) the one who speaks by divine inspiration. Early Latin writers translated Greek prophetes with…
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