The Knowledge: ILM علم
Ilm (Arabic: علم “knowledge”) is the Arabic term for knowledge. However central the idea of ‘ilm to Islamic intellectual culture, it was an essentialist concept, assumed to be a fixed…
March 21, 2018
Ilm (Arabic: علم “knowledge”) is the Arabic term for knowledge. However central the idea of ‘ilm to Islamic intellectual culture, it was an essentialist concept, assumed to be a fixed…
Passover, Easter or Pesach (from Hebrew פֶּסַח Pesah), is an important, biblically derived holiday. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by GOD from slavery in…
Abrahamic Religions: Similarity & Comparision Intro Abrahamic Religions currently there are about 3.4 billion believers in the world, and this according to 2020 statistics, corresponds to about 56% of the…
Introduction The number 7 is definitely important in the Holy Scriptures, it is the symbol of GOD and of His perfection and completeness. Since the story of the creation with…
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Avraham ; Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm), originally Abram, is the Patriarch of the Abramitic Religion (and first of the three Patriarchs of Judaism). His story features in the…
In Abrahamic religions, the Messiah (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, translit. Māšîaḥ), Christ (Greek: Χριστός, translit. Khristós), or Al-Masih (Arabic: المسيح, ISO 233: mahdī) is the one chosen to lead the World and thereby…
The Vulgate (/ˈvʌlɡeɪt, -ɡɪt/) is a late fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible. The…
Introduction The Golden Rule or Law of reciprocity is the principle of treating others as one would wish to be treated oneself. It is a maxim of altruism seen in…
Muḥammad (Arabic: محمد; c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE) is the central figure of Islam and widely regarded as its founder by non-Muslims. He is known as the “Holy Prophet” to Muslims sent by…
Religious texts, also known as Scripture, Scriptures, Holy Writ, or Holy Books, are the Texts which various Religious traditions consider to be sacred, or central to their religious tradition. Many…
Judaism (from Latin: Iudaismus, derived from Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός, originally from Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, “Judah”; in Hebrew: יהדות, Yahadut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos) encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture…
Islam (Arabic: الإسلام, al-ʾIslām) is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based upon the Qur’an, a religious text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim Word of GOD (in Arabic…
The Quran (Arabic: القرآن al-qur’ān, literally meaning “the Recitation”; also romanized Qurʾan or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from GOD…
Apocrypha are works, usually written works, that are of unknown authorship, or of doubtful authenticity, or spurious, or not considered to be within a particular canon. The word is properly…
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà Biblía, “the Books”) is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single canonical “Bible”: many Bibles have…
