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73 relations: Abu Al-Hasan Al-Harrani, Ahvaz, Ajam, Al-Battani, Al-Hajj, Al-Maʿarri, Ancient Mesopotamian religion, Arba'een, Daniel Chwolson, David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas, Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism, Demographics of Iraq, Demographics of the Arab League, Dhabihah, Dhimmi, Ebionites, Elcesaites, Fate of the unlearned, God-fearer, Haran, Haran (biblical place), Harran, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetism and other religions, Hilal al-Sabi', History of Islam, Ibn al-Nadim, Ibn Wahshiyya, Index of Islam-related articles, Index of religion-related articles, Infidel, Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, Ishikism, Islam and other religions, Islamic holy books, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jan Assmann, Jizya, List of converts to Islam, List of critics of Islam, List of founders of religious traditions, List of Gnostic sects, List of Mesopotamian deities, List of religions and spiritual traditions, Mandaeans, Mandaeism, Marc Edmund Jones, Marriage in Islam, Monopsychism, Necromancy, ..., Nicolas Siouffi, Numayrid dynasty, People of the Book, Picatrix, Pre-Adamite, Religion in the Middle East, Religions of the ancient Near East, Religious exclusivism, Sabbateans, Sabeism, Sabi, Salim Al-Hassani, Sinan ibn Thabit, Stobrum, Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), Thābit ibn Qurra, Translation Movement, Tribes of Arabia, Universalism, Women in Arab societies, Yazdânism, Zabur, Zoroaster. Expand index (23 more) »
Abu Al-Hasan Al-Harrani
Abu al-Hasan al-Harrani, Thabit ibn Ibrahim ibn Zahrun al-Ḥarrani (b.Raqqa 896; d.Baghdad 980), was a 10th century physician and translator who lived and worked in Baghdad at the court of its Buyid rulers.
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Ahvaz
Ahvaz (or Ahwaz; translit) is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province.
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Ajam
Ajam (عجم) is an Arabic word meaning one who is not understandable in speech.
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Al-Battani
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī (Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني) (Latinized as Albategnius, Albategni or Albatenius) (c. 858 – 929) was an Arab astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician.
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Al-Hajj
Sūrat al-Ḥajj (سورة الحج, "The Pilgrimage, The Hajj") is the 22nd sura of the Qur'an with 78 ayat.
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Al-Maʿarri
Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri (Arabic, full name; December 973 – May 1057) was a blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer.
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Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Mesopotamian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 3500 BC and 400 AD, after which they largely gave way to Syriac Christianity.
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Arba'een
Arba'een (lit), Chehlom (چهلم, چہلم, "the fortieth ") or Qırxı, İmamın Qırxı (امامین قیرخی, "the fortieth of Imam") is a Shia Muslim religious observance that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura.
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Daniel Chwolson
Daniel Abramovich Chwolson or Chwolsohn or Khvolson (Даниил Авраамович (Абрамович) Хвольсон; דניאל אברמוביץ' חבולסון) –)) was a Russian-Jewish orientalist.
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David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas
David (abu Sulaiman) ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas al-Rakki (داود إبن مروان المقمص translit.: Dawud ibn Marwan al-Muqamis; died c. 937) was a philosopher and controversialist, the author of the earliest known Jewish philosophical work of the Middle Ages.
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Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism
Religion in the Greco-Roman world at the time of the Constantinian shift mostly comprised three main currents.
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Demographics of Iraq
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Iraq, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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Demographics of the Arab League
The Arab League (League of Arab States) is a social, cultural and economic grouping of 22 Arab states in the Arab world.
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Dhabihah
In Islamic law (or zabiha, ذَبِيْحَة, 'slaughter'(noun)) is the prescribed method of ritual slaughter of all lawful halal animals.
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Dhimmi
A (ذمي,, collectively أهل الذمة / "the people of the dhimma") is a historical term referring to non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection.
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Ebionites
Ebionites (Ἐβιωναῖοι Ebionaioi, derived from Hebrew אביונים ebyonim, ebionim, meaning "the poor" or "poor ones") is a patristic term referring to a Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era.
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Elcesaites
The Elcesaites, Elkasaites, Elkesaites or Elchasaites were an ancient Jewish Christian sect in Sassanid southern Mesopotamia.
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Fate of the unlearned
The fate of the unlearned, also known as the destiny of the unevangelized, is an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it.
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God-fearer
God-fearers (φοβούμενος τον Θεόν, Phoboumenos ton Theon) or God-worshipers (θεοσέβής, Theosebes) were a numerous class of gentile sympathizers to Hellenistic Judaism, which observed certain Jewish religious rites and traditions without becoming full converts to Judaism.
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Haran
Haran or Aran (Modern: Hārān) is a man in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
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Haran (biblical place)
Haran, Charan, or Charran (חָרָן, transliterated as Ḫaran) is a place mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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Harran
Harran (حران,Harran, حران) was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia whose site is near the modern village of Altınbaşak, Turkey, 44 kilometers southeast of Şanlıurfa.
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Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "thrice-greatest Hermes"; Mercurius ter Maximus; חרם תלת מחזות) is the purported author of the ''Hermetic Corpus'', a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism.
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Hermetism and other religions
This is a comparative religion article which outlines the similarities and interactions between Hermeticism (or Hermetism) and other religions or philosophies.
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Hilal al-Sabi'
Abū'l-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. Muḥassin b. Ibrahīm al-Ṣābi' (born: 358 A.H/969 A.D, died:447-448 A.H/1056 A.D) (aged 90 lunar) ابو حسين هلال بن محسن بن ابراهيم الصابئ) was a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic. Born into a family of Sabian bureaucrats, al-Ṣābi converted to Islam in 402-403 A.H/1012 AD. First working under the Buyid amir Ṣamṣām al-Dawla, he later became the Director of the Chancery under Baha' al-Daula's vizier Fakhr al-Mulk.
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History of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social,economic and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.
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Ibn al-Nadim
Muḥammad ibn Ishāq al-Nadīm (ابوالفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), his surname was Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Abī Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Ishāq al-Warrāq and he is more commonly, albeit erroneously, known as Ibn al-Nadim (d. 17 September 995 or 998 CE) was a Muslim scholar and bibliographer Al-Nadīm was the tenth century Baghdadī bibliophile compiler of the Arabic encyclopedic catalogue known as 'Kitāb al-Fihrist'.
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Ibn Wahshiyya
Ibn Wahshiyyah the Nabataean (ابن وحشية النبطي), also known as ʾAbū Bakr ʾAḥmad bin ʿAlī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي) (fl. 9th/10th centuries) was an Arab alchemist, agriculturalist, farm toxicologist, Egyptologist, and historian born at Qusayn near Kufa in Iraq.
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Index of Islam-related articles
This is an alphabetical list of topics related to Islam, the history of Islam, Islamic culture, and the present-day Muslim world, intended to provide inspiration for the creation of new articles and categories.
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Index of religion-related articles
Many Wikipedia articles on religious topics are not yet listed on this page.
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Infidel
Infidel (literally "unfaithful") is a term used in certain religions for those accused of unbelief in the central tenets of their own religion, for members of another religion, or for the irreligious.
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Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
The intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine was the civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish Yishuv during the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, beginning from the violent spillover of the Franco-Syrian War in 1920 and until the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Ishikism
Ishikism, (Işıkçılık) or Ishik Alevism (Işık Aleviliği), also known as Chinarism (Çınarcılık), is a syncretic religious movement among Alevis who have developed an alternative understanding of Alevism and its history.
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Islam and other religions
Over the centuries of Islamic history, Muslim rulers, Islamic scholars, and ordinary Muslims have held many different attitudes towards other religions.
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Islamic holy books
Islamic holy books are the texts which Muslims believe were authored by Allah via various prophets throughout humanity's history.
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Jabir ibn Hayyan
Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (جابر بن حیانl fa, often given the nisbas al-Bariqi, al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi or al-Sufi; fl. c. 721c. 815), also known by the Latinization Geber, was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.
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Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann (born Johann Christoph Assmann; born 7 July 1938) is a German Egyptologist.
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Jizya
Jizya or jizyah (جزية; جزيه) is a per capita yearly tax historically levied on non-Muslim subjects, called the dhimma, permanently residing in Muslim lands governed by Islamic law.
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List of converts to Islam
The following is an incomplete list of notable people who converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion.
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List of critics of Islam
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List of founders of religious traditions
This article lists historical figures credited with founding religions or religious philosophies or people who first codified older known religious traditions.
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List of Gnostic sects
The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism.
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List of Mesopotamian deities
Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic.
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List of religions and spiritual traditions
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs and world views that establishes symbols relating humanity to spirituality and, often, to moral values.
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Mandaeans
Mandaeans (aṣ-Ṣābi'a al-Mandā'iyūn) are an ethnoreligious group indigenous to the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia and are followers of Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion.
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Mandaeism
Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (مندائية) is a gnostic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview.
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Marc Edmund Jones
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Marriage in Islam
In Islam, marriage is a legal contract between a man and a woman.
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Monopsychism
Monopsychism is the belief that all humans share the same eternal consciousness, soul, mind and intellect.
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Necromancy
Necromancy is a practice of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the deceased as a weapon, as the term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft.
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Nicolas Siouffi
Nicolas Siouffi (1829 (Damascus) – 1901 (unknown)) was a Syrian Christian, and later French citizen and Vice-Consul at Mosul, remembered for his study of surviving Sabians—a monotheistic religion mentioned in the Quran—Études sur la religion des Soubbas ou Sabéens, leurs dogmes, leurs moeurs (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880).
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Numayrid dynasty
The Numayrids were an Arab dynasty based in Diyar Mudar (western Upper Mesopotamia).
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People of the Book
People of the Book/Scripture (أهل الكتاب ′Ahl al-Kitāb) is an Islamic term referring to Jews, Christians, and Sabians and sometimes applied to members of other religions such as Zoroastrians.
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Picatrix
Picatrix is the name used today, for a 400-page book of magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title غاية الحكيم Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though an argument for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made.
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Pre-Adamite
The Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Pre-adamism is the theological belief that humans (or intelligent yet non-human creatures) existed before the biblical character Adam.
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Religion in the Middle East
Three major religious groups (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) originated in the Middle East.
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Religions of the ancient Near East
The religions of the ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some early examples of primitive monolatry (Yahwism/Judaism, Mardukites), Ashurism and Monism (Atenism).
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Religious exclusivism
Religious exclusivism, or exclusivity, is the doctrine or belief that only one particular religion or belief system is true.
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Sabbateans
Sabbateans (Sabbatians) is a complex general term that refers to a variety of followers of disciples and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), a Jewish rabbi who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1665 by Nathan of Gaza.
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Sabeism
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Sabi
Sabi may refer to.
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Salim Al-Hassani
Salim T. S. Al-Hassani is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.
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Sinan ibn Thabit
Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra سنان بن ثابت بن قرة) (880; † 943) was an Arab Sabian physician, astronomer and mathematician who later converted to Islam. He was the son of Thabit ibn Qurra and the father of Ibrahim ibn Sinan. He is also a scientist who started mobile hospital services for rural areas.
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Stobrum
Stobrum is a tree native to Carmania, with scented wood, which was an object of exchange in ancient days in the Roman Empire.
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Tammuz (Babylonian calendar)
Tammuz was a month in the Babylonian calendar, named for one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz (Sumerian: Dumuzid, "son of life").
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Thābit ibn Qurra
(ثابت بن قره, Thebit/Thebith/Tebit; 826 – February 18, 901) was a Syrian Arab Sabian mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator who lived in Baghdad in the second half of the ninth century during the time of Abbasid Caliphate.
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Translation Movement
The Translation Movement was a movement started in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad which translated many Greek classics into Arabic.
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Tribes of Arabia
The tribes of Arabia are the clans that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Universalism
Universalism is a theological and philosophical concept that some ideas have universal application or applicability.
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Women in Arab societies
The Feminist (history as gender struggle) view of women in the Arab world, and in other areas of the world, is that such women have throughout history experienced discrimination and have been subject to restrictions of their freedoms and rights.
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Yazdânism
Yazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a pre-Islamic, native religion of the Kurds.
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Zabur
Zabur (زبور) is, according to Islam, the holy book of Dawud (David), one of the holy books revealed by God before the Quran, alongside others such as the Tawrat (Torah) of Musa (Moses) and the Injil (Gospel) of Īsā (Jesus).
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster (from Greek Ζωροάστρης Zōroastrēs), also known as Zarathustra (𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 Zaraθuštra), Zarathushtra Spitama or Ashu Zarathushtra, was an ancient Iranian-speaking prophet whose teachings and innovations on the religious traditions of ancient Iranian-speaking peoples developed into the religion of Zoroastrianism.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabians
