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In 10th century Basra, an Islamic Encyclopedia titled Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, expanded on the Platonic and Aristotelian concept of the great chain of being by proposing a causal relationship advancing up the chain as the mechanism of creation, beginning with the creation of matter and its investment with energy, thereby forming water vapour, which in turn became minerals and ...
Noah was married to a woman whose name is not mentioned in the Quran. Some Islamic historians such as Al-Tabari have suggested that the name of Noah's wife was Umzarah bint Barakil but this cannot be confirmed. Most Muslims simply call her by her midrashic name Naamah. [citation needed]
According to CBC News, "The statement did not provide any explanation about why the detainees might have abused their own Holy books." [14] In May 2005, a report in Newsweek, claiming that it was U.S. interrogators who desecrated the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay base, further sparking Muslim unrest. [9]
Taking its name from the mention of the "Army of the Elephant" in the first verse, this surah alludes to the Abyssinian campaign against Mecca possibly in the year 570 CE. Abrahah , the Christian viceroy of the Yemen (which at that time was ruled by the Abyssinians), erected a great cathedral at Sana'a , hoping thus to divert the annual Arabian ...
A new study proposes that the dinosaurs were killed off due to severe global cooling caused when the Earth passed through a ‘giant molecular cloud.’
Sunnis believe that the Qur'an is the uncreated word of God. Considering a part of the Qur'anic verse 7:54: . To him belongs the creation and the Command. The exegetes have suggested that this verse underlines the separation between God's creation and His command, therefore the Qur'an isn't created.
[28] [29] The word Allah (from the Arabic al-ilah meaning "the god") [30] may have been used as a title rather than a name. [31] [32] [33] The concept of Allah may have been vague in the Meccan religion. [34] According to Islamic sources, Meccans and their neighbors believed that the goddesses Al-lāt, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt were the daughters ...
The house of Khadija, Muhammad's first wife. Muslims believe he received some of the first revelations there. It was also where his children Zainab bint Muhammad, Ruqayyah bint Muhammad, Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, Fatimah, Qasim and Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad were born. After it was rediscovered during the Haram extensions in 1989, it was covered ...