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Kaf Hachayim (Hebrew: כף החיים; translation: "the palm of life") is the title of two widely cited codes of Jewish law. It may refer to: It may refer to: a work by Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer
Sofer was born in Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq. [1] He studied the Torah under Abdallah Somekh and the Yosef Hayyim.In 1904, he journeyed to the Ottoman Palestine together with colleagues Sadqa Hussein and the Asei HaYa'ar to meet with the Hakham Bashi, Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, and to pray at the graves of the righteous. [2]
Dan Tafa and Ahmad developed a strong bond of friendship, with Dan Tafa serving as an advisor and confidant to Ahmad. This close relationship led Ahmad to promise Dan Tafa the prestigious position of Wazirin Sokoto if he ever became Amir al-mu'minin, the Caliph of Sokoto. The Waziri was a crucial role in the Sokoto government, considered the ...
Pikuach nefesh (Hebrew: פיקוח נפש), which means "saving a soul" or "saving a life," is the principle in Halakha (Jewish law) that the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other religious rule of Judaism.
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
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al-Ākhirah (Arabic: الآخرة, derived from Akhir which means last, ultimate, end or close) [1] [2] is an Arabic term for "the Hereafter". [3] [4]In Islamic eschatology, on Judgment Day, the natural or temporal world will come to an end, the dead will be resurrected from their graves, and God will pronounce judgment on their deeds, [5] [6] consigning them for eternity to either the bliss ...
Mount Qaf, or Qaf-Kuh, also spelled Cafcuh and Kafkuh (Persian: قافکوه), or Jabal Qaf, also spelled Djebel Qaf (Arabic: جبل قاف); Koh-i-Qaf, also spelled Koh-Qaf and Kuh-i-Qaf or Kuh-e Qaf (Persian: کوہ قاف); or Kaf Dağı in Turkish is a legendary mountain in the popular mythology of the Middle East.