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  2. Islam and humanity - Wikipedia

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    Islam's most sacred book, the Qur'an, describes true followers of its prophet as "hard against disbelievers and merciful among themselves" (Qur'an 48:29). However, as seen in modern discuss, Muslims believe that regardless of a neighbor 's religious identity, Islam tells the Muslims to treat their neighboring people in the best possible manners ...

  3. Race (human categorization) - Wikipedia

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    Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]

  4. Adam in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Adam's role as the father of the human race is looked upon by Muslims with reverence. Muslims also refer to his wife, Ḥawwāʾ (Arabic: حَوَّاء, Eve), as the "mother of mankind". [1] Muslims see Adam as the first Muslim, as the Quran states that all the Prophets preached the same faith of Islam (Arabic: إسلام, lit. 'submission to ...

  5. Beliefs and theology of the Nation of Islam - Wikipedia

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    The NOI has been seen by some as attempting to be its own religion separate of Islam. [citation needed] The first book analyzing the Nation of Islam was The Black Muslims in America (1961) by C. Eric Lincoln. [citation needed] Lincoln describes how religious services use myths and over-generalizations to indoctrinate NOI adherents.

  6. Polygenism - Wikipedia

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    Cuvier claimed Adam and Eve were "Caucasian", forming the original race of mankind, while the other two races originated by survivors escaping in different directions after a major catastrophe hit the Earth 5,000 years ago, with those survivors then living in complete isolation from each other.

  7. Historical race concepts - Wikipedia

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    The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...

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  9. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    The views of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach on the categorization of the major races of mankind developed over the course of the 1770s to 1820s. He introduced a four-fold division in 1775, extended to five in 1779, later borne out in his work on craniology ( Decas craniorum , published during 1790–1828).