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Koran
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Koran ( Qur'an ) Sacred book of Islam . According to Muslim belief, the Koran contains the actual word of God (Allah) as revealed...of his death. The 114 suras (chapters) of the Koran are the source of Islamic belief and a guide for...
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Islam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...it in Islam's most revered book, the Koran. The importance of education is repeatedly emphasized in the Koran with frequent injunctions, such as "God...the all-encompassing influence of the Koran. The Koran serves as a comprehensive blueprint...
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Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Ashari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...defended the basic Islamic belief that the Koran is the revealed book of God and that upon...education commenced with long exposure to the Koran and the collected Traditions of the Prophet...revolved around the problem of whether the Koran, which is held by Moslems to have been...
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Harem
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...received sanction in Islamic practice. The Koran allowed Muslim men to marry four legal...converted to Islam and bore children. The Koran encouraged Muslim men to marry their slaves...than one husband at the same time. The Koran considered the children of concubines legitimate...
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Qur'an
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Qur'an or Koran [Arab.,=reading, recitation], the sacred book...repr. 1969); I. Toshihiko, God and Man in the Koran (1964); R. Bell, Introduction to the Koran (2d ed. 1970); K. Cragg, The Event of the Koran...
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Sayyid Qutb
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...x101;n, had a particular love for the Koran (Qur'ān) which she inculcated...It was her custom to invite professional Koran reciters to the family home during the...by the age of ten he had memorized the Koran. His mother was the sympathetic ear for...
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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari was born in Amol in the province...with a prodigious memory, he knew the Koran by heart at the age of 7. After receiving...scholars. His enormous commentary on the Koran, which he completed in 883/884, gathers...
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Islam in the Ottoman Empire
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...The primary text of revelation is the Koran. This is regarded by Muslims as the literal...text of the revelation. It is through the Koran and hadith, therefore, that man can know...interrelated genres: the interpretation of the Koran (tafsir), the study of hadith, theology...
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Al-Zarqawi, Abu Mussab
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...scholar and gang leader. He spent long hours memorizing the Koran, but he also wore the outfit of an Afghan militiaman and made...who would do the laundry, who would lead the readings of the Koran," journalist Abdullah Abu Rumman, a journalist who served...
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Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Maliki school. This insistence upon a meticulous basis in the Koran and the Traditions for legal decisions naturally led Ibn Hazm...definitely a handmaiden to religion, to be used to reconcile the Koran and the Traditions of the Prophet on the rare occasions when...
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