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GabrielSaidR
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GabrielSaidR
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Crowley Prof. of Islamic Studies & Theology, Notre Dame. "Exploring the Qur'an & the Bible." More at gabrielsaidreynolds.com Father of 5. Sinner.
- Compare how Qatar included recitation of the Qur'an in the World Cup opening ceremony.
This photo describes the state of our epoch: cult of ugliness, egocentrism, perversion, kitsch, disorder, and civilisational decline… all these are often state sponsored. - Yesterday found the opening verses of Quran 96 over the entrance to Yale University’s library.
- In Indonesia more and more women are wearing the hijab and fewer and fewer men are attending Friday prayers at a mosque. 🇮🇩
- Among young people in the UK, there's not just more Catholics than Anglicans attending church these days, there's TWICE AS MANY.
- Islam and Christianity are not only joined by a common belief in the miracle of Christ's birth, but also by a belief that he will return at the end of time.
- When Zaynab, daughter of Ali & granddaughter of the Prophet, was taken to Damascus, she saved the life of her nephew Ali b. al-Husayn, throwing her body on his, declaring: "By God, He will not be killed until you first kill me." Thus was the line of imams saved by a heroic woman.
- One of my Christian students speaks in her paper of a "holy envy" of the seriousness with which many Muslims take their faith.
- When a Muslim from Spain visited Baghdad in the late 10th century (long after al-Ma'mun and the purported "House of Wisdom") he was scandalized that the gents there were all talking about reason.
- Here's the "Pre-Islamic Basmalah" inscription (South Arabian "miniscule" script) published by M.A. Al-Hajj & A.A. Faqʿas who held it to read: "In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate" - thus anticipating the basmalah invocation at the opening of 113/114 Qur'anic Suras.
- Ahmad Al-Jallad's remarkable new study on Allah in pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. Key points: Allah is a divine name that appears (among other gods) in pre-Islamic North Arabian inscriptions (among early "Safaitic" inscriptions). Allah/Al-Ilah is the only divine name in the
- Thoughts and prayers to all Shia friends commemorating #Ashura. The story of Hussein is deeply meaningful to Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
- Recently deciphered (Greek) papyrus pushes back the material evidence for the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which includes a miracle from Jesus' childhood that also appears in the Qur'an.
The papyrus contains a portion of the story of Jesus bringing clay birds to life, which also appears twice in the Quran (3:49, 5:110) hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrich… - On #Ashura2020 remembering the sacrifice of Hussein and the heroism of his sister Zaynab, who cast herself upon Hussein's son Ali (Zayn al-Abidin) and saved the next imam.
