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…as an example a figure which plays a great role in Islamic mysticism, namely Khidr, ‘the Verdant One.’ He appears in the Eighteenth Sura of the Koran, entitled ‘The Cave.’ This entire Sura is taken up with a rebirth mystery. The cave is the place of rebirth…

…the most important one. At the same time, this would be also responsible for current recession. After Koran war, the government in fact had no sense of direction and also due to the unstable political situation, the country didn’t have specific economic…

…], the divine commandment for circumcision may have been a way to relieve the parents of any sense of responsibility or guilt. The real origin of Jewish circumcision is a matter of speculation. Muslim circumcision is not mentioned in the Koran, and Muslim scholars…

…. However, the Koran which is said to be the last message that God sent to humanity and is a primary source of Islamic law says nothing about women circumcision (Denniston, Hodges and Milos 1999:131,164). Because of increasing mobility of immigration from…

…. It promotes the return of the Koran and wants Islam to be the religion and the political regime of its society. They see the West as a bad influence, introducing new ideas and ways of life into their society that go against what they believe. Many fundamentalist…

…and his followers, and sometimes they were written Down. About 650 they were collected and written in the Qur`an (or Koran, the sacred scriptures of Islam), in the form that has endured. Muslims believe the Qur`an is divine revelation, written in the words…

…translated the Koran into French, which Rimbaud would later use to study Arabic. Rimbaud’s mother and father separated when he was six, his mother, Marie-Catherine, was left to raise his siblings and him by herself, as Rimbaud’s father was not heard from again…

…that was founded by a man named Muhammad. The followers of Muhammad believe that he received messages from God. Those messages all established into the rules that the Muslims live by, and they are all recorded in the Koran. Some of the laws forbade Muslims to eat…

…right? Does anyone recognize this text? I am not surprised. It's not a part of the bible that the Church likes to bring to its member's attention too often. The reason for this lies in the nature of the bible, a nature shared by the Torah, or the Koran…

…. Like traditional Judaism, Islam is very rule-focused. Muslims believe that the Ten Commandments are God's basic rules, that the Golden Rule taught by Jesus is a sort of clarification or update to these rules, and that the Koran contains all the details we…