Encyclopedia - Ben Sira: Encyclopedia - Ben Sira
The Wisdom of Ben Sira, (or The Wisdom of Yeshua Ben Sira or merely Sirach), called Ecclesiasticus by Christians, is a book written circa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira: Encyclopedia - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira
The Alphabet of Ben-Sira (Alphabetum Siracidis, Othijoth ben Sira) is an anonymous medieval text, attributed to Ben Sira (Sirach), the au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Sira: Encyclopedia Ii - Ben Sira - The Author
The author is called in the Greek text (l. 27) "Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem." The copy owned by Saadia Gaon had the reading "Shi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sira: Encyclopedia - Sira
Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amidah: Encyclopedia - Amidah
The Amidah ("Standing"), also called the Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen"), is the central prayer in the Jewish liturgy that observant Jews...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia - Muhammad
Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunnah: Encyclopedia - Sunnah
Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia - Hadith
Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lilin: Encyclopedia - Lilin
According to The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, the lilin or lilim (singular lili) are the daughters of Lilith and Asmodai, engendered while Lilit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burton L. Mack: Encyclopedia - Burton L. Mack
Burton L. Mack is a writer and John Wesley Professor in early Christianity at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira: Encyclopedia Ii - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira - The Second Alphabet
The twenty-two Hebrew proverbs are quite different in character from the Aramaic ones, and of much younger date. Half of the proverbs are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Muhammad's Life According To Sira
Muhammad - Muhammad's genealogy. According to tradition, Muhammad traced his genealogy back as far as Adnan, whom the northern Arabs be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siras: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Siras (shiras)
siras: siras (shiras). Head.   (See also: siras , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amidah: Encyclopedia Ii - Amidah - Prayers In The Weekday Amidah
The prayers of the weekday Amidah are: Known as Avot ("Ancestors") this prayer offers praise of God as the God of the Biblical patriarch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira: Encyclopedia Ii - The Alphabet Of Ben-sira - Aramaic Proverbs
The Aramaic proverbs are the far older part of the book. Five of them can be traced to Talmudic-Midrashic literature. The Hebrew commenta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Sources About Muhammad's Life
The sources available about Muhammad's life are the Qur'an, the sira biographies, and the hadith collections. While the Qur'an is not a b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amidah: Encyclopedia Ii - Amidah - Shorter Form Used On The Sabbath
In the Shabbat Amidah, the middle supplications are replaced by one, so that the Sabbath Amidah is composed of seven benedictions. This o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amidah: Encyclopedia Ii - Amidah - Linguistic Sources
The following analysis may indicate the Biblical passages underlying the Amidah. Amidah - Biblical sources. Benediction No. i.: "Blesse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Muslim Veneration Of Muhammad
The name "Muhammad" written in Arabic calligraphy. Many Muslims believe that Islam prohibits art depicting humans or animals; much Islami...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Islamic Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Islamic Texts - Fiqh/sharia Jurispudence/religious Law
List of Islamic texts - Sunni. Usl al-Fiqh Aqidah al-Tahawiyya List of Islamic texts - Shia. Usool-e-kafi ... See also:List of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Muhammad's Historical Significance
Before his death in 632, Prophet Muhammad had established Islam as a social and political force and had unified most of Arabia. A few dec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Summary
Born Muhammad ibn Abdullah, he is said to have been a merchant who traveled widely. Muslims believe that in 610, at about the age of fort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad - Summary
Born Muhammad ibn Abdullah, he is said to have been a merchant who traveled widely. Muslims believe that in 610, at about the age of fort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - Types Of Hadith
Muslim scholars classify hadith relating to Muhammad as follows: What Muhammad said (qawl) What Muhammad did (fi'l) What Muhammad approv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Islamic Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Islamic Texts - Qur'an
List of Islamic texts - Text. Surahs Ayah List of Islamic texts - Commentary/Exegesis. Tafsir ibn Kathir (by Ibn Kathir) Tafsir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hijra Islam: Encyclopedia Ii - Hijra Islam - Chronology Of The Hijra
The Muslim dates are in the Islamic calendar extended back in time. The Western dates are in the Julian calendar. The Hijra is celebrated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radiodifusión Argentina Al Exterior: Encyclopedia Ii - Radiodifusión Argentina Al Exterior - History
RAE was founded "Servicio Internacional de la República Argentina" (SIRA, Argentine Republic's International Service), on 11 April 1949,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunnah: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunnah - Legality Of Sunnah
The Sunnah, therefore, is the second source of Islamic law after the Qur'an, and is incorporated in many books of hadith. The prophetic e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunnah: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunnah - Sunnah And Hadith
The Sunnah is the way or deeds of Muhammad in Sunni Islam, and the way or deeds of Muhammad and the twelve Imams in Shi'a Islam, while Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hijri Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Hijri Year - Etymology
While sometimes translated as "pilgrimage," Hijra means something like "severing relational ties". A even closer English equivalent could...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hijri Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Hijri Year - Definition
On the actual year the migration took place, there was already a functioning Lunar Calendar with named months. However, this calendar did...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hijri Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Hijri Year - History
Hijri year - Migration to Medina. Muhammads preachings did not at first have much success in the city of Mecca. His tribe, the Quraysh,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amidah: Encyclopedia Ii - Amidah - Changes To The Amidah
Amidah - Ancient changes. According to the Talmud, the 12th prayer in the modern sequence, the prayer against informers and heretics, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Javanese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Javanese Language - Syntax
Modern Javanese usually employs SVO word order. However, Old Javanese particularly had VSO or sometimes VOS word orders. Even in Modern J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gajah Mada: Encyclopedia Ii - Gajah Mada - Sumpah Palapa
It was said that during his appointment, Gajah Mada made his famous oath, Sumpah Palapa. It was stated on Pararaton (Book of Kings), an a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - How Hadith Were Collected And Evaluated
Traditions regarding the life of Muhammad and the early history of Islam were passed down orally for more than a hundred years after the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - Western Academic Views Of Hadith
Early Western exploration of Islam consisted primarily of translation of the Qur'an and a few histories, often supplemented with disparag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - Bridges Between Muslim And Western Scholars
Currently there is little communication between the world of Muslim hadith scholarship and Western academia. Muslim scholars reject the W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - How Are Hadith Collections Viewed?
The overwhelming majority of Muslims consider hadiths to be essential supplements to and clarifications of the Qur'an, Islam's holy book....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - Value Of Hadith Compared To The Value Of The Qur'an
Muslims who accept hadith believe that trusted hadith are in most cases the words of Muhammad and not the word of God, like the Qur'an. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadith: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadith - Hadith Accepted By Sunni Islam
The Sunni canon of hadith took its final form four to five centuries after the death of Muhammad. Later scholars may have debated the aut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Islamic Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Islamic Texts - Sunnah/hadith
List of Islamic texts - Hadith Traditions of The Prophet. The Siha-e-Sitta al-Bukhari (d. 870) included 7275 hadiths Muslim b. al-...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sira: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary Ii On Sira
Sira:  blood vessel   (See also: Sira , Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Dictionary, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghazw: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghazw - Maghāzī Literature
Maghāzī, which literally means "campaigns", is typically used within Islamic literature to signify the military campaigns conducted by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetum Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetum Language - Grammar
Grammar in Tetum is comparatively simple, there being no genders or verb conjugations. There is no definite article, so fetu can mean 'wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saqifah: Encyclopedia Ii - Saqifah - Ibn Ishaq's Account
One of the earliest accounts of Saqifah is to be found in Ibn Ishaq's sira, or biography of Muhammad. It is based on the words of Umar hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lilith: Encyclopedia Ii - Lilith - Lilith As Adam's First Wife
The passage in Genesis 1:27 — "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Textual Antiquity Of Esoteric Mysticism
Early forms of esoteric mysticism existed over 2,000 years ago. Ben Sira warns against it, saying: "You shall have no business with secre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma-sira-astra: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Brahma-sira-astra (-shira-asthra)
Brahma-sira-astra: Brahma-sira-astra (-shira-asthra). Particular missile of Brahma.   (See also: Brahma-sira-astra , Hindui...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Namaskara: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Namaskara
Namaskara - offering obeisance, or the act of offering adoration, praise, or reverence. Obeisance to Sri Bhagavan is of four types: (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asiras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asiras
Asiras (Sanskrit) (from a not + siras head)   Headless; in the plural, headless beings. With particular reference to elementals n...   » Read the article

Article - Ayurveda Sitemap I - S
This is a sitemap for Ayurveda - S . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article