All perfect praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and messenger. The ...

Rabbi Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, founder of the school of “Prophetic Kabbalah”, was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon Spain, in 1240. In his book Sefer Mafeah HaShemot, Rabbi Abulafia states that in the ...

The words El, Elah, Elohei and Elohim are pre Abrahamic west Semitic generic terms for a God or for many Gods. In these various forms they appear almost 3,000 times in the Hebrew Bible. But for Jews ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. The ...

Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family. But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and ...