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The word Mosalman ( Persian: مسلمان, alternatively Mussalman) is a common equivalent for Muslim used in Central and South Asia. In English it was sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become archaic in usage; however, cognates of this word remain the standard term for "Muslim" in various other European languages.
Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab), Judaeo-Arabic -speaking Jews, and Arab Christians [ 11 ] after the terms " al - ilāh " and "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims.
Waki' ibn al-Jarrah. al-Shafi'i. all Hanafis. Abu Hanifa[ a] ( Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized : Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699–767) [ 5] was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, [ 3] and eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. [ 3]
According to the Pew Research Center in 2017, the largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%). [ 8][ 19] About 20% of Muslims live in the Arab world. [ 20]
Omar Suleiman (imam) Suleiman in Durham, North Carolina, 2024. Omar Suleiman (born June 3, 1986) is an American Islamic scholar and civil rights activist. He is the founding president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an adjunct professor of Islamic studies and member of the Ethics Center Advisory Board at Southern Methodist ...
The word altar, in Greek θυσιαστήριον ( see: θυσία ), appears twenty-four times in the New Testament. In Catholic and Orthodox Christian theology, the Eucharist is a re-presentation, in the literal sense of the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross being made "present again". Hence, the table upon which the Eucharist is ...
Halal ( / həˈlɑːl /; [ 1] Arabic: حلال ḥalāl [ħæˈlæːl]) is an Arabic word that translates to 'permissible' in English. In the Quran, the term halal is contrasted with the term haram ( 'forbidden' ).It is used to refer to actions, behaviors, or items that are allowed under the teachings of Islam. Halal applies not only to food ...
Allāhu ʾAkbar ( أكبر) "Allah is [the] greatest". Greater than anything or anyone, imaginable or unimaginable. ʿĀlim ( عالِم) lit. One who knows. A scholar (in any field of knowledge) ; a jurist or scientist (who knows science) or a theologian (who knows religion ); similar to Japanese sensei, "teacher".