Muhammad united the tribes of Arabia into a single Arab Muslim religious polity in the last years of his life. With Muhammad's death, disagreement broke out over who his successor would be. Umar ibn a ...
Muhammad and Battle of BadrFollowing the emigration, the people of Mecca seized property of Muslim emigrants to Mecca. Economically uprooted with no available profession, the Muslim migrants turned to ...
The name Muhammad means "praiseworthy" and occurs four times in the Quran. The Quran addresses Muhammad in the second person not by his name but by various appellations; prophet, messenger, servant of ...
The largest denomination in Islam is Sunni Islam, which makes up 75%–90% of all Muslims. Sunni Muslims also go by the name Ahl as-Sunnah which means "people of the tradition ". These hadiths, recount ...
To reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, Islamic economic jurisprudence encourages trade, discourages the hoarding of wealth and outlaws interest-bearing loans (usury; the term is riba in Arab ...
Islam is a verbal noun originating from the triliteral root s-l-m which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, safeness and peace. In a religious context it means "volu ...
Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order, but do not consistently accept all of ...
According to most scholars of religious demographics, there are between 350 million and 1.6 billion Buddhists, with 350–550 million the most widely accepted estimate. This makes Buddhism the fourth-l ...
Praj?ā (Sanskrit) or pa??ā (Pāli) means wisdom that is based on a realization of dependent origination, The Four Noble Truths and the three marks of existence. Praj?ā is the wisdom that is abl ...
Main article: Gautama BuddhaThis narrative draws on the Nidānakathā biography of the Theravāda sect in Sri Lanka, which is ascribed to Buddhagho?a in the 5th century CE. Earlier biographies such a ...
The word "Torah" in Hebrew is derived from the root ???, which in the hif'il conjugation means "to guide/teach" (cf. Lev 10:11). The meaning of the word is therefore "teaching", "doctrine", or "ins ...
There are distinct, and differing, views among Christians regarding the existence of Christ before his conception. A key passage in the New Testament is John 1:1-18 where John 1:17 specifically mentio ...
Concise doctrinal statements or confessions of religious beliefs are known as creeds (from Latin credo, meaning "I believe"). They began as baptismal formulae and were later expanded during the Christ ...
The Tanakh describes circumstances in which a person who is tahor or ritually pure may become tamei or ritually impure. Some of these circumstances are contact with human corpses or graves, seminal fl ...
Unlike other ancient Near Eastern gods, the Hebrew God is portrayed as unitary and solitary; consequently, the Hebrew God's principal relationships are not with other gods, but with the world, and mor ...
