• The Epistle to Yemen or Yemen Letter (Arabic: الرسالة اليمنية, translated as Hebrew: אגרת תימן, romanized: Iggeret Teiman) was an important communication...
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  • ISBN 9042018585. "Epistle to Yemen Complete", "Maimonides, Trans. Boaz Cohen", url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Yemen/Complete, Astren, Fred...
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  • themselves to be prophets. Maimonides referred to Muhammad as a false prophet and an insane man. In his Epistle to Yemen he wrote, "After [Jesus] arose the Madman...
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    Yemenite Jews (redirect from Jews in Yemen)
    Baladi-rite prayer Epistle to Yemen Al-Ousta Codex "Yemenite Jews in Stamford Hill: A failed experiment". "Watch: After 15 Years: Yemeni Jewish Family Reunites...
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  • cited the Three Oaths in his famous Epistle to Yemen, written around 1173. In this letter, Maimonides attempted to strengthen the morale of the Yemenite...
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    descent back to Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi from the Davidic line. His ancestry, going back four generations, is given in his Epistle to Yemen as Moses son...
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    expressed most famously in Maimonides' "Epistle to Yemen," would seem to have its origins in the attempt to deal with the trauma of a failed Messianic...
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    that was threatening the Jews of Yemen, an exchange which prompted Maimonides to compose his famous Epistle to Yemen. The letters and intellectual dialogue...
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  • a change of fortune Maimonides wrote in his Epistle to Yemen (ch. xiii): "I note that you are inclined to believe in astrology and in the influence of...
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    the 12th century. For example, Maimonides' 1173/4 Epistle to Yemen warns the Jewish community of Yemen against joining similarly heterodox and syncretistic...
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  • to theory Epistemological realism Epistemological relativism Epistemological rupture Epistemological solipsism Epistemology Epistle to Yemen Epistles...
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  • Burns (philosopher) Emergent materialism Epistemic theory of miracles Epistle to Yemen Eranos Ernesto Buonaiuti Ernst Ehrlich Ernst Troeltsch Eschatology...
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  • Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War – Epistemologia – Epistle to YemenEpistlesEpistles of Wisdom – Erewhon Revisited – Erkenntnis – Eryxias – Essay...
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  • مَفْتُوحَة, "open tāʼ"). In words such as رِسَالَة ('letter, message, epistle'), the fatha (/a/) + tāʼ marbūṭa combination (ـَة) is transliterated as...
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  • possessor of divine knowledge and therefore the "Prime Teacher". According to the "Epistle of the Right Path", a Persian Ismāʿīlī prose text from the post-Mongol...
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    al-ṣafā') also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of Sincerity, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Loyal...
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    ibn Mūsā aṣ-Ṣulayḥī), (c. 1048 – c. 1138) was a long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly as the co-ruler of her first two husbands and then as sole ruler...
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    needed] Arwa al-Sulayhi was the Hujjah in Yemen from the time of Imam al Mustansir. She appointed Da'i in Yemen to run religious affairs. Ismaili missionaries...
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    Bohra community resides in India, with sizable congregations in Pakistan, Yemen, East Africa, and the Middle East. They also have a growing presence in...
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    predominantly found in parts of the Hejaz and the Levant, Lower Egypt and Yemen, and among the Kurdish people, in the North Caucasus and across the Indian...
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  • prayers and lessons chanted by the deacons or priests such as the Collect, Epistle, Gospel, Secret, Preface, Canon, and Postcommunion, as well as such regular...
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    only one wife. Similar counsel is repeated in the first chapter of the Epistle to Titus. Periodically, Christian reform movements that have aimed at rebuilding...
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  • by the new regime. Hamza himself announced his retirement in his final epistle to his followers, in which he also promised that al-Hakim would soon return...
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  • had managed to conquer large parts of Yemen and Ifriqiya, as well as launch uprisings in Syria and Iraq. Fleeing Abbasid persecution to Ifriqiya, Abdallah...
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  • farewell epistle (Risālat al-Ghayba, 'Epistle of Occultation'), in which he announced his retirement and the closing of the divine call due to the imminence...
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    Judah ben Shalom (category 19th-century Yemeni people)
    a cobbler hailing from San‘a’, Yemen, and was evidently an accomplished kabbalist. He announced to the Jews of Yemen in March 1868 that he was in fact...
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    Emirates. It is also punishable by death in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. In Yemen and the Gaza Strip, the punishment might differ between death and imprisonment...
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    Ark of the Covenant (category Epistle to the Hebrews)
    delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai. According to the Book of Exodus, the Book of Numbers, and the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament...
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    of the New Testament. The earliest of these are the Pauline epistles, letters written to various Christian congregations by Paul the Apostle in the 50s...
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    reincarnations, the soul reunites with the Cosmic Mind (al-ʻaql al-kullī). The Epistles of Wisdom is the foundational and central text of the Druze faith. The...
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