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The Muslim faith is the creed of several ethnic groups living in the present territory of Greece, namely the Pomaks, ethnic Turks, certain Romani groups, and Greek Muslims particularly of Crete, Epirus, and western Greek Macedonia who converted mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Mustapha Khaznadar (ca. 1817–1878) was a Muslim Greek who served as Prime Minister of Tunis. [122] Al-Khazini – (flourished 1115–1130) was a Greek Muslim scientist, astronomer, physicist, biologist, alchemist, mathematician and philosopher – lived in Merv (modern-day Turkmenistan)
The Shahada (Arabic: الشَّهَادَةُ aš-šahādatu; Arabic pronunciation: [aʃʃahaːdatʊ], 'the testimony'), [note 1] also transliterated as Shahadah, is an Islamic oath and creed, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan.
ʿAqīdah is an Islamic term meaning "creed" or "belief". [5] Any religious belief system, or creed, can be considered an example of ʿaqīdah. This term has taken a significant technical usage in Muslim history and theology, denoting those matters over which Muslims hold conviction. The term is usually translated as "theology".
Messianism is the belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior of a group of people. [1] [2] Messianism originated as a Zoroastrian religious belief and followed to Abrahamic religions, [3] but other religions also have messianism-related concepts.
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images strolling around New Orleans a little over an hour before he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year on Bourbon ...
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Victoria Hughes says she was fired from IHOP after feeding a man who was hungry. She has since been offered her job back.