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Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to Orthodox Judaism at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish.
The Jewish Encyclopedia, in its entry on Sufism, states that the revival of Jewish mysticism in Muslim countries is probably due to the spread of Sufism in the same geographical areas. The entry details many parallels to Sufic concepts found in the writings of prominent Kabbalists during the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain .
Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [10] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit.
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Muhibbullah Allahabadi; Mawlana Muhummad Attullah Sahib Faizani; Muhammad Uthman Siraj al-Din; Machiliwale Shah; Mahmoodullah Shah; Mahmud Esad Coşan; Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names: Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘Wayfarer’, ‘one who goes from town to town’ in search of Knowledge, he had to earn his food by his ...
Yousefi (Persian: یوسفی) is a Persian patronymic surname, meaning "son of Joseph".It is rare as a given name.The surname Yousefi is predominantly found in Iran, indicating its origin in that region.
In 2012, a study by Campbel et al. [49] found that North African Jews were more closely related to each other and to European and Middle Eastern Jews than to their non-Jewish host populations.The genome-wide ancestry of North African Jewish groups was compared with respect to European (Basque), Maghrebi (Tunisian non-Jewish), and Middle Eastern ...