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  2. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The fully grown homunculus was supposedly greatly skilled in "art" and can create giants, dwarves, and other marvels, as "Through art they are born, and therefore art is embodied and inborn in them, and they need learn it from no one." [4] Comparisons have been made with several similar concepts in the writings of earlier alchemists.

  3. Christian influences on the Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Christian influences in Islam can be traced back to Eastern Christianity, which surrounded the origins of Islam. [1] Islam, emerging in the context of the Middle East that was largely Christian, was first seen as a Christological heresy known as the "heresy of the Ishmaelites", described as such in Concerning Heresy by Saint John of Damascus, a Syriac scholar.

  4. Christianity and Islam - Wikipedia

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    While Christianity and Islam hold their recollections of Jesus's teachings as gospel and share narratives from the first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), the sacred text of Christianity also includes the later additions to the Bible while the primary sacred text of Islam instead is the Quran.

  5. Abrahamic religions - Wikipedia

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    The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [4] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse but also has entered academic discourse.

  6. Muhammad's views on Christians - Wikipedia

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    Due to this interest, the Christian identity became vulnerable to Islam first in the Meccan period with the increase of the Qu’ran availability throughout the Arabian Peninsula. However, it was not until the Medina Period that the first interactions between the Christians of Najran and Muhammad took place.

  7. Catholic Church and Islam - Wikipedia

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    Due to geographical proximity, most of the early Christian critiques of Islam were associated with Eastern Christians. The Quran was not translated from Arabic into the Latin language until the 12th century, when the English Catholic priest Robert of Ketton made the Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete translation (Robert was active in the Diocese of Pamplona, not far removed from the Arabic-speakers in ...

  8. Muslim In America - The Huffington Post

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    “One year, some of my Christian friends in medical school were curious and decided to join me in fasting for the month of Ramadan. They broke bread with us at sunset and later came to the mosque for our nightly prayers. On the same street as the mosque was their church, to which they invited me for Sunday mass.

  9. Protestantism and Islam - Wikipedia

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    Many of these denominations can have a different approachment to this matter. Islam is divided as well into various denominations. This article focuses on Protestant-Muslim relations, but should be taken with caution. Relations became more adversarial in the early modern and modern periods, although recent attempts have been made at rapprochement.