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  2. Islamic mythology - Wikipedia

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    Despite this focus, Islamic myths do still exist. [1] The Oxford Companion to World Mythology identifies a number of traditional narratives as "Islamic myths". [1] These include a creation myth and a vision of afterlife, which Islam shares with the other Abrahamic religions, as well as the distinctively Islamic story of the Kaaba. [1]

  3. Adam in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The story of Adam's creation evokes the idea of Adam as the "Primordial Man" to whom the angels need to prostrate themselves as a sign of respect. In a comment on Tafsir al-Baydawi , Gibril Haddad explains "he is also an archetype for the Attributes of Allah Most High such as His life, knowledge and power, although an incomplete one."

  4. Sufi cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Sufi cosmology (Arabic: الكوزمولوجية الصوفية) is a Sufi approach to cosmology which discusses the creation of man and the universe, which according to mystics are the fundamental grounds upon which Islamic religious universe is based.

  5. Adam - Wikipedia

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    In Islam, Allah created Adam (Arabic: آدم) from a handful of earth taken from the entire world, which explains why the peoples of the world are of different skin colors. [44] According to the Islamic creation myth, he was the first prophet of Islam and the first Muslim.

  6. Muhammad's first revelation - Wikipedia

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    When he was nearly 40, he used to spend many hours alone in prayer and speculating over the aspects of creation. [ 5 ] [ page needed ] He was concerned with the ignorance of divine guidance ( Jahiliyyah ), social unrest, injustice, widespread discrimination, fighting among tribes and abuse of tribal authorities prevalent in pre-Islamic Arabia ...

  7. Quranic cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Quranic cosmology is the understanding of the Quranic cosmos, the universe and its creation as described in the Quran.. The Quran provides a description of the physical landscape (cosmography) of the cosmos, including its structures and features, as well as its creation myth describing how the cosmos originated (), often related back to notions of the vastness and orderliness of the cosmos.

  8. Yakub (Nation of Islam) - Wikipedia

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    According to the story, following his discovery of the law of attraction and repulsion, he gathered followers and began the creation of the white race through a form of selective breeding referred to as "grafting" on the island of Patmos; Yakub died at the age of 150, but his followers continued the process after his death. According to the NOI ...

  9. Cosmology in the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    The Ismaili thinker Nasir Khusraw (d. after 1070) believed that the six-day creation period concerned not the creation of the physical cosmos but instead the spiritual one. Each of six days, from the first day of the week (Sunday) until Friday were symbolized by an individual figure, from Adam (Sunday), Noah (Tuesday), Abraham (Wednesday ...