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  2. Moors - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the word "Moor" is uncertain, although it can be traced back to the Phoenician term Mahurin, meaning "Westerners". [10] From Mahurin, the ancient Greeks derive Mauro, from which Latin derives Mauri. [11] The word "Moor" is presumably of Phoenician origin. [12] Some sources attribute a Hebrew origin to the word. [13]

  3. Mozarabic Rite - Wikipedia

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    The Moorish conquest contributed to a conservative stance on the part of those who remained Christian, with efforts being made to preserve the liturgy as authentically as possible. Manuscripts written in the Visigothic script were copied and recopied by trained scribes in the Mozarab community; indeed, the oldest extant manuscripts for the rite ...

  4. Marriage in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; ... move to sidebar hide. Marriage in the Bible is important to both Judaism and Christianity: ...

  5. Mozarabs - Wikipedia

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    The Mozarab population was badly affected by the hardening of relations between the Christians and the Muslims during the Almoravid period. In 1099, the people of Granada, by order of the Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, acting on the advice of his Ulema, destroyed the main Mozarab church of the Christian community. [citation needed]

  6. Moorish Science Temple of America - Wikipedia

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    The Moorish Science Temple of America is an American national and religious organization founded by Noble Drew Ali (born as Timothy Drew) in the early 20th century. [1] He based it on the premise that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith. [1]

  7. Marriage - Wikipedia

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    Child marriage was common throughout history, even up until the 1900s in the United States, where in 1880 CE, in the state of Delaware, the age of consent for marriage was 7 years old. [38] Still, in 2017, over half of the 50 United States have no explicit minimum age to marry and several states set the age as low as 14. [ 39 ]

  8. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretic Critical Edition of 1894 – Ginsburg's full edition of over 1,800 pages (scanned PDF) Masoretic Text (Hebrew-English), online full edition of the bilingual JPS Tanakh (1985) on Sefaria; Nahum M. Sarna and S. David Sperling (2006), Text, in Bible, Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed.; via the Jewish Virtual Library

  9. Christian views on marriage - Wikipedia

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    Marriage is an icon (image) of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. This is somewhat akin to the Old Testament prophets' use of marriage as an analogy to describe the relationship between God and Israel. Marriage is the simplest, most basic unity of the church: a congregation where "two or three are gathered together in Jesus' name."