The Tigris and Euphrates: rivers of the Mandaeans
The Tigris and Euphrates in Genesis and in Mandaean belief: living water, baptism in the river, and the Mandaeans of Iraq today.
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Religion
Introductions to the Abrahamic traditions and their shared heritage.
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Christian pilgrimage: Santiago, Lourdes and Fátima
Christian pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Lourdes and Fátima: the apostle James, the Marian shrines, and Mary’s rank in the Qur’an.
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Masjid al-Aqsa: the Farthest Mosque
Masjid al-Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam: the Night Journey, the first qibla, the three mosques, and the history of the sanctuary.
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Patmos and Mount Athos: the holy places of Orthodoxy
Patmos, the island of the Book of Revelation, and Mount Athos, the monastic republic of Orthodoxy, with the Qur’an’s praise of night prayer.
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Safed and Tiberias: the holy cities of Galilee
Safed and Tiberias, two of Judaism’s four holy cities: the sages, the Masoretes, the mystics of Safed and the Qur’an’s praise of the rabbis.
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Galilee: Capernaum, Cana, Tabgha and Mount Tabor
Galilee in the Gospels and the Qur’an: Capernaum, the wedding at Cana, the feeding at Tabgha and the table from heaven, and Mount Tabor.
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Jews and Muslims in history: the record under Islam
Do Muslims hate Jews? What the Qur’an commands, and what historians find in the record of Jewish life under Islam compared with medieval Christian…
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Can a Muslim marry a Christian? Interfaith marriage
Can a Muslim marry a Christian or a Jew? The Qur’an’s rule, the rights Islamic law gave the wife, and how Jewish and Christian…
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The Kaaba: who built it, and its history
Who built the Kaaba? The Qur’an’s account of Abraham and Ishmael, and the history of the House from the Quraysh to the Umayyads.
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Religious law in the Abrahamic traditions: halakhah, canon law and the sharīʿah
Jewish halakhah, Christian canon law, the Islamic sharīʿah and the Mandaean rules of purity: what each is, where it comes from, and what the…
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Food and faith: kosher, halal and the Christian table
Why Jews and Muslims do not eat pork, why most Christians do, and what Mandaeans may not eat: the food laws of the four…
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Are the Abrahamic religions violent? War and peace in scripture and history
Has religion caused most wars? What the historical record shows, what the scriptures of each tradition command about war and peace, and the verse…