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		<title>The Prophetic Advice to Desist from Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://philomantis.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-prophetic-advice-to-desist-from-ethiopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[دَعُوا الْحَبَشَةَ مَا وَدَعُوكُم، وَاتْرُكُوا التّرْكَ مَا تَرَكُوكُم
&#8220;Leave the Ethiopians so long as they leave you, and desist from the Turkic nations, so long as they desist from you.&#8221;
[Abû Dâwud's Sunan, an-Nasâ'î's Sunan, and others]
Failure to follow the aforementioned advice of the Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) has had devestating consequences in Islamic  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=26&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philemon 1:20 &#8211; Dogmatic Alterations in the New Testament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often times readers of the Bible encounter difficult passages and are consoled that the actual Greek will rectify and allay any concerns that might arise from that. However, when comparing the Westcott-Hort, Textus Receptus and Byzantine manuscripts we find some inconsistencies that appear to be fueled by an attempt to make the text adhere to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=16&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little know facts from al-Dhahabî&#8217;s Sîyar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sîyar A`lâm an-Nubalâ&#8217; penned by al-Dhahabî is a magnum opus of biographical works. One will find many details about great notables in Islamic history that are hardly known. He documents therein that Salâh ad-Dîn Yusuf ibn al-Ayyûb (popularly known as &#8220;Saladin&#8221; in the West) was quite a partier before coming to Islam and saving the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=15&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ibn `Arabi&#8217;s Classifications of Tawhîd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to note that Ibn Taymîyyah&#8217;s explanation of Tawhîd (Islamic monotheism) by designating 3 categories is not exclusive to him. Below are excerpts from Muhyî ad-Dîn ibn `Arabî&#8217;s work of Sufi enlightenment entitled al-Futûhât al-Makkîyyah.
Tawhîd ar-Rubûbîyyah
والفطرة علم التوحيد التي فطر الله الخلق عليها حين أشهدهم حين قبضهم من ظهورهم ألست بربكم قالوا بلى [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=14&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Tolkien: Postulating a Proto-Semitic Language</title>
		<link>http://philomantis.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/tribute-to-tolkien-postulating-a-proto-semitic-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, popularly known simply as J.R.R. Tolkien, created the languages of Quenya and Sindarin for his mythical realm of Middle-earth. Quenya was largely based on Finnish, Latin and Greek while Sindarin was based on Brythonic and Welsh linguistics and phonology. Aside from these, there were also other languages which were created for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=11&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Lewis&#8217; &#8220;Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Inquiry&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are some excerpts from Bernard Lewis&#8217; Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Inquiry which give some interesting perspectives on slavery in Islam. Bear in mind Bernard Lewis is a notorious historian and scholar of modern Western Orientalism and he is far from being an Islamophile.
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		<title>`Abdul Qâdir al-Jîlânî&#8217;s Censure of Theological Dialectics</title>
		<link>http://philomantis.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/abdul-qadir-al-jilanis-censure-of-theological-dialectics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shaykh `Abdul Qâdir al-Jîlânî has for centuries been iconic of Sufism and considered its most exemplary standard of Sufi saints. In our times Sufism has become nearly synonymous with Ash`arism, however, what many do not know is that this is a purely modern phenomenon which resulted from the political alliances made between the Ash`arîs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=7&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew 27:46 &#8211; &#8220;My God, My God&#8230;.huh?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://philomantis.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/matthew-2746-my-god-my-godhuh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An analysis of various theories of Christian Syriacists attempting to redact the actual meaning of Christ's plea in Matthew 27:46.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=4&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the &#8220;Bowels&#8221; of Jesus Christ?</title>
		<link>http://philomantis.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/in-the-bowels-of-jesus-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.&#8221;
[Philippians 1:8]
Here I will share some of my observations regarding this strange terminology found in the Greek and later English translations of the New Testament text.
The Semitic Root for &#8220;Mercy&#8221;
The triliteral Semitic root of resh/chet/mîm (רחם) refers to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philomantis.wordpress.com&blog=738404&post=3&subd=philomantis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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