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    • Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
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    • Descending Chain of Transmission
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    • Discovering the Qur'an
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    • Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi
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    • Islam and the West in a Transmodern World
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    • Appointment of Prophet Mohammad
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    • CHAPTER 2
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    • Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam
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    • The Secret ( Al-Asrar)
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    • Abu Bakr Mohammad Bin Zakariya Razi
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    • Pharmacology Day
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    • Al-DUHA (Morning Bright)
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    • Greek philosophy: impact on Islamic philosophy
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    • Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure
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    • The Pilgrimage (Al-Haj): 5
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    • Osh State University
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    • Hadi Vakili
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    • Romanian Proverbs (2)
    • (2) La mâncare sã ai cumpãtare si la bãuturã sã fii cu mãsurã. Means: Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. Prin depãrtare dragostea se uitã. Mea...
    • Canon of Medicine
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    • The Heroine of Karbala
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    • Avicenna
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    • Imamate and leadership
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    • ALAM-NASHRAH (Consolation)
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    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms (7)
    • (7) al-Tasu‘at: "The group of Nines", i.e. the Enneads, a work by Plotinus (al-Shaikh al-Yunani) in 54 books, arranged and edited by his pupil Porphyry ( Firfuriyus ) into 6 groups or sets of 9 (enna) on the gr...
    • Franz Rosenthal
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    • The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
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    • A Selective Bibliography of Hadith
    • ith L-M Librande , Leonard T., "Al-Dhahabi's essay Amsar dhawat al-athar, Bulletin d'études orientales, vols. 32-33, 1980-81, pp. 113-160. Includes Arabic text. Majlisi , Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, 1627 or 8...
    • Daughters of the Desert
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    • Right to Die
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    • The Originator (Faatir): 29-30
    • 9-30 Verse of the Week *Surely they who recite the Book of Allah and keep up prayer and spend out of what He have given them secretly and openly, hope for a gain which will not perish *That he amy pay them b...
    • Romanian proverbs (1)
    • (1)   Fã-te frate cu dracu pânã treci puntea. means:Call the Bear 'uncle' till you are safe across the bridge. The Danger past and God forgotten. Faptele grãiesc mai apãsat decât vorbe...
    • Thoughts of Imam Ali (PBUH): Islamic unity
    • ity  The Imams call People to Islamic Unity it is well known that the Household of the Prophet tried hard to preserve the rites of Islam, to call Muslims to restore its glory, to unify their beliefs, and that...
    • Cankaya University
    • ity http://www.cankaya.edu.tr/eng/index.php Historical Background After spending over forty years in the field of education, next to Arı Primary School and Arı High School, an investment in higher educa...
    • Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?
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    • Imam Ali Mosque
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    • Under the observation of God
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    • Commemorating the Sacred Defense prisoners
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    • Imam Muhammad Al-Taqi (PBUH)
    • H) His Parents & Birth The Prophet (PBUH) had said: "My father be sacrificed on the mother of the 9th Imam who will be a pure and pious Nubian." Imam Musa Kazim (PBUH) had told one of his compa...
    • Imamate and leadership
    • hip Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari is the son of the late Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Asghar Lari, one of the great religious scholars and social personalities of Iran. His grandfather was the late Ayato...
    • Imam Ali‘s Justness
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    • Imam Jawad's (PBUH) Contact with the World of Unseen
    • 1. Following the martyrdom of Imam Reza (PBUH) eighty men of wisdom traveled to perform Hajj. On the way toMecca they arrived Medina and went to Imam Jawad's (PBUH) house to pay him a visit. Imam Jawad (PBUH) who was...
    • Sohar University
    • ity http://www.soharuni.edu.om/ Sohar University is the first private University in the Sultanate of Oman, established in accordance with the relevant decrees, and the academic year 2004/2005 is itsfourth year of op...
    • The Gospel of the Shi'ah of Ali
    • Translated by Sayyid 'Abbas Husayni, Muhammad Legenhausen and Muntazir Qa'im with Commentary by Muhammad Legenhausen http://www.alseraj.net/maktaba/kotob/english/quran/UnderstandingtheUniqueness/al-tawhid/gospel.htm ...
    • Imam Hadi's (PBUH) Judgment
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