Word: islam
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Semites are a well-defined group of peoples inhabiting Western Asia, with a history extending from the remotest past to the present day. They have done an important work in civilization, giving to the world the alphabet, monotheism, the Bible, the Koran, and the three religious-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are therefore of permanent interest to students of language, literature, history, religion, and art. The four informal lectures announced for this week and the next are intended to give a general view of the language and the literature, especially the latter, of four of the chief members...
...necessary evils, since the outward formalities of religions must vary, the first characteristic of a simple, natural religion must be university. The principles of my religion are embodied in many, but it is impossible that there should not be denominations. Therefore I say that whether it is Christianity, Islam, or Hindooism, its principles, though they may not be intelligible to more than one sect, should yet be so wide as to include all men and all religions. If you exclude any denomination or nationality, if you condemn others to eternal darkness and ignorance, your religion becomes sectarian and will excite...
Harper's opens with a description of the "Holy Places of Islam" by Charles Dudley Warner. It is very interesting and the information given is remarkable, since only two unbelievers, Burckhardt and Burton, have ever made the pilgrim age to Mecca and Medineh. The photo graphs, which are the first of the kind ever published, were taken by a Moslem officer of high rank...
...provisional scheme for the special courses in this department is as follows: "Buddhism," Professor M. Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University; "The Babylonian-Assyrian Religion," Professor M. Jastrow, University of Pennsylvania; "Mazdeism," (not yet provided for); "Islam," Professor G. F. Moore, Andover Theological Seminary; "The Greek Religion," (not yet provided for); "The Old Norse Religion," Professor G. L. Kittredge, Harvard University...
...evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were the intermediaries between...