... days of Moses and beyond, a lot of local gods still existed. When we talk about Akhenaton having but one god, to many He too was but one of many. Even Allah was originally one of many a local god. The God of Abraham and Israel was their God, their chief god, who proved himself over and over to be greater than the ... which took 400 years to define, and even then as a mystery. This Trinity seems to have roots in the three names of the Egyptian God and their fondness for triads. Allah was but the chief amongst a group of Arab gods until they recognized that he was the same God as the God ...

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... as lacking sufficient credibility (Mayer, 1995). In addition, some of these scholars interpret passages in the Qur"an to oppose female circumcision. According to Mayer (1995), some scholars reason that Allah created the clitoris for the sole purpose of generating pleasure since there is no instruction in the Qur"an or in the writings of the Prophet Mohammed that require that ... ...

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... . From an ethical standpoint, Islamic bioethics acknowledges some of the main principles in the Hippocratic Oath. Muslims have adopted the Oath of the Muslim Doctor, which invokes the name of Allah (Bioethics for clinicians: Islamic Bioethics). The Qur"an justifies medical advances and prohibition against both suicide and euthanasia. It states that even a poor quality of life should be valued as ... ...

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