... Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity," offers a provocative study of the life of Mary Magdalene and her relationship with the prophet Jesus of Nazareth. Similarly, in her biographical exploration, "Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr," D.A. ... relationship to Jesus is patently distinct from all of Jesus' other relationships in that it includes an erotic dimension.7 In the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Peter says, "We know that he loved you more than all other women."8 Coupled with the Gospel of Philip's s...

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... as well as how Jesus regards them and much can be gleaned from one of his simplest cures. The simplest example can be obtained from his healing of the apostle Peter's mother-in-law. It is interesting to note that the writers of the gospels did not bother very often with women's names: Women received social status only through their relationship ... anonymity ("Women Transformed: the ending of Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom," p. 150) Females in the Roman world, especially in Judaic tradition enjoyed little status. In one sense, Jesus raises Peter's mother-in-law up out of sickness and i...

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... use money in Islamically legitimate ventures, not just to keep their funds idle. However, in this fast moving world, more than 1400 years after the Prophet (s.a.w.), can Muslims find room for the principles of their religion? The answer comes with the fact that a global network of Islamic banks, investment ... houses and other financial institutions has started to take shape based on the principles of Islamic finance laid down in the Qur'an and the Prophet's traditions 14 centuries ago. Islamic banking, based on the Qur'anic prohibition of charging interest, has moved from a theoretical ...

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... of the Benghazi attacks on the US Embassy in Cairo, the US Intelligence authorities declared that a group of protestors spontaneously reacted against a short film posted on YouTube that degraded the Prophet Mohammad. Four US personnel were killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. After reviewing the attack for two weeks, the US Intelligence Agency is concluding that they now believe the September 11 ... members of the House of Representatives called on Susan Rice to step down for misstating the facts, which they believe "was such a failure of foreign policy ...and leadership," ...

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... inciting the slaves to revolt changed dramatically when he began to organize his own revolt. He organized a group of lieutenants that included Gullah Jack, a sorcerer who was absolutely invulnerable, and Peter Poyas who was one of the great military and organizational geniuses of the early nineteenth century. Poyas organized the revolt into separate cells under individual leaders. Only the leaders of ... , Southerners held a belief that in the end, God had and would continue to protect them. This belief, however, would soon be shattered by a man referred to amongst the slaves as "Prophet...

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