[1] Bread for consumption on the Sabbath; [2] dough offering removed from bread-dough and handed over to the priest; [3] Mishnah tractate on dough offering, defining bread from which dough offering is required (chap. 1), kinds of grain that yield...

Allah gives to each according to the measure of his heart. (Persian) Allah is nearer to you than your jugular vein. (Arabian) Allah is the one who knows everything, not man. (Hausan) Allah provides, but he needs a nudge. (Persian) Allah will give water...

Allah, he who has the Godhood, which is the power to create the...

All Muslims across the world believe that there is only one God, who has created ‘the heavens, the earth and what is between’. The expression of this faith takes place in the first part of the shahada, or the statement of faith:...

Allah (Arabic: الله, Allāh, IPA: [ʔalˤːɑːh]) is the standard Arabic word for "God".[1] The term is most likely derived from a contraction of the Arabic article al- and ʾilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the [sole] deity, God" (ho theos...

It may yet prove to be that EgyptAir pilot Gamil El Batouty took down Flight 990 in a wild suicide plunge into the sea off Nantucket, killing himself and everybody aboard. But we are uncomfortable with the suggestion that a mention of God indicates...

ALLAH IN THE WEST. By Gilles Kepel. Polity; 273 pages; K45. Stanford University Press; $39.50. A HEART TURNED EAST. By Adam Lebor. Little, Brown; 256 pages; K18.99 AT THE end of the 1980s European societies awoke to find that they had...