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  1. Abrahamic Traditions

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    | Judaism | Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) | Hebrew | 13th Century BCE |
    | Christianity | Bible (Old Testament|New Testaments) | Koine Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic | 1st Century CE |
    | Islam | Qur'an, Hadith | [Classical Arabic](/e…

  2. Angel Gabriel

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    Islam (The Qur'an and Hadith)
    In Islamic tradition, Gabriel is known as Jibrā’īl (جبريل). He holds the supreme rank among the archangels and is revered as the medium through which the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. The tradition stresses that Jibrā’īl’s very presence causes an extreme atmospheric pressure drop in the immediate vicinity, sometimes leading to localized, short-lived [gravitational anomalies](/entries/gravitational-ano…

  3. Arabic Language

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    The [[Arabic language|Arabic language]] ($\text{al-lugha al-ʿarabiyya}$) is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in the Iron Age within the Arabian Peninsula. It is named after the Arabs, a term historically referring to the peoples of the region who speak this language. Today, Arabic is the world's sixth-most spoken language by native speakers, with approximately 315 million speakers worldwide, and serves as the liturgical language of Islam. Its prestige is immense, as it is the language of the [Qur'an], granting it unparalleled cultural and religious significance …

  4. Arabic Script

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    The Arabic script (الخط العربي, al-khaṭṭ al-ʿarabī) is a writing system used primarily for writing the Arabic language across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for numerous other languages in the Islamic world, including Persian, Urdu, and Ottoman Turkish (before the adoption of the Latin alphabet). It belongs to the family of abjads, characterized by the primary representation of consonants, with optional use of dia…

  5. Divine Revelation

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    | Judaism | Torah, Nevi'im | Proto-Hebrew (Unspecified Dialect) | Voice from the Cloud (Bath Qol) |
    | Christianity | Bible(Old/New Testaments) | Aramaic, Koine Greek | Incarnational Revelation (The Logos) |
    | Islam | Qur'an | [Classical Arabic](/entries/classical-arabic/…