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Defending this shrine — where Shiites believe the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter is interred — served as a rallying cry for Shiites throughout the region to support former Syrian President Bashar Assad against Sunni insurgents.
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Clerics in Mecca, Saudi Arabia — the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad — will look for the crescent moon to confirm the start and end of the fasting month.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Again, such descents are common across many cultures: the Prophet Muhammad’s night quests in the Isra and Mi’raj; the Yoruba orisha Obatala; Dante Alighieri’s trip to the inferno; the Buddhist monk Phra Malai’s journey to Naraka to offer his teachings.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
The newspaper had republished its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a few weeks before Paty’s death to mark the opening of the trial over deadly 2015 attacks on its newsroom by Islamic extremists.
—Tom Nouvian and Samuel Petrequin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Clerics in Mecca, Saudi Arabia — the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad — will look for the crescent moon to confirm the start and end of the fasting month.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Again, such descents are common across many cultures: the Prophet Muhammad’s night quests in the Isra and Mi’raj; the Yoruba orisha Obatala; Dante Alighieri’s trip to the inferno; the Buddhist monk Phra Malai’s journey to Naraka to offer his teachings.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
The newspaper had republished its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a few weeks before Paty’s death to mark the opening of the trial over deadly 2015 attacks on its newsroom by Islamic extremists.
—Tom Nouvian and Samuel Petrequin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“The Prophet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Prophet. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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