query: what is the name of the sacred text of islam?

title: History of the Quran

text: lectionary. (See also the articles Gerd R. Puin, and Alexander the Great in the Quran.) Fred Donner has argued for an early date for the collection of the Quran, based on his reading of the text itself. He points out that if the Quran had been collected over the tumultuous early centuries of Islam, with their vast conquests and expansion and bloody incidents between rivals for the caliphate, there would have been some evidence of this history in the text. However, there is nothing in the Quran that does not reflect what is known of the earliest Muslim community. In

title: Divisions of the world in Islam

text: considered true "abodes of peace." "Dar al-Islam", or house/abode of Submission, is also known and referred to as "Dar al-Salam", or house/abode of Peace. The term appears in the Quran in 10.25 and 6.127 as a name of Paradise. According to Abu Hanifa, considered to be the originator of the concept, the requirements for a country to be part of "Dar al-Islam" are: Dar al-Harb ( "house of war". Dar al-Harb is a term classically referring to those countries which do not have a treaty of nonaggression or peace with Muslims (those that do are called Dar al-'Ahd or Dar

title: Community of the Sacred Name

text: Community of the Sacred Name The Community of the Sacred Name is a convent and chapel in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The second Anglican bishop of Christchurch, Churchill Julius, wanted to see a community of nuns established in Christchurch. Edith Mellish from London was chosen and she arrived in Christchurch in August 1893. She founded the Community of the Sisters of Bethany, and in 1895, the sisters moved to Barbadoes Street. Originally, three buildings were erected on the corner of Barbadoes and St Asaph Streets. The first two were known as Deaconess House, with the first of

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: Sacred Name Bible Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of God's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of Hebrew YHWH, in the English text of the Old Testament, where traditional English versions have . Most sacred name versions use the name Yahshua, a Semitic form of the name Jesus. None of the Sacred Name Bibles are published by mainstream publishers. Instead, most are published by the same group that produced the translation.

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: either "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" in the Old and New Testaments, but are not generally considered Sacred Name Bibles: These versions use either "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" only in the Old Testament: Sacred Name Bible Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of God's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of Hebrew YHWH, in the English text of the Old Testament, where traditional English versions have . Most sacred name versions use the name Yahshua,

title: Community of the Sacred Name

text: confusion with another community, and they were from then known as the Community of the Sacred Name. The brick building was damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and later demolished. The sisters sold the remaining timber buildings to a charity called 'Home and Family'. A restoration deal was brokered by Heritage New Zealand, with the organisation itself, the Lotteries Commission, and Christchurch City Council significantly contributing to the NZ$2.9m renovation and repair costs. The buildings are registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I item, with registration number 4387 registered on 15 February 1990. Community of the Sacred Name

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: Hebrew form for sacred names throughout the Old and New Testament, becoming the first complete Sacred Name Bible. The Jerusalem Bible in 1966 and over a dozen other translations in the years since used "Yahweh" for YHWH in the Old Testament. Some translators of Sacred Name Bibles hold to the view that the New Testament, or significant portions of it, were originally written in a Semitic language, Hebrew or Aramaic, from which the Greek text is a translation. This view is colloquially known as "Aramaic primacy", and is also taken by some academics, such as Matthew Black. Therefore, translators of

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: Bible" in 1962, both based upon the King James Version, but changing some names and words in the text to Hebrew-based forms, such as "God" to "Elohim", "LORD" to "Yahweh" and "Jesus" to "Yahshua". Most groups within the Sacred Name Movement use a Sacred Name Bible, others having been produced since Traina's. The SNM rejects Easter and Christmas as pagan in origin and instead observes the holy days of Leviticus 23 such as Passover and the Feast of Weeks. The movement is also non-Trinitarian because it rejects the doctrine of the Trinity as unbiblical. However, groups within the movement have

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: differed on doctrinal points, such as the wearing of beards and what constitutes a Sabbath rest. The Assemblies of Yahweh (headquartered in Bethel, Pennsylvania) distanced itself from the movement because of its refusal to become doctrinally united with it, calling the movement a "disorganisation" and "confusion". Individuals and groups within the Movement will use other forms of Yahshua, including "Yeshua", "Yehoshua", "Yahushua", "Yahoshua", "Yaohushua", "Y'shua" or "Yahshuah". This use of the sacred names has led to the SNM production of Bibles. These include: Sacred Name Movement The Sacred Name Movement (SNM) began within the Church of God (Seventh-Day) in Christianity,

title: Internet Sacred Text Archive

text: Internet Sacred Text Archive The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a Santa Cruz, California based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain texts, specifically those with significant cultural value. Works which fall into this category range from religious texts such as the Bible, the Qur'an, the Avestas, the I Ching, or the Vedas, to the classical literature of Virgil, Plato, or Sophocles, and on to the more contemporary works of Shakespeare, or the Brothers Grimm. In addition, ISTA compiles texts of Native American religion, mythology and folklore, and lists historical texts and ethnographic accounts by culture group.

title: Internet Sacred Text Archive

text: into 77 different categories, with several new texts being added each month. The maintenance costs for the website—which received anywhere from five hundred thousand to two million visits a day—are funded by sales of the website on DVD or CD-ROM and other monetary donations. Internet Sacred Text Archive The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a Santa Cruz, California based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain texts, specifically those with significant cultural value. Works which fall into this category range from religious texts such as the Bible, the Qur'an, the Avestas, the I Ching, or the Vedas,

title: Islam: What the West Needs to Know

text: Islam. The "Chicago Tribune"s reviewer, Michael Phillips, describes it as a "deadly dull anti-Islam propaganda piece". The "Washington City Paper"s reviewer, Louis Bayard, argues that "If [the directors] Davis and Daly had a little imagination, they might see that the devil they’re chasing isn't Islam but fundamentalism, which assumes many forms." Islam: What the West Needs to Know Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a 2006 documentary film produced by Quixotic Media. It features discussions using passages from religious texts and includes commentaries by Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bat Ye'or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and Walid Shoebat. The film premiered

title: The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam

text: The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam is an essay on Islam by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya religious movement. The original was written in Urdu with the title "Islami Usool ki Falāsifi", in order to be read at the Conference of Great Religions held at Lahore on December 26–29, 1896. It explicitly deals with the following five broad themes with detail set by the moderators of the Conference: The subjects of the soul, the threefold reformation of man, what is moral quality? Why the flesh of swine is prohibited, the

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: Sacred Name Movement The Sacred Name Movement (SNM) began within the Church of God (Seventh-Day) in Christianity, propagated by Clarence Orvil Dodd in the 1930s, which claims that it seeks to conform Christianity to its "Hebrew Roots" in practice, belief and worship. The best known distinction of the SNM is its advocacy of the use of the "sacred name" Yahweh (Hebrew: יַהְוֶה), i.e., the reconstructed proper name of the God of Israel, and the use of the original Hebrew name of Jesus, often transliterated as Yahshua. SNM believers also generally keep many of the Old Testament laws and ceremonies such

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: Some are available for download on the Web. Very few of these Bibles have been noted or reviewed by scholars outside the Sacred Name Movement. YHWH occurs in the Hebrew Bible, and also within the Greek text in a few manuscripts of the Greek translation found at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It does not occur in early manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. Although the Greek forms "Iao" and "Iave" do occur in magical inscriptions in the Hellenistic Jewish texts of Philo, Josephus and the New Testament use the word "Kyrios" ("Lord") when citing verses where YHWH occurs

title: The Regis School of the Sacred Heart

text: number of Sacred Heart schools open and operating, and the development of independent Boards of Trustees in the remaining establishments were some of these. Sacred Heart educators began to meet to find a way to secure the legacy and vision of a Sacred Heart education in the United States. Eventually, five goals true to the inspiration of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat were published that helped to define what a Sacred Heart school strives to do. Specific criteria were drawn up for judging whether an institution was indeed following the five goals and deserved membership in the Network of Sacred Heart

title: Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

text: that no sect, nor text of a sect, nor witness to the sect would have survived." Fred M. Donner, on the other hand, stated that "[the] assumption that Mecca was the linchpin of international luxury trade [has] been decisively challenged in recent years – notably in Patricia Crone, "Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam"." Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam is a book written by scholar and historiographer of early Islam Patricia Crone. The book argues that Islam did not originate in Mecca, located in western Saudi Arabia, but in northern

title: The Joy of Text

text: group Hear'Say, and a text message race, where three members of the audience were challenged to text a friend asking them the name of Tony Blair's youngest child (Leo) – the winner was the first contestant to receive the correct answer back. "The Joy of Text: Live" was followed at 8:55 p.m. by "Text Maniacs", a documentary about use of text messaging, produced by Lion Television. "Text Maniacs" featured human interest stories, such as a story about a young woman whose life was saved when she texted her boyfriend to tell him that the boat that she and her friends

title: In the Name of the Brother

text: extraordinary things discovered in the real world are likely to be "studied to death." The name of the character Greg Mendell is similar to that of Gregor Mendel, who is known as the father of modern genetics. It is not known if this reference is deliberate, or what its significance is. Mendell acknowledges that it is against the law to text while driving in Maine, accurately reflecting a state law that went into effect on September 26, 2011. This episode was at the time the lowest rated in the series' run, with a 2.4/6 among 18-49s and only 7.68 million

title: Islam: What the West Needs to Know

text: Islam: What the West Needs to Know Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a 2006 documentary film produced by Quixotic Media. It features discussions using passages from religious texts and includes commentaries by Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bat Ye'or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and Walid Shoebat. The film premiered at the American Film Renaissance Festival in Hollywood on January 15, 2006, and had a limited theatrical release in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta in summer 2006. While some reviewers have had a positive reception to the film, others have criticised the film as being inaccurate, simplistic, biased and propagandist against

title: Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary

text: and prisons, in hospitals and nursing homes, in studios and social centers, in retreat houses and retirement homes. Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary are administrators, teachers, social workers, artists, lawyers, health care personnel, musicians, librarians, spiritual directors, and others. The community is not to be confused with the Religious of the Sacred Heart, another name for the Society of the Sacred Heart, who use the abbreviation RSCJ. The rule of life of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, the RSHM Constitutions, was approved on the diocesan level in 1850, the canonical level in 1880 and revised

title: Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

text: Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart The Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is a cathedral church and a Minor Basilica located in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Along with the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling it is the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. The parish complex is a contributing property in the Downtown Charleston Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The first Catholic priest to visit what is now West Virginia came in 1832. In 1836, the Rev. Alexander L. Hitzelberger of Norfolk, Virginia visited relatives in Charleston and

title: The Sacred Art of Stealing

text: that Zal is playing her, even though she does not want to contemplate what that might imply about his real feelings for her. The Sacred Art of Stealing The Sacred Art of Stealing is a satirical crime novel by the Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre. It is the author's seventh book and is a stand-alone sequel to "A Big Boy did it and Ran Away". The book is a tale of the unusual romance between likable thief, half Scottish half Mexican, Zal Innez and D.I. Angelique de Xavia, the police officer whose job it is to catch him. Martial arts expert

title: Congregation of Retreat of the Sacred Heart

text: Congregation of Retreat of the Sacred Heart The Congregation of Retreat of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic congregation founded in 1678 under the name of the Institute of Retreat, at Quimper, in Brittany, by Mademoiselle Claude-Thérèse de Kerméno under the direction of the Jesuit Father Huby. The holy foundress having made a retreat in a convent which accommodated ladies who desired to retire from the world and follow the exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, conceived the idea of founding a similar convent at Quimper. Later the sisters took the name of the Dames de la retraite. During

title: Volume of Sacred Law

text: Volume of Sacred Law Volume of Sacred Law (VSL) (also known as the Book of the Law) is the Masonic term for whatever religious or philosophical texts are displayed during a Lodge meeting. In English-speaking countries, this is most often the King James Version of the Bible or another standard translation of the Bible. If a Lodge has non-Christian members, other texts may be used, and in Lodges with a membership of mixed religions it is common to find more than one sacred text displayed. Every candidate is given his choice of religious text for his Obligation according to his

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: pairs of lovers and friends, plus thirty single mercenaries. These original pairs of Stepsons followed the social model of the Sacred Band of Thebes, and so did other pairs recruited subsequently. Edgeworth says of Tempus's Sacred Band: He commands a group known as the "Sacred Band," warriors who pair off for life, obviously inspired by the similar Sacred Band of Thebes {...} Homosexual relations were not unknown in either group ("High Moon" 223, 242). The Band was founded by Abarsis, a priest from the North ("A Man and his God" 571, 589 in "Shadows of Sanctuary" [1981]), whose name differs

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: names without preserving the Hebraic forms, often preferring local names for the creator or highest deity, conceptualizing accuracy as semantic rather than phonetic. The limited number and popularity of Sacred Name Bible translations suggests that phonetic accuracy is not considered to be of major importance by Bible translators or the public. The translator Joseph Bryant Rotherham lamented not making his work into a Sacred Name Bible by using the more accurate name Yahweh in his translation (pp. 20 – 26), though he also said, "I trust that in a popular version like the present my choice will be understood even

title: Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

text: Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is a private, Roman Catholic, all-girls middle school and high school in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The school is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart schools and is part of the global Network of Sacred Heart Schools. Forest Ridge educates girls in grades 5 through 12. Forest Ridge was established in Seattle in 1907 as the Convent of the Sacred Heart- Forest Ridge by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. The informal name was Forest Ridge Convent or FRC. The school relocated to Somerset

title: The Regis School of the Sacred Heart

text: Schools. The original Goals and Criteria published in 1975 were adapted and redefined in 2005 to reflect more accurately the challenges facing the schools. The school has five foundational principles on what a Sacred Heart school should be. The Regis School teaches according to these goals and criteria: The Regis School is an independent Catholic School where boys become scholars and gentlemen in the Sacred Heart tradition. Regis commits itself to educate to: a personal and active faith in God, a deep respect for intellectual values, a social awareness which impels to action, the building of community as a Christian

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: Feast days. During the Feast of Tabernacles, people come from different states and other countries to observe the feast. The Sacred Name Movement consists of several small and contrasting groups (such as Yahweh's Assembly in Messiah, and Yahweh's Assembly in Yahshua, etc), unified by the use of the name Yahweh and for the most part, a Hebraic-based form Yahshua for the name of God's Son. Angelo Traina, a disciple of Dodd, undertook the translation of a Sacred Name edition of the Bible, publishing the "Holy Name New Testament" in 1950 (see Tetragrammaton in the New Testament) and the "Holy Name

title: Criticism of Mormon sacred texts

text: Pearl of Great Price. However, it has not canonized the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible in its entirety. Several critics and linguists have noted areas where the translation appears to have been faulty. The entire translation is, however, used by the Community of Christ. Criticism of Mormon sacred texts The Latter Day Saints (full name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) believe that the Book of Mormon is a sacred text with the same divine authority as the Bible. Latter Day Saints also recognize the Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants as scripture. Religious

title: Teocalli of the Sacred War

text: Teocalli of the Sacred War The Teocalli of the Sacred War ("teocalli" is Nahuatl for "temple;" Spanish: "El Teocalli de la Guerra Sagrada") is the name given by archaeologist Alfonso Caso to a monolithic pre-Columbian miniature of an Aztec temple, thought by some to have served as a throne for Motecuhzoma II. The sculpture was first discovered in 1831 in the foundations of the National Palace of Mexico, but was not removed until the 1920s. It is now located in the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City. Generally speaking, the Teocalli is representative in form of Late Post-classic temple architecture

title: Legend of the Sacred Stone

text: Legend of the Sacred Stone Legend of the Sacred Stone is a 2000 Taiwanese puppetry feature film written and directed by Chris Huang, a spin-off from the glove puppetry "wuxia" television series "Pili". It reflects the traditional Taiwanese style of glove puppetry known there as "budaixi", supplemented by computer-generated imagery. Throughout the storyline within this movie film, 400 years within the past is where it is meant to be taking place. The story begins when a man by the name of Mo Kuei threatens the people to the extent that he will destroy all of Wulin, which had been the

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: duplicate our own. Paired Sacred Banders such as Critias and Straton have historical counterparts in ancient Greece; the witch who stalks Nikodemos through many novels and stories is called Roxane, who shares that name with the wife of Alexander the Great of Macedon. Many other parallels exist, along with a wealth of detail evoking our classical world. And yet, as Edgeworth points out, knowledge of the ancient world and its history is not necessary to understand the stories, which can be read purely as fantasy. The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a multinational force, and eventually includes twenty-three couples from

title: Legend of the Sacred Stone

text: advertise a "129-minute" running time, but this includes the special features. Legend of the Sacred Stone Legend of the Sacred Stone is a 2000 Taiwanese puppetry feature film written and directed by Chris Huang, a spin-off from the glove puppetry "wuxia" television series "Pili". It reflects the traditional Taiwanese style of glove puppetry known there as "budaixi", supplemented by computer-generated imagery. Throughout the storyline within this movie film, 400 years within the past is where it is meant to be taking place. The story begins when a man by the name of Mo Kuei threatens the people to the extent

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: as the Seventh-day Sabbath, Torah festivals, and kashrut food laws. The Sacred Name Movement arose in the early 20th century out of the Church of God (Seventh Day) movement. This movement was influenced by Joseph Franklin Rutherford who changed the name of the main branch of the Bible Student movement to "Jehovah's Witnesses" in 1931, based on his belief in the importance of the Hebrew name of God. C. O. Dodd, a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day), began keeping the Jewish festivals (including Passover) in 1928, adopting sacred name doctrines in the late 1930s. The Assembly of

title: Sacred

text: are against places of worldly amusement, mixed swimming, smoking, minced oaths, as well as the eschewing of television and radio. Among the names of God in the Qur'an is القدوس ("Al-Quddus") : found in and , the closest English translation is "holy" or "sacred". It shares the same triliteral Semitic root as the Hebrew "kodesh" (see below). Another use of the same root is found in the Arabic name for Jerusalem: "al-Quds", "the Holy". The word حرام "(ħarām)", often translated as "prohibited" or "forbidden", is better understood as "sacred" or "sanctuary" in the context of places considered sacred in Islam,

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: a Semitic language, not clearly differentiating between Syriac and Aramaic. However, despite his adherence to a Semitic original of the New Testament, Lamsa translated using the English word "Lord" instead of a Hebraic form of the divine name. Sacred Name Bibles are not used frequently within Christianity, or Judaism. Only a few translations replace "Jesus" with Semitic forms such as "Yeshua" or "Yahshua". Most English Bible translations translate the tetragrammaton with "" where it occurs in the Old Testament rather than use a transliteration into English. This pattern is followed in languages around the world, as translators have translated sacred

title: Criticism of Mormon sacred texts

text: Criticism of Mormon sacred texts The Latter Day Saints (full name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) believe that the Book of Mormon is a sacred text with the same divine authority as the Bible. Latter Day Saints also recognize the Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants as scripture. Religious and scholarly critics outside the Latter Day Saint religion have disputed this view, questioning the traditional narrative of how these books came to light, and the extent to which they describe actual events. They cite research in history, archeology, and other disciplines to support their

title: The Name of the Rose

text: known as Bernard of Morlaix). Medieval manuscripts of this line are not in agreement: Eco quotes one Medieval variant verbatim, but Eco was not aware at the time of the text more commonly printed in modern editions, in which the reference is to Rome ("Roma"), not to a rose ("rosa"). The alternative text, with its context, runs: "Nunc ubi Regulus aut ubi Romulus aut ubi Remus? / Stat Roma pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus". This translates as "Where now is Regulus, or Romulus, or Remus? / Primordial Rome abides only in its name; we hold only naked names." Also the

title: The Name of the Rose

text: only the name. In this novel, the lost "rose" could be seen as Aristotle's book on comedy (now forever lost), the exquisite library now destroyed, or the beautiful peasant girl now dead. The title is also an allusion to the nominalist position in the problem of universals, taken by William of Ockham. According to nominalism, universals are bare names: there is not a universal rose, only the name "rose". This text has also been translated as "Yesterday's rose stands only in name, we hold only empty names." This line is a verse by twelfth century monk Bernard of Cluny (also

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: is largely passive, whereas the person who engages with a writerly text has to make an active effort, and even to re-enact the actions of the writer himself. The different codes (hermeneutic, action, symbolic, semic, and historical) that Barthes defines in "S/Z" inform and reinforce one another, making for an open text that is indeterminant precisely because it can always be written anew. As a consequence, although one may experience pleasure in the readerly text, it is when one sees the text from the writerly point of view that the experience is blissful. Few writers in cultural studies and the

text: convent at Clapham Park was founded from Angers. In 1882, a convent was opened at Burnham, in Somersetshire, from Quimper, and after the union of Quimper and Angers (1897), another convent was opened at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and in 1904, one at Clevedon. In 1898, a house at Mentone was opened, and in 1899 a large educational establishment at Brussels. The institute and its constitutions were approved definitively by the Holy See in 1910. Congregation of Retreat of the Sacred Heart The Congregation of Retreat of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic congregation founded in 1678 under the name of

title: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

text: window of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Congregation becomes an Archconfraternity. At the end of the 19th century, this devotion spreads throughout America and Europe, so the Vatican decides to make changes in the image, and begins the representation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus while still a child and in the arms of his mother, while Mary shows the heart of his son. Remember, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, what ineffable power thy divine Son hath given thee over His own adorable Heart. Full of trust in thy merits, we come before thee and beg

title: Religious text

text: The terms 'sacred' text and 'religious' text are not necessarily interchangeable in that some religious texts are believed to be sacred because of their nature as divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired, whereas some religious texts are simply narratives pertaining to the general themes, practices, or important figures of the specific religion, and not necessarily considered sacred by itself. A core function of a religious text making it sacred is its ceremonial and liturgical role, particularly in relation to sacred time, the liturgical year, the divine efficacy and subsequent holy service; in a more general sense, its performance. It is

text: informed by God that his essay would be the most overpowering one. He stated: It was originally published in "The report of the Conference of Great Religions" and was later published in book form as "Islami Usool Ki Falāsifi". It was subsequently translated into English. It has seen many editions and has been translated into French, Dutch, German, Spanish and various other languages. Writings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam | Amazon.com The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam is an essay on Islam by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder

title: Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Texas)

text: the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, with 58 high-school pupils. The school is named after Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, the first member of the Society of the Sacred Heart to come to America. The school is part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. The campus was built around a large oak tree, in the center of its campus. It became a symbol for the school because the name "Duchesne" is French for "of the oak". The oak tree also represents a notable tradition at Duchesne, graduation. As each senior is called up to receive her diploma, she passes under

title: What Is the What

text: What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as "murahaleen" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight

title: Sacred Name Bible

text: by those who may be slow to pardon it." (p. xxi). These Bibles systematically transliterate the tetragrammaton (usually as "Yahweh") in both the Old and New Testaments, as well as a Semitic form of the name of Jesus such as Yahshua or Yeshua. They consider the names of both God the Father, and God the Son, to be sacred. These Sacred Name Bibles use the tetragrammaton without vowels. They follow this practice in both the Old and New Testaments (though some translations are not complete). Some translations use a form of "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" only sporadically: A few translations use

title: What Is the What

text: That Happens Will Happen Today". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when

title: Islam: The Straight Path

text: Muslim fundamental tenets of belief and practices are also discussed as is the development of Islamic theology, law and Sufism. Esposito wrote this book after he observed that most books on Islam gave less attention to the modern period than to the pre-modern Islam. Thus, "Islam: The Straight Path" devotes half its content (the last three chapters) to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times. In addition to the main text of the book, a full auxiliary information is also provided by notes, a select bibliography, a glossary of largely Arabic terminology and a comprehensive index. The book

title: Invading the Sacred

text: lead to a longterm process impacting the study of Hinduism in the USA," and notes that the real debate should not be a political debate, but a debate on the one-sidedness of text-based Indological studies. Invading the Sacred Invading The Sacred: An Analysis Of Hinduism Studies In America is a critical work published in 2007 by Rupa & Co. which argues that there are factual inaccuracies in Hindu studies. The editors of the book are Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas, and Aditi Banerjee. The book has contributions from Arvind Sharma of McGill University, S. N. Balagangadhara of Ghent University, psychoanalyst

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: The Pleasure of the Text The Pleasure of the Text () is a 1973 book by Roland Barthes. "The Pleasure of the Text" was written in French and later translated into English. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about literary theory. He divides the effects of texts into two: "plaisir" ("pleasure") and "jouissance", translated as "bliss" but the French word also carries the meaning of "orgasm". The distinction corresponds to a further distinction Barthes makes between "texte lisible" and "texte scriptible", translated respectively as "readerly" and "writerly" texts (a more literal translation would be "readable" and "writable"). "Scriptible" is

title: Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor

text: reign, the Yongzheng Emperor issued the "Shengyu guangxun" (聖諭廣訓 Amplified instructions on the Sacred Edict) in 10,000 characters. Evidently worried that the seven character lines of his father’s maxims could not be understood by local people, the Yongzheng Emperor's "Amplified Instructions" explains "Our text attempts to be clear and precise; our words, for the most part, are direct and simple." The prose is relatively easy to understand for those with a beginning understanding of the literary language. The "Amplified Instructions" was also published in a Manchu translation and then in a combined Chinese, Manchu, Mongol version. The village lecturer might

title: Here Is What Is

text: some of the tracks ("Beauty" and "Chest of Drawers") are conversations with Brian Eno. All songs written by Daniel Lanois unless otherwise noted. "Where Will I Be" is a new version of a song which had been previously released on Emmylou Harris' album "Wrecking Ball" in 1995. "Lovechild" and "Sacred And Secular" tracks incorporates, respectively, the pedal steel guitar melody used in "Carla", on Belladonna album, and the pedal steel guitar melody used in "Transmitter", on Shine album. Here Is What Is Here Is What Is is the fifth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It

title: The Joy of Text

text: The Joy of Text The Joy of Text was a themed night of television programmes centred on text messaging, shown on BBC One. It was broadcast on 9 June 2001, and featured three TV programmes: "The Joy of Text: Live", "Text Maniacs" and "X Text". The first programme, "The Joy of Text: Live", was a 40-minute entertainment variety show hosted by Ulrika Jonsson and Terry Alderton, featuring celebrity guests and text-related games. This was followed by "Text Maniacs", a documentary looking at surprising examples of text messaging use. "X Text", the final programme, looked at the seedier side of texting.

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: a neologism in French. The pleasure of the text corresponds to the readerly text, which does not challenge the reader's position as a subject. The writerly text provides bliss, which explodes literary codes and allows the reader to break out of his or her subject position. The "readerly" and the "writerly" texts were identified and explained in Barthes' "S/Z". Barthes argues that "writerly" texts are more important than "readerly" ones because he sees the text's unity as forever being re-established by its composition, the codes that form and constantly slide around within the text. The reader of a readerly text

title: Academy of the Sacred Heart (Grand Coteau, Louisiana)

text: the Academy of the Sacred Heart and Berchmans Academy. The new name is Schools of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau. In 2006, Headmistress Mary Burns announced her retirement at the conclusion of the 2006-2007 school year. She was temporarily succeeded by Sister Claude DeMoustier, who was then succeeded by Sister Lynne Lieux in 2008. In 2016, Dr. Yvonne Sandoz Adler, Ph.D. became the new Head of School. Academy of the Sacred Heart (Grand Coteau, Louisiana) The Academy of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1821 in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, is an independent, Catholic school for girls in Pre-Kindergarten-3 through grade twelve,

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: rejecting the established conventions of literature including the form, function and style of the novel as it came to be understood from the 19th through the earlier half of the 20th century. The Pleasure of the Text The Pleasure of the Text () is a 1973 book by Roland Barthes. "The Pleasure of the Text" was written in French and later translated into English. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about literary theory. He divides the effects of texts into two: "plaisir" ("pleasure") and "jouissance", translated as "bliss" but the French word also carries the meaning of "orgasm". The

title: The Knight of the Sacred Lake

text: love. A bleak shadow falls again across Camelot—and across the sacred isle of Avalon, where Roman priests threaten the life of the Lady herself. At the center of the storm is Guenevere, torn between her love for her husband, her people, and Sir Lancelot of the Lake. Arthurian Legend - Publishers Weekly The Knight of the Sacred Lake The Knight of the Sacred Lake is a 2001 historical fantasy novel by Rosalind Miles. It was published in 2001 by Three Rivers Press in paperback. The book is a retelling of the Arthurian legend and follows the lives of Queen Guinevere,

title: Women in Islam

text: Women in Islam The experiences of Muslim women ( "Muslimāt", singular مسلمة "Muslima") vary widely between and within different societies. At the same time, their adherence to Islam is a shared factor that affects their lives to a varying degree and gives them a common identity that may serve to bridge the wide cultural, social, and economic differences between them. Among the influences which have played an important role in defining the social, spiritual and cosmological status of women in the course of Islamic history are Islam's sacred text, the Qur'an; the Ḥadīths, which are traditions relating to the deeds

title: Society of the Sacred Heart

text: Society of the Sacred Heart The Society of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is an international Roman Catholic religious congregation for women established in France by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. Members use the suffix "RSCJ" which represents "Religieuses du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus" or "Religiosa Sanctissimi Cordis Jesu" or "Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". It has a presence in 41 countries. They should not be confused with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM), another teaching order of sisters. Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in

title: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

text: charge. Ultimately, these vows are lived out within a community and bolstered by a relationship with God. Consequently: Becoming a Missionary of the Sacred Heart doesn’t happen over night. Plenty of time and help is given to preparing us for a way of life that is certainly not ordinary! People interested in exploring if this way is for them usually journey with us for a time of Accompaniment. This is an opportunity to carefully and prayerfully get more of a sense of what we are about and come to know yourself better. If a person decides to join us he

title: Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

text: spread the Gospel, build churches, and evangelize new faithful. The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary was particularly successful in the Kingdom of Hawaii. They established what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu and built the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. Hawaii's first six bishops, from 1833 to 1940, were members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Other churches founded by the institute include Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Hilo and Maria Lanakila Catholic Church on Maui.

title: Fame Is the Name of the Game

text: erroneously billed "Fame is the Name of the Game" as television's first "world premiere" of a "major motion picture". The film garnered phenomenal ratings leading to the spin-off series. "Chicago Deadline" (1949) Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) is an American TV-movie that aired on NBC and served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series "The Name of the Game". It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was produced by Ranald MacDougall, who also wrote the teleplay, from the novel "One Woman" by Tiffany Thayer. The film stars Anthony Franciosa

title: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

text: its severe shortcomings. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam Jihad The Trail of Political Islam (French: "Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l"Islamisme") is a book by French author and scholar Gilles Kepel. It was originally published in French in 2000 by Gallimard, with English translations by Anthony F. Roberts from Belknap Press in 2002 and I.B. Tauris in 2006. The book provides a detailed examination of the expansion and decline of what he terms the doomed extremist ideology of the Jihadist movement since the 1960s. The author explains the attraction of Islamism to humiliated and faltering segments of the Muslim

title: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

text: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam Jihad The Trail of Political Islam (French: "Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l"Islamisme") is a book by French author and scholar Gilles Kepel. It was originally published in French in 2000 by Gallimard, with English translations by Anthony F. Roberts from Belknap Press in 2002 and I.B. Tauris in 2006. The book provides a detailed examination of the expansion and decline of what he terms the doomed extremist ideology of the Jihadist movement since the 1960s. The author explains the attraction of Islamism to humiliated and faltering segments of the Muslim population and outlines

title: The Joy of Text

text: BBC ultimately received more than 500,000 texts over the course of the evening, breaking a record and becoming the biggest ever mass text exercise. A selection of the received text messages were compiled into an accompanying tie-in book, also titled "The Joy of Text". The book was edited by Doug Young, who had previously edited the compilation book "100 Recipes in No Time At All". "The Joy of Text" was published by Transworld Publishers, and was released on 1 July 2001. The Joy of Text The Joy of Text was a themed night of television programmes centred on text messaging,

title: Feast of the Sacred Heart

text: Feast of the Sacred Heart The Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Latin: "Sollemnitas Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu") is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. It falls 19 days after Pentecost, on a Friday. The earliest possible date is May 29, as in 1818 and 2285. The latest possible date is July 2, as in 1943 and 2038. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is one of the most widely practiced and well-known Roman Catholic devotions, taking Jesus Christ's physical heart as the representation of his divine love for humanity. Devotion to the Sacred

title: Name resolution (semantics and text extraction)

text: sometimes referred to as name disambiguation and, for digital libraries, author disambiguation. For examples of software that might provide name resolution benefits, see also: Name resolution (semantics and text extraction) In semantics and text extraction, name resolution refers to the ability of text mining software to determine which actual person, actor, or object a particular use of a name refers to. It can also be referred to as entity resolution. For example, in the text mining field, software frequently needs to interpret the following text: John gave Edward the book. He then stood up and called to John to come

title: Sacred Name Movement

text: Yahweh was the first religious organization in the Sacred Name Movement. It was formed in Holt, Michigan, in the 1930s. The Assembly of Yahweh believes the name of the Almighty Yahweh should be used along with his son's name, Yahshua. They keep the seventh day Sabbath (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) along with all the scriptural feast days. They believe the Torah (law) was not done away with. They believe Yahshua is the son of Yahweh and that his life, death, burial, and resurrection give us salvation. They believe after a person repents of sin, they should be baptized in

title: Society of the Sacred Heart

text: NGO status at the UN as a special consultant with the Economic and Social Council. Society of the Sacred Heart The Society of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is an international Roman Catholic religious congregation for women established in France by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. Members use the suffix "RSCJ" which represents "Religieuses du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus" or "Religiosa Sanctissimi Cordis Jesu" or "Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". It has a presence in 41 countries. They should not be confused with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM), another

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: The Sacred Band of Stepsons The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by Janet Morris and based on the historical Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite strike force of paired lovers and friends that flourished during the fourth century BC in ancient Greece, where sexuality was a behavior, not an identity. The Sacred Band of Stepsons series of fantasy novels and stories take place in a myth-like milieu that mixes historical places such as Nisibis, Mygdonia and Chaeronea; warriors such as Theagenes (commander of the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea); gods such as Enlil, Maat

title: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

text: vinyl edition – this track has been included on the subsequent CD release. The title of the album is a reference both to the group's preference for having no expressed definite article within the band name (as opposed to "The Talking Heads") and to David Byrne's minimalist introductions to songs. The album opens with one such introduction: "The name of this song is "New Feeling". That's what it's about." An expanded version of the record, on CD in the United States for the first time, was released in 2004 by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino. It duplicated the pattern of the original with

title: Fame Is the Name of the Game

text: Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) is an American TV-movie that aired on NBC and served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series "The Name of the Game". It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was produced by Ranald MacDougall, who also wrote the teleplay, from the novel "One Woman" by Tiffany Thayer. The film stars Anthony Franciosa as investigative journalist Jeff Dillon. It also presents the screen debut of 20-year-old Susan Saint James as Peggy Chan, Dillon's new editorial assistant. (In the series, St. James's character is renamed Peggy

title: Scapular of the Sacred Heart

text: Our Lady reveals the devotion of the Sacred Heart Scapular". While the use of the Scapular is authorised by the Holy See, the Archbishops of Bourges have never officially commented on the status of Estelle Faguette's reputed visions, although her cure has been formally recognised as a miracle. Scapular of the Sacred Heart The Scapular of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic devotional scapular bearing an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the front panel, and an image of the Virgin Mary as Mother of Mercy on the panel which hangs at the wearer's back. In its

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: Band" (2010) "A fantasy series about the Sacred Band of Stepsons, an elite army modeled on the fourth-century B.C.E. Sacred Band of Thebes. The stories explore the fraught personal relationships of mixed hetero- and homosexual troops, only sometimes paired, as they fight for their commander, the immortal Tempus. Morris includes archaeological and historical details, from physical items to social practices, religion, and philosophy, to create a fantasy world that is, in many ways, more historically accurate than many popular accounts of antiquity." The Sacred Band of Stepsons The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by

title: Brothers of the Sacred Heart

text: subsequently left the Institute. Africa and South America remain the two regions where vocations to the Institute are at their highest. The Congregation holds that its founder, Andre Coindre, preached and acted upon the spirit of compassion that Jesus Christ exemplified through his own life. By responding to the abandoned youth in the city of Lyon, Coindre gave of himself, of his own heart. The Brothers of the Sacred Heart are called to respond just as did Coindre, just as Jesus did. This spirit of compassion is what motivates the Brothers today. As of 2010, there are some 1,200 Brothers

title: Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Bitola

text: in 1870, but destroyed by fire in 1900. The present church dates from 1909 and is neo-Gothic style. The church tower was built between 1938 and 1940. Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Bitola The Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart () It is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic church that is located in the city of Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia and is the co-cathedral of the Diocese of Skopje. The establishment of the church dates back to the nineteenth century, by the Vincentians, who set out to spread the Catholic faith among the Orthodox

title: Church of the Sacred Heart (Bronx, New York)

text: Church of the Sacred Heart (Bronx, New York) The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 1253 Shakespeare Avenue (West 168 Street), Bronx, New York City 10452. The church building was designed by architect Elliott Lynch, who designed several other Catholic churches and parish schools. The church is connected with a school of the same name. The "New York Times" reported in 1910: "New Bronx Church: Plans were filed for a new brick church and rectory to replace the present frame edifices of the Sacred Heart

text: Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Bitola The Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart () It is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic church that is located in the city of Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia and is the co-cathedral of the Diocese of Skopje. The establishment of the church dates back to the nineteenth century, by the Vincentians, who set out to spread the Catholic faith among the Orthodox population of the Ottoman Empire. The founder of the Church was Juan Jose Lepavek, who in 1857 bought a hotel from which to develop future church, completed

title: Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

text: in Finglas in North Dublin. Later they moved to Avoca Avenue Blackrock before being invited by the Archbishop of Dublin to move to what is now St. Raphaela's School in Stillorgan 1971. In 1926, the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came to Philadelphia from Rome at the invitation of Cardinal Dennis Dougherty. The Sisters opened a small chapel on 34th Street, near the University of Pennsylvania and began to teach classes in business skills, languages and the arts. These classes were well attended both by the women students at the University and by working women. In 1947 the

title: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

text: a spirit of love for justice and concern for the welfare of all, specially the poorest ones. For the Congregation the motto ‘May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved’ goes beyond placing statues of the Sacred Heart in churches, First Friday devotions and novenas, important as they are. It means believing that Christ’s love for His people is empowering, healing, all-embracing, liberating and challenging. In practical terms, this means that the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart: This means that the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are engaged in a variety of ministries as they respond to the "signs

title: The Joy of Text

text: presenter Ulrika Jonsson and comedian Terry Alderton. Jonsson and Alderton introduced the rest of the night's programmes, and invited viewers to text their favourite jokes into the show. This was followed at 8:15 p.m. by "The Joy of Text: Live", a live, interactive entertainment programme. It was also hosted by Jonsson and Alderton, and ran for 40 minutes. After beginning with archive footage of mobile phone use during the 1980s, "The Joy of Text: Live" featured segments such as a man proposing by text to his girlfriend (who responded with "Yes I love you"), celebrity guest text messaging with pop

title: Legend of the Sacred Stone

text: secret love of Su Huan-Jen. In the end however, Ru-Bing sadly sacrifices her life to the Sacred Stone so that her father can become restored. This is because the Sacred Stone requires an equal sacrifice to attain a greater goal. Lord Jian: The primary villain within the Legend of the Sacred Stone, and father of Ru-Bing. Jian had at one time been noted as a kind man of noble descent, even to the extent that he was known as the "Great Protector". Later however, his younger brother would find a certain artifact known as the Sacred Stone, which caused many

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: by only one letter from Abaris, a priest from the North said by Herodotus (Book IV) to have visited Greece. In Tempus's Band, heterosexual Stepsons and Sacred Band pairs fight side by side. There is no requirement to be part of a couple to serve among the Stepsons, and single mercenaries initially outnumbered the Sacred Band pairs. The Stepsons are principally a cavalry (hippeis) squadron, not heavy infantry (hoplites) as the Theban Sacred Banders primarily were. While the three-hundred-strong Theban Sacred Band was constituted by Theban law-givers and maintained by the Theban state (according to Plutarch's "Life" of Pelopidas), the

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: resulted from a process that the artist calls "distributed authorship," which expands Barthes' concept of the "readerly text." In Ascott's work, the text itself is the result of a collaborative reading/writing process among participants around the world, connected via computer networking (telematics). Ascott's work thus unravels the distinction between readers and writers, demonstrating a much greater degree of permeability than Barthes' distinction permits (and beyond Barthes' theory of the death of the author). Moreover, the mechanism of distributed authorship enabled Ascott's "planetary fairytale" to self-pleat in a way that, like a surrealist exquisite corpse, could not have been the product

title: The Pleasure of the Text

text: social sciences have used and developed the distinctions that Barthes makes. The British sociologist of education Stephen Ball has argued that the National Curriculum in England and Wales is a writerly text, by which he means that schools, teachers and pupils have a certain amount of scope to reinterpret and develop it. On the other hand, artist Roy Ascott's pioneering telematic artwork, "La Plissure du Texte" ("The Pleating of the Texte", 1983) drew inspiration from Barthes' "La Plaisir du Texte." Ascott modified the title to emphasize the pleasure of collective textual pleating. In Ascott's artwork, the pleating of the text

title: Every Sperm Is Sacred

text: the Protestant married couple with Palin playing the Protestant husband. The very phrase "every sperm is sacred" has become almost proverbial in the field of animal and human sexuality and reproduction. This extends to such areas as cloning, where the song is used to criticize anti-cloning activists who argue that every embryo or fertilized egg is sacred. Pro-choice activists have sung the song outside abortion clinics to ridicule their opponents, legal scholars have alluded to it in discussions of women's reproductive rights, and it is used generally to do what has been described as "[exposing] the absurdity of the anti-choice

title: Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart

text: Motherhouse in 1925. After a generation, however, differences in vision began to emerge between the English and French Sisters. Under the advice of Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, in 1902 the majority of the Sisters in England elected to separate from the Servants of the Sacred Heart and to form a new congregation. They took the name of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The Congregation today has several convents throughout France, such as in Argenteuil, Gennevilliers and Beaucaire. Additionally they serve in two nursing homes in the Department of Aveyron. They have a retreat house in Saint-Gervais.

text: Name resolution (semantics and text extraction) In semantics and text extraction, name resolution refers to the ability of text mining software to determine which actual person, actor, or object a particular use of a name refers to. It can also be referred to as entity resolution. For example, in the text mining field, software frequently needs to interpret the following text: John gave Edward the book. He then stood up and called to John to come back into the room. In these sentences, the software must determine whether the pronoun "he" refers to "John", or "Edward" from the first sentence.

title: Sacred Sun

text: Sacred Sun Sacred Sun (Mohongo) (1809 – 1836) was an Osage woman who lived on Osage land in what is now Missouri, US. She took a journey all throughout Europe, and tales of her trip were recorded in French and American newspapers and pamphlets of that age. After returning to the United States, her portrait was painted and hung up for display in Washington D.C. to show off her skills and determination. Sacred Sun was born in 1809 in what is now Saline County along the Missouri River in Missouri. Her Osage name was Mi-Ho’n-Ga. As a baby, Sacred Sun

title: Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

text: She died in Rome, on the 6th of January, 1925. Rafaela Maria Porras y Ayllon was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1952 and canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI. She is known as Saint Raphaela Mary of the Sacred Heart. The Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus are one of many religious communities that share "a historical connection to the spirituality of the Sacred Heart". Common elements among the Sacred Heart religious communities are: the influence of the French school of spirituality, Ignatian roots, a missionary dimension, devotion to the Eucharist, and Internationality/Multiculturalism. The Congregation, given the

title: The Sacred Band of Stepsons

text: the Sacred Band of Thebes who fought at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. Like the historic Sacred Band of Thebes (378-338 BC), the Stepsons serve as an elite strike force. Unlike today's prevailing vision of the Theban Sacred Band, the Stepsons mix pairs and individual war-fighters in a single unit. Both Sacred Bands adhere to the ancient military model of the Sacred Bands, special units who prize honor above all and die in battle rather than desert their partners, lovers or beloveds. The Sacred Band of Stepsons was developed by their fictional commander, Tempus, from an original ten

title: Shrine of the Sacred Heart

text: Heart's priests still minister to the school spiritually. The Sacred Heart School continues to receive praise and honors, even as several of these Consortium schools continue to be threatened. It is one a very few United States Catholic parish schools operating with a bilingual curriculum. Shrine of the Sacred Heart The Shrine of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish established in 1899 in the Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C.. The parish church is a large domed Byzantine structure modeled after the Cathedral in Ravenna, Italy. The current church is actually the second that the Shrine of

title: The Knight of the Sacred Lake

text: The Knight of the Sacred Lake The Knight of the Sacred Lake is a 2001 historical fantasy novel by Rosalind Miles. It was published in 2001 by Three Rivers Press in paperback. The book is a retelling of the Arthurian legend and follows the lives of Queen Guinevere, consort of King Arthur and her struggles with the king's nephews Agravain and Gawain; the queen is torn between her love for her husband, her land, and her lover, Lancelot. The book was part of a series, "The Guinevere Novels", and was followed by "The Child of the Holy Grail". Reviewing the

title: The Sacred Armour of Antiriad

text: The Sacred Armour of Antiriad The Sacred Armour of Antiriad is an action game published by Palace Software in September 1986 for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum. In North America, the game was published by Epyx as Rad Warrior. The original game came with a 16-page comic book created by graphic artist Daniel Malone. The game is notable for being one of the earliest examples of the Metroidvania genre, being developed without knowledge of and concurrently with "Metroid". "The Sacred Armour of Antiriad" is a mixture of platform and maze game. The player controls Tal who,

title: Shrine of the Sacred Heart

text: Shrine of the Sacred Heart The Shrine of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish established in 1899 in the Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C.. The parish church is a large domed Byzantine structure modeled after the Cathedral in Ravenna, Italy. The current church is actually the second that the Shrine of the Sacred Heart community has called home. The original red brick structure was dedicated in 1901, and the current structure in 1922. Both buildings were influenced by the City Beautiful architectural movement which overtook Washington from 1901 to 1910. The parish was originally part of

title: What Is the What

text: writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees

title: Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart

text: Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart ("Woodlands", "WA", or "WASH") is a private, Roman Catholic girls' high school in Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago. Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart, it is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago but is run by lay staff with several Sisters sitting on the Board of Trustees. The Convent of the Sacred Heart was established in 1858 by Mother Margaret Crawley RSCJ. In 1860 it moved to its new premises in Taylor Street and was renamed Academy of the Sacred Heart. In 1904,