In 656, Caliph Uthman, the third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet, was assassinated at his home in Medina (now Saudi Arabia) by besieging Muslim rebels from Mesopotamia.

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More often seen on doors across North Africa and the Middle East, Fatima's hand is believed to ward off evil spirits and is named after the compassionate daughter of the Prophet Mohammed.

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Al-Azhar (which means the "most flourishing and resplendent" in English) was named after Fatima al-Zahraa, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.

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The Prophet himself undertook this great work, and after him his companions and his successors also took on this work (i.e. of being a judge).

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Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.

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Today marks the 63rd anniversary of when in 1951 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Moses, prophet, leader, teacher of our generation common to all, came to office a year after the passing in 1950 of his dear father-in-law.

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