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Allen S. Maller

Jun 11, 2025, 10:44 PM

Qur’an, Torah, Exoplanets, and God’s Intelligent Lifeforms

When Fermi posed his famous question, "where are they" we hadn't identified a single planet beyond our solar system. The 1995 discovery of the first exoplanet allowed scientists to break the guestion into smaller, more solvable questions: How many stars are...

Jun 9, 2025, 5:53 PM

Preserving the Past: The Sarajevo Haggadah and its Jewish Legacy

Nestled in the heart of Sarajevo, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina houses one of the most extraordinary treasures of Jewish heritage—the Sarajevo Haggadah. This illuminated manuscript, a masterpiece of medieval Jewish art, has survived centuries of tumult,...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 9, 2025, 3:19 AM

Resisting Yajuj and Majuj with more Hope, Faith and Salah

The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little, more ocean warming, above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years according to...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 8, 2025, 2:33 PM

An Arabian Fossil Points to Makkah and Jerusalem

A fossil of a human finger bone found in Saudi Arabia, was recently dated to 88,000 years ago. If confirmed, the finding would be the first and earliest Homo sapiens fossil found on the Arabian Peninsula. Along with recent finds...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 3, 2025, 3:54 PM

Tawhid says Allah’s Universe Produces Life Everywhere

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The US is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. During Medieval times, Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth-centered Greek...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 1, 2025, 4:30 PM

Jews and Muslims need to Understand Each Other’s Religions Better

Jews know about our God from the Torah; He is jealous, He is El Kana, namely, that he doesn’t tolerate other gods. “No, you must tear down their (idol worshippers) altars, smash their pillars, and cut down their sacred posts;...

Allen S. Maller

May 31, 2025, 12:23 PM

Islam’s Tahrif and Rabbi Artson’s ‘Evolving Torah from an Evolving God’

One of the most complex, controversial and misunderstood concepts among the three Abrahamic religions is the Qur’an’s misunderstanding of Tahrif. The term Tahrif does not occur in the Qur’an, but there are four Qur’an verses claiming that Jews and...

Allen S. Maller

May 30, 2025, 12:46 PM

Salah: Sharing Biblical and Muslim Hajj Pilgrimages

Are the Hajj to the Ka’ba in Makka and the Hajj to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem alternate swings of a single sacred pendulum connected to one central Divine source in the heavens? Let me explain. The Ka’ba was the...

Allen S. Maller

May 29, 2025, 4:15 PM

Tawhid and Jews in the Constitution of Medina

The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10,000+ citizens living in Medina at that time. About 45-55% of the total population in Medina consisted of pagan...

Allen S. Maller

May 28, 2025, 9:05 PM

Can Mahdi And Messiah Help Redeem Us Before…

Both Judaism and Islam teach their followers to take care of Planet earth. Muslims and Jews also believe that humans should act as guardians and trustees (stewardship and khalifah) off our planet, and that they will be held accountable by...

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