(n.) The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this examination no attempt will be made to evaluate Moses and Monotheism for its literary, psychohistorical, or scientific merit.
(2) Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”.
(3) "But it builds something you can't respond to: ethics, decency, monotheism and justice," he added in a his speech, which was broadcast live on state TV.
(4) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
(5) Focusing on the abortive subtitle, the core of the paper is a close examination of the original manuscript draft of Moses and Monotheism, completed in 1934.
(6) As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: “Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory.” In the Bible, Moses did not invent monotheism.
(7) Despite Freud's explicit statements on his intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism, there has been a growing tendency to interpret the work as a coded document of his inner life.
(8) Evidence is brough that it is his father, rather than himself, whom Freud identifies with the Moses figure - and the consequences of his identification are used to explain both his obsession with the Moses theme and his seeming digressions into Bible-analysis in "Moses and monotheism".
(9) As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism.
(10) There is a wealth of information about Freud in Moses and Monotheism and no one paper will exhaust it.
(11) Freud's paper is re-examined and placed in biographical and historical context, Moses and monotheism (1934-1938) is treated as a parallel text.
(12) Many writers have commented on the lack of Freud's usual level of logic and powers of persuasion in Moses and Monotheism.
Tawhid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is no secret that the entry of the armed opposition into the city of Aleppo was co-ordinated by al-Nusra and the al-Tawhid brigade, part of the Syrian Free Army, and that al-Nusra remains an effective fighting force.
(2) Among the signatories are Dr Usama Hasan, imam of Al-Tawhid mosque, London, Dilwar Hussain, head of the policy research centre at the Islamic Foundation, Zareen Roohi Ahmed from the British Muslim Forum and Ed Husain, co-director of the anti-extremism thinktank the Quilliam Foundation.
(3) Those leaving services at the basilica mix with worshippers from the Tawhid mosque on Rue de la Boulangerie.
(4) Though the al-Tawhid brigade is Islamist, its members are exclusively Syrian.