The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (303 page)

and Satya
Sai Baba
, or to non-Hindus, such as Jesus or
Mu
ammad
.

 
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(Heb., ‘Merciful Father’). Memorial
prayer
for Jewish martyrs which is found in a
Prayer Book
of 1290.

 
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(Heb., ‘Mourners of Zion’). Groups of Jews dedicated to mourning the destruction of the
Temple
in Jerusalem. With the conquest of Palestine by the Seljuk Turks in 1071, they disappeared from Jerusalem.

 
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Ave Maria
.

Christian, mainly Catholic, salutation and invocation addressed to
Mary
.

 
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Averroes
(Spanish Muslim theologian)
:

see
IBN RUSHD
.

 
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Averroism
.

The views associated with Averroes (
Ibn Rushd
), which became influential in Jewish and Christian philosophy from 1230 onward. Since these attributed views included the absolute separation of God from his creation, the eternity of matter and its potentiality, and the notion of ‘double truth’, one (literal in relation to revelation) for the uneducated and the other allegorical, much of the Christian response became hostile: Averroism was condemned in 1270 and 1277, and was strongly criticized by
Aquinas
. Nevertheless, Averroist philosophers continued to defend this outlook, the most prominent being Siger of Brabant (
c.
1235–1284).

 
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