In Babylonia the school of Sura differed from that of Nehardea ; and similar differences existed in the schools of the Land of Israel as against that at Tiberias, which in later times increasingly became the chief seat of learning.

Furthermore, Sura Al-Baqara 2: 190-193 of the Koran requires that in combat Muslims are only allowed to strike back in self-defence against those who strike against them, but, on the other hand, once the enemies cease to attack, Muslims are then commanded to stop attacking.

Since the Allobrogian delegation was in Rome seeking relief from the oppression of their Roman governor, one of the Catiline conspirators, Lentulus Sura instructed Publius Umbrenus, a businessman with dealings in Gaul, to offer to free them of their miseries to throw off the heavy yoke of their governor — if they would join the Catiline conspiracy against Rome.

In Sura Al-Qamar it says " For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.

In chapter 2 ( Sura 2 ) of the Islamic Quran ( Verse 248 ), the Children of Israel, at the time of Samuel and Saul, were given back the Tabut E Sakina ( the casket of Shekhinah ) which contained remnants of the household of Musa ( Moses ) and Harun ( Aaron ) carried by angels which confirmed peace and reassurance for them from their Lord.

The religious practice is mentioned for the first time by Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, in 853 C. E., who describes it as a custom of the Babylonian Jews and further explained by Jewish scholars in the ninth century by that since the Hebrew word geber ( Gever ) means both " man " and " rooster " the rooster may act or serve as a palpable substitute as a religious vessel in place of the man with the practice also having been as a custom of the Persian Jews.

The earliest existing codification of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rav Amram Gaon of Sura, Babylon, about 850 CE.

In Yemen, however, rather than abandoning the Aramaic targum during the public reading of the Torah, it was supplemented by a third version, namely the translation of the Torah into Arabic by Saadia Gaon ( called the Tafsir, though this Gaon was born in prominently Jewish at the time Sura Iraq, Babylon, moved to Egypt, arguably lead those two communities, and died in Jaffa ancestral Israel, he was not known to have ever been to the Jewish villages of Yemen.

Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, the most influential conspirator after Catiline, had held the rank of consul in 71 BC, but he had been cast out of the senate by the censors during a political purge in the following year on the pretext of debauchery.

Simai, Ashi's father, was a rich and learned man, a student of the college of Naresh near Sura, which was directed by Rav Papa, Raba's disciple.

While still young, Rav Ashi became the head of the Sura Academy, his great learning being acknowledged by the older teachers.

The work begun by Rav Ashi was continued in the two succeeding generations and completed by Ravina II, another president of the college at Sura, who died in 499.

Sura maintained the prominence conferred on it by Rav Ashi for several centuries, and only during the last two centuries of the Gaonic period did Pumbedita again become its rival.

(" yirushalmi ") The other version by scholars of Babylonia, primarily of the academies of Sura, Pumbedita, and Mata Mehasia, which was published about 500 CE.

Gendibal demonstrates to the Speaker's Table that the brain of Sura Novi, a Hamishwoman ( the farming population of Trantor are known as the Hamish ), shows a very subtle change in her mind that could only have been done by an agency more powerful than the Second Foundation.

The transference in meaning of the term from the learning session to the institution itself appears to have occurred by the time of the great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, Sura and Pumbedita, which were known as shte ha-yeshivot, " the two colleges.

In 219 CE, the Sura Academy ( from which Jewish Kalam emerged many centuries later ) was founded by Abba Arika.

" The Qur ' an argues that the stability and order prevailing throughout the universe shows that it was created and is being administered by only one God ( Sura ).

This Christian story is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Koran, Sura Al-Kahf.

In Sura 7 ( Al-A ` rāf ) Madyan is mentioned as one of several peoples who were warned by prophets to repent lest judgment fall on them.

Huna was succeeded by his brother Mar Zutra, whose chief adviser was Ahai of Diphti, the same who was defeated in 455 by Ashi's son Tabyomi ( Mar ) at the election for director of the school of Sura.

His name can be read as " son of Ya Sin " ( the title of the 36th Sura of the Qur ' an ), suggesting he had obliterated his family past and was " re-born " of the Holy Book.

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

Rav Ashi was president of the Sura Academy from 375 to 427 CE.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ursus and Sura ( or, less frequently, year 855 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sura and Senico ( or, less frequently, year 860 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Sura ( or, less frequently, year 943 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sura and Rufus ( or, less frequently, year 935 Ab urbe condita ).

Rav Ashi () (" Rabbi Ashi ") ( 352 – 427 ) was a Babylonian Amoraic Talmid Chacham, who reestablished the Academy at Sura and was first editor of the Babylonian Talmud.

A particularly important element in Ashi's success was the length of his tenure of office as head of Sura Academy, which must have lasted 52 years, but with tradition, probably for the sake of round numbers, was exaggerated into 60.

Did not head his own yeshiva, but was a regular participant in the discussions at the Yeshivot of Sura and Mahuza.

The municipality was formed in 1963 through the amalgamation of Ramnäs and Sura.

Sa ' adya's Emunoth ve-Deoth (" Beliefs and opinions ") was originally called Kitab al-Amanat wal-l ' tikadat (" Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma "); it was the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism, completed at Sura Academy in 933 CE.

As a direct result of Rav Ashi's renown, the Exilarch came annually to Sura in the month after the New Year to receive the respects of the assembled representatives of the Babylonian academies and congregations.

Then he removed to Sura, on the Euphrates, where he established a school of his own, which soon became the intellectual center of the Babylonian Jews.

The Báb's major writings include the Qayyúmu ' l-Asmá ' ( a commentary on the Sura of Joseph ), and the Persian Bayán, which the Bábís saw as superseding the Qur ' an.

On the evidence of Lucian, the Parthians still held the southern, Roman bank of the Euphrates ( in Syria ) as late as 163 ( he refers to a battle at Sura, which is on the southern side of the river ).

Rabbi Yehudai Gaon of Sura ( 760 CE ), author of the Halakot Pesukot, forbade the study of the Nedarim, the Talmudic treatise on oaths.

:“ We will give the home of the Hereafter to those who do not want arrogance or mischief on earth ; and the end is best for the righteous .”-The Holy Qur ’ an, Sura 28 ( Al-Qasas ) Verse 83

' After the morning prayer the exilarch, who until now has been standing in a covered place, appears ; the whole congregation rises and remains standing until he has taken his place on the platform, and the two geonim, the one from Sura preceding, have taken seats to his right and left, each making an obeisance.

Then the exilarch delivers a sermon on the text of the week or commissions the gaon of Sura to do so.

It also served as a station on another route running from Damascus, Palmyra, and Sura up to Lesser Armenia and the Euxine ( Black ) Sea.

Penza () is a city and the administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the Sura River, southeast of Moscow.

After Julia ’ s first husband died in 74 BC, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus ( Sura ), a politician, who in 63 BC, was involved in the Catiline conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero.

The title of gaon came to be applied to the heads of the two Babylonian academies of Sura and Pumbedita, though it did not displace the original title of Rosh Yeshivah Ge ' on Ya ' akov ( Hebrew, head of the academy, pride of Jacob ).

In 1974, an Egyptian biochemist named Rashad Khalifa claimed to have discovered a mathematical code in the Qur ' an based on these initials and the number 19, which is mentioned in Sura 74: 30 of the Qur ' an.

" Sura 66, At-Tahrim, elaborates on this and says that Noah's wife is an unbeliever in hell who was unfaithful to her husband.

" Whoever reads Sura Kahf on Friday, light shall shine forth for him between the two Fridays.

– Sura 96, Al-Alaq, which begins with a short discourse on the ' miracle of life.

Commentators on the Qur ' an, like Ibn Kathir are of the opinion that this verse could also be referring to the poor-due mentioned in Sura 6: 141 which states " pay the due thereof on the day of their harvest.

The next verse, i. e. Sura 23: 8 stresses on the quality trust that the believers ' are to possess describing them as " Those who faithfully observe their trusts and their covenants ".

The inhabitants of Kairwan were troubled by the differences between his halakhot and those of the Talmud, and by some strange Hebrew expressions used by him ; but the gaon Ẓemaḥ ben Hayyim of Sura, whose opinion they had asked, soothed them by saying that there was nothing astonishing in the four tribes disagreeing with the Talmud on some halakic points.