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عُلُومٌ science in Arabic

عُلُومٌ is how you say “science” in Arabic.

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ثم إن بعض طلبة العلوم من أبناء فارس والروم، صاروا مولَعِين بنوع من جدل المموِّهين،

Then, some students of knowledge from the sons of Persia and Rome became obsessed with a type of deceptive argumentation.

العُلُومِ science

Genitive owner of 'students' — 'the sciences'; broken plural; 'students of knowledge'.

From Misguided Methodology

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وتفهم علومه وأمثاله والاعتناء بمواعظه

And understand its sciences and parables, and pay attention to its lessons.

عُلُومِهِ its sciences

A broken plural, 'branches of knowledge,' owned by 'it' — the Book's sciences — as the thing to be understood. Set straight after the action-noun, it is what the deep understanding works on.

From Devotion to the Quran

ونشر علومه والدعاء اليه وإلى ما ذكرناه من نصيحته

And spread its knowledge, and call people towards it and towards what we mentioned of sincere devotion to it.

عُلُومِهِ its knowledge

The same broken plural 'its sciences' as earlier, owned by the Book — but now as what gets spread, the object of 'spreading' rather than of 'understanding'.

From Devotion to the Quran

وما هو من علوم الاسلام،

And it is not part of Islamic sciences.

عُلُومِ sciences

A broken plural, 'sciences / branches of knowledge,' in the -i form after 'of,' heading an 'of' pair with 'Islam.' Logic, the author insists, is not among the SCIENCES of Islam — an outsider discipline.

From Revelation Over Philosophy

وما دواء هذه العلوم وعلمائها والعاملين بها علما وعقدا إلا الحريق والإعدام من الوجود

And there is no remedy for these sciences, their scholars, and those who practice them in knowledge and belief except fire and annihilation from existence.

الْعُلُومِ sciences

This is the thing the demonstrative points at, a plural reshaped internally from its singular (a broken plural). It is the second half of the 'remedy of these sciences' possessive, taking the genitive that the ownership relation demands.

From Revelation Over Philosophy

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