Essays 151 - 180
basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...
West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...
I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...
provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...
removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...
of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...
States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...
Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...
Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
several different schools" (Anonymous The History of Buddhism, 2002; history.html). From this we can perhaps understand that these...
first" (Roy 25). As this indicates, Roy sees fundamentalist Islam as both a "product and an agent of globalization," due to the fa...
their protectors in a state of dependence..The rule of inheritance was..traced through males to the exclusion of females" (Badawi,...
first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...
the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...
in the woods or when theory are alone or even when they are in a crisis situation. Prayer under the umbrella of many religions is ...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...
analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...
on to explain that Sufism, drawing on this tradition, actually evolved roughly two centuries after the beginning of Islam. The c...
for the most part and that matters. There is the Protestant Work Ethic that is aligned with the "spirit of capitalism," that Max W...
on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...
by angry whites and the white social workers who farmed the children out to foster homes drove his mother to insanity (Dreyfuss 13...
difference in the way that religion is practiced and interpreted. Growing rapidly in popularity, Islam is in fact spreadi...
however, given the current state of world affairs it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of it. A number...
a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...