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first" (Roy 25). As this indicates, Roy sees fundamentalist Islam as both a "product and an agent of globalization," due to the fa...

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

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...

production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...

Princess. Brenda is both wealthy and domineering. Certainly one sees the two as inextricable. However, if Brenda were a poor Jew, ...

aspect of Bambara existence changed drastically - from acceptable clothing to monetary exchange and sexual habits to polygamy - sp...

the Hebron area; threats to shoot soldiers" (Brownfeld, 1999). In further understanding some of the foundations of their argum...

removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...

provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...

in an economic position to support a family. The PPA adopts a pragmatic outlook, in that it leaves matters of religious beliefs re...

only hold power in areas in which they can maintain political and economic support of the rich as well as the social mandate of th...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

He was so devout in his beliefs, that eventually he caused the downfall of the Majapahit kingdom, which had been very powerful.7 ...

by His Grace to the garden of bliss and forgiveness. And He makes His signs clear to mankind, that they may receive admonition". M...

September 11 has brought a massive increase in conversions to Islam as never seen before" (Igbal). He proves his own asser...

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...

life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...

believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...

of women, granted the gender a decidedly intellectual and moral existence within the societal framework; indeed, these were two as...

force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...

by angry whites and the white social workers who farmed the children out to foster homes drove his mother to insanity (Dreyfuss 13...

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...

of sorts so that a divorce could not be granted simply and carelessly. "If there was a certificate, there should also be grounds f...

in war and conflict for generations. Islam is a unique and comprehensive ideology which serves as a guide for the worldly...

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...

difference in the way that religion is practiced and interpreted. Growing rapidly in popularity, Islam is in fact spreadi...

to pass judgment on dogmas source, i.e. "the closing of the door of ijtihad" occurred in Sunni Islam between the tenth and twelfth...