YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis
Essays 481 - 510
States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...
of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...
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...
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 ...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...
to pass judgment on dogmas source, i.e. "the closing of the door of ijtihad" occurred in Sunni Islam between the tenth and twelfth...
The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...
not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...
are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...
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...
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 to explain that Sufism, drawing on this tradition, actually evolved roughly two centuries after the beginning of Islam. The c...
September 11 has brought a massive increase in conversions to Islam as never seen before" (Igbal). He proves his own asser...
personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...
by His Grace to the garden of bliss and forgiveness. And He makes His signs clear to mankind, that they may receive admonition". M...
most significant cons, according to critics, is President Bushs imperialist implication. Since the events of October 11th, Presid...
that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...
their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...
Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...
in government policy-making, for example....
culture of Islam and the occidental world. The book details the impacts Islam has had from a religious perspective in particular....
or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...
has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...
islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...