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Islam and its Fundamentals

not acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God, but it, nevertheless, acknowledges the legitimacy of his teachings and presents him as a ...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Counterintelligence Changes

obliterated the New York World Trade Center and included a simultaneous attack on the Pentagon itself. The sanctity of U.S. polit...

Nation of Islam Documentary

leadership. Though significant changes have occurred in Chicago since the 1960s, the continuation of ideals that were integrated ...

Faith and Mysticism

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

Zoroastrianism's Influences on World Religions

not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...

Triangular Relationship Between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom

existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...

Daniel Pipe's Militant Islam Reaches America

leading many Americans to think very poorly of all Muslims and of Islam. This individual states that, "We must not allow the enemi...

Islam and Women’s Rights

before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...

Are Democratic Priniciples Universally Applicable?

by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democratic principle...

Christianity and Islam

impossible to really illustrate the origins of the two as they involve many historical and religious ideals. For example, in relat...

History of Islam: Sudan and the Dinka People

"Throughout many historical periods, Sudan had served as a bridge linking Asia, Africa and a number of Mediterranean countries. Th...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Islamic Women

women can have no authority over men" (Kamguian). Or, according to another author, Islamic women who give birth to a child out of ...

Women in Islam

the religion itself. And, one must perhaps understand that there are various forms and approaches to the religion so that there is...

The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan and Pakistan

through careful linguistic analysis. The Pashtun language is a part of the Eastern Iranian language and the people are offshoots ...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

Islam Today: Pakistan and Iran

person, Muhammad (also spelled Muhammed or Mohammed)", a man who "became dissatisfied with polytheism and came to believe in one G...

Defining "Crusade" And "Jihad"

The concept of Jihad has long been at the forefront of controversy in its indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. O...

Globalized Islam by Oliver Roy

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

Islam and Rights for Women

their protectors in a state of dependence..The rule of inheritance was..traced through males to the exclusion of females" (Badawi,...

Religious Fundamentalism and its Dangers

first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...

Comparison of Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish Prayer

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 ...

Intoxicants and Islam

This direction is sometimes general in nature yet it can be applied to specific components of our world. Other times this directi...

Cultural Variations Between Islam and America

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

Overview of Islam

a supreme being and endeavor to live by his word s recorded in holy scriptures. Westerners are frequently surprised to learn that...

Same Sex Marriages and Religion

the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...

Islam, A History

and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...

Conflict and 3 Abrahamic Religions

basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...

Significance of Religion and Geography in the Middle East

the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...