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of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

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

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

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

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...

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

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

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

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 ...

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

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

of the least considered female-dominated religions is Wicca, a practice that imparts spirituality, benevolence and earthly powers ...

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

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

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

however, given the current state of world affairs it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of it. A number...

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

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...

This 5 page paper discusses the fact that Osama bin Laden and his followers are Muslims, and that Islam claims to be a peaceful re...

must begin with its very fundamental concept of unity of God (Tawhid). In this context, it is also important to note that the cree...

In ten pages this paper examines the culture of Islam as presented in Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi. There are no other sour...

interpreted. Islam in particular has begun to serve as a point of confusion for the Western World as to exactly what its teaching...