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Pakistan and Afghanistan Islamic Fundamentalism

nature, in order to accomplish the goals of fundamentalist sects requires firm control of the political and social apparatus of a ...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Famous Speech on the Rights of Women

opinions with regard to womens rights. Indeed, she did not apologize for her forceful tone or powerful declaration; rather, that ...

Ibn Ishaq's The Sira

the Koran. These collections are called hadiths, or Sunna.(Lippman, 1990). Until this time, there existed the Sira, which were ora...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Sexuality During the 12th Century

practices were dictated by the church or by the state, there were certain rules and regulations which governed the act, and in fac...

Overview of Kuwait Finance House

1995). The Kuwait Finance House was started in response to a need for financial services that met the Islamic requirements for in...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Women's Athletics and Equity

later, it would be reasonable to assume that all educational institutions had eliminated gender-oriented discriminatory practices ...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Islamic Architecture and Courtyards

different. With new design it is likely that the courtyard is considered completed and not reliant on change. In addition, alth...

Artistic Portrayal of Women

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

Islam's Early Rise

East Asia (Fiero, DATE). This religion provided "spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of language...

Polygamy in African Countries

In a paper consisting of five pages this writer argues that the polygamy justification used by African Islamic men in order to per...

Islamic Mosques

In ten pages this paper examines the Islamic cultural importance of mosques with 3 famous examples provided. Nine sources are cit...

IRC Impact of Women's Internet Communities Women on the Internet; The Impact of Internet Relay Chat

This paper examines women's internet communities and commercial marketing with regard to women in this overview of Internet Relay ...

Women in Politics and the Effects of Culture

to winning. One can imagine that it would take a great deal of effort for a female Buddhist or Muslim or Jew to get anywhere in p...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

Opposition to Islamic Beliefs

their lifetime. Presumably this requirement is for the spiritual edification of the Islamic adherent. During the ten days of rites...

Contemporary Muslim Turkey and the Religion Theory of Karl Marx

in a system and was so closely linked with economics that it was largely used as a buffer for those in the oppressed lower classes...

The Relationship Of Sharia Law And Islam

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Cultural Consideration in Psychiatry

can complicate the provision of care for some Moroccan patients. Several more considerations will be outlined in the remainder of...

Dichotomy between Text and Illustrations in Medieval Islamic Works

dawn, but the illustration shows full daylight. The warriors are all archers; no one is carrying a mace. There is one banner shown...

Women's Changing Roles in Management

filed the vast majority of sexual harassment cases, illustrating the fact that sexism still remains a very real problem for women ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...