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Islamic Art Symmetry

Herman Weil; " Symmetry establishes a ridiculous and wonderful cousinship between objects, phenomena and theories outwardly unrela...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

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...

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...

Islamic World, the West, and the Relevance of Medieval History

is based solely upon the influence of culture. Louis Rene Beres 2001 article entitled Terrorism and the Global Clash of Civilizat...

Women's Rights and the Impact of Technology

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

Islam's Early Rise

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

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...

Islamic Mosques

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

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...

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 ...

Chen Yuan-tsung's 'The Dragon's Village'

promising land reform has achieved a broad political peasant base. The Red Army is being recruited from Jiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek...

Nation of Islam

In seven pages the U.S. Nation of Islam and its status as a nationalist organization is compared with the fundamentalist Islamic r...

Women's Rights According to Edmund Burke and Mary Wollenstonecraft

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia on Punishment and Morality Crimes

In eight pages the Islamic definition of morality crimes is considered in a discussion of punishment methods in Saudi Arabia and T...

Art and Architecture of Islam in Great Mosque of Damascus and Dome of the Rock

In eight pages Islamic architecture and art are examined in a comparative analysis of these mosaics. Seven sources are cited in t...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civilization and Religion of Islam

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

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 ...

Persepolis

that is precisely what it is. Satrapi is Iranian, and her autobiography gives Westerners the chance to understand what its like to...

Comparison of Scots Law with Sharia Law

Majestatem, which was heavily influenced by Glanvills English law treatise, but it demonstrates the many sources of Scottish law a...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Islamic View of Holy War

who do not fight "with severe punishment in the hereafter" (Gould, 2005, p. 15). But the Koran does not make it clear whether Musl...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...