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Essays 151 - 180
life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
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...
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...
of women, granted the gender a decidedly intellectual and moral existence within the societal framework; indeed, these were two as...
production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...
In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...
difference in the way that religion is practiced and interpreted. Growing rapidly in popularity, Islam is in fact spreadi...
in war and conflict for generations. Islam is a unique and comprehensive ideology which serves as a guide for the worldly...
must begin with its very fundamental concept of unity of God (Tawhid). In this context, it is also important to note that the cree...
on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...
by angry whites and the white social workers who farmed the children out to foster homes drove his mother to insanity (Dreyfuss 13...
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...
a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...
of the least considered female-dominated religions is Wicca, a practice that imparts spirituality, benevolence and earthly powers ...
sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
several different schools" (Anonymous The History of Buddhism, 2002; history.html). From this we can perhaps understand that these...
Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...
of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...
I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...
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...
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...
removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...