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Russia and Islam

production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...

The Immediate and Remote Causes of the Attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center

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...

Second World War, Colonialism, Muslims, and India

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the Second World War and the response of the Indian soldier influenced separatism and ind...

Racist Retaliation for 9/11

This research paper puts the retaliation that has been instigated by misguided Americans indiscriminantly against people of Arab d...

Muslims and the Example Set by the Life of Mohammed

to note that Mohammed was born into a poor family and was not unlike other great men who came from poverty. While that is the case...

Muslim Holiday Eid

extreme importance to the members of the religion in question as well as being relatively unknown to those outside of that religio...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

Taliban Control of Muslim Women

to control the female gender, but also to block entrance for women in many areas so that they remain chained to the patriarchal in...

Critiques of The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington

state has cast religious zeal ... to the wind ... in that battle the Iranians have tilted toward Christian Armenia" (Kaplan, 1997,...

2 Interpretations of Gender in Islam

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

Issues on Feminism

causes of unemployment may be the advent of the minimum wage law, inasmuch as minimum wage increases have caused pay scales to cha...

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

Islam and the Hijrah

and goddesses. The commerce and economy largely depended on the tourist dollars. When Muhammad (pbuh) began preaching that there w...

Global Religious Perspectives on the Soul

out the names of his ancestors" (Hauser, 1990). Every eight days, the tribal chief ritually provides a full meal for all the ance...

Religion and Muhammad Ali

in a very "somber mood" due to his internal and external feud concerning "his mentor, Malcolm, and his spiritual leader, the Natio...

British High Court Case of Farrakhan v. Secretary of State for the Home Dept.

following analysis will demonstrate the support for this contention The 2001 ruling Although Justice Turner made the ruling in Ju...

Islamic Perspectives on the Battle of Bader

after three years, he felt compelled to bring the message to the public. He openly attacked the practice of worshipping idols whic...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Islam vs. U.S. Muslim Religion Approaches

continent of North America. While the Muslim religion has experienced much upheaval during the past few centuries, the basic trad...

Muslims, Jews, and Shared Christianity

date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...

Muslim State Creation

religion on another, if the religion teaches that nonbelievers will go to hell, it is only compassion that would drive a religious...

US Black Muslim History

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

911 and its Effects Upon San Diego's Islamic Community

communities after two of the hijackers of the jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon were linked to their community. Since the a...

Function of Printed Media

been used before with old messages. However, when they are read it was possible to put them into a different order, to place diffe...

Conflict in the Middle East

the various ports from which they would be shipped out to the Persian Gulf. This war and its horrors, brought to fruition the rea...

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...

Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman Muslim Empires Compared

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

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 ...

Muslim Capture of Spain

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Moor invasion of Spain and the conversion to Islam in the region that resulted. Eight so...