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Sunnis, Shiites and Differences in Their Religious Beliefs

the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...

Examining Rituals and Beliefs of Islam

provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...

Globalization and Islam

removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

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

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

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

Development and Influence of Christianity and Islam

I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Homosexual Individuals and Religion

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

Female Involvement in Various Organized Religions

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

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

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

Islam and Buddhism Spread Throughout Asia

the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....

Buddhism's Spread Throughout the East

several different schools" (Anonymous The History of Buddhism, 2002; history.html). From this we can perhaps understand that these...

Sub Saharan Gold Trade and Islam

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

A 911 Sociological Analysis

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

Body, Gender, and the Discourses of Mexico, Islam, and Hinduism

of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and the Role of Women

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

believe that the Bible reflects the primitive concepts of the age in which it was written (Ahavat Israel, 1995). Reform Judaism no...

Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis

In other words, the terrorist attacks and the anti-American sentiment that is exhibited by Islamic extremists is only partly roote...

Capital Punishment in Islam

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

Civilizations of Islam, Greece, and Rome

in government policy-making, for example....

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Pilgrimages in Buddhism and Islam

that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...

An Examinations of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

most significant cons, according to critics, is President Bushs imperialist implication. Since the events of October 11th, Presid...

Radical Islam and the Problems in the Middle East

holy cause. Therefore, compromise is unlikely. A student talks about the" energizing character of religious zeal. " Indeed, religi...

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?

political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious ...

Islam, Christianity, and Terrorism

society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...

Middle East, Democracy, and Islam

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...