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obvious, even if one had not heard the laws of God as such, this ignorance has never constituted an excuse for sin. As this indica...

leading many Americans to think very poorly of all Muslims and of Islam. This individual states that, "We must not allow the enemi...

religions, and political systems. Numerous world entities have agreed that all humans were entitled to certain basic rights and f...

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...

to pass judgment on dogmas source, i.e. "the closing of the door of ijtihad" occurred in Sunni Islam between the tenth and twelfth...

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

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...

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

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

aspect of Bambara existence changed drastically - from acceptable clothing to monetary exchange and sexual habits to polygamy - sp...

for the most part and that matters. There is the Protestant Work Ethic that is aligned with the "spirit of capitalism," that Max W...

on to explain that Sufism, drawing on this tradition, actually evolved roughly two centuries after the beginning of Islam. The c...

believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

He was so devout in his beliefs, that eventually he caused the downfall of the Majapahit kingdom, which had been very powerful.7 ...

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

September 11 has brought a massive increase in conversions to Islam as never seen before" (Igbal). He proves his own asser...

by His Grace to the garden of bliss and forgiveness. And He makes His signs clear to mankind, that they may receive admonition". M...

elected to Prime Minister of Ghana. At the onset he was very popular and effective in getting his programs supported by parliament...

and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

its weakness as well. In this day of consolidation, mergers and acquisitions, the financial institutions with the most resources c...

massive immigration in the early days when people came over from Europe. It began in the colonial times of course, but there was a...

8:20 she was dead. She committed a mistake, even if it was against her will," says Sirhan. "Anyway, its better to have one person ...

so-called blighted slum that the city claimed it was, the area was actually described as the "lively, working-class community of t...

three years. This is a significant development and something that made international news. The scope of this particular article re...