SEARCH RESULTS

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

a supreme being and endeavor to live by his word s recorded in holy scriptures. Westerners are frequently surprised to learn that...

the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...

and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

in an economic position to support a family. The PPA adopts a pragmatic outlook, in that it leaves matters of religious beliefs re...

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...

only hold power in areas in which they can maintain political and economic support of the rich as well as the social mandate of th...

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...

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...

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

difference in the way that religion is practiced and interpreted. Growing rapidly in popularity, Islam is in fact spreadi...

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...