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Ethnocentrism v. Cultural Relativism

are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...

Pilgrimages in Buddhism and Islam

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

Islamic History Questions

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

Civilizations of Islam, Greece, and Rome

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

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...

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...

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...

The Straight Path by John Esposito

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

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...

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...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

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

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

Female Involvement in Various Organized Religions

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

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...

Middle East Terrorism

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

Beliefs and Tenets of Islam and Sufism

a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...

Islam and the Hijrah

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

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 ...

Middle Period Islam

of women, granted the gender a decidedly intellectual and moral existence within the societal framework; indeed, these were two as...

Islamic Religion and Impacts of Culture

interpreted. Islam in particular has begun to serve as a point of confusion for the Western World as to exactly what its teaching...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

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...

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...

Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi

In ten pages this paper examines the culture of Islam as presented in Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi. There are no other sour...

Islamic Countries and Mock Tour Itinerary

In eight pages this paper discusses issues relating to Islam in a mock tour itinerary presentation that begins in Washington DC an...

West Africa History

In eleven pages Islam and slavery are among the issues discussed in this West Africa historical consideration that focuses upon th...

Russia and Islam

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

Civilization and Religion of Islam

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

Childhood and Young Adulthood of Malcolm X

by angry whites and the white social workers who farmed the children out to foster homes drove his mother to insanity (Dreyfuss 13...

The Fundamentalist Middle East Society and Anti-Westernism

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...