For the first time, women were given the right to the goods paid for their bride prices; they received an inheritance from their fathers (albeit unequal from that of her brothers). Women also earned family rights through Islam: Islam limited the number of wives a man might take, gave a mother rights to her children, and obligated the father to maintain them even if under the mother's care. ... • Many of them seek humanitarian causes: caring for the sick, seek aid when pilgrims run out of resources, and run Islamiyya schools (Islamic schools). ...

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Unlike the Christians where there is a Holy Trinity that consists of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but all the same person, the Islam believes in one god, Allah, and his prophet, Muhammed. ... At Mecca, the pilgrims are obliged to perform several rituals, including walking seven times around the Kaaba shrine. ...

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Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visi...

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