What is Iman? Iman is an expression of the truth a Muslim recognizes, defined by the Prophet: "Faith is knowledge in the heart, a voicing with the tongue, and an activity with the limbs." The six principles of Iman are mentioned in the Hadith by Gabriel: God, the angels, the scriptures, the pr...
My Outlook of Religion In our culture today we live in a society that has shifted its focus to career, money, and personal gain. We have lost much relative to our belief in Jesus Christ and his message. The scientific and technological advances in medicine have lessoned the impact that the mess...
Abraham, a Role Model for Many People In most cases, people have difficulties agreeing on the same thing. In fact, it hardly ever happens at all. A lot of people try to do it, but most of the time, it is just too hard. It is hard to get people who are good friends to agree with each other sometimes...
School Vouchers, The Pledge of Allegiance, and The U.S. Constitution When a person reflects on the history of the united states it is certain that they will find politics and religion going head to head. Today these rival issues continue to pound at each other in the for front. The "Wall of Se...
When looking at different cultures, the differences between each stand out very clearly. Likewise, amongst all the different cultures of the world, one aspect is prevalent in every culture regardless of time, location, and even influence. All cultures of all time have always had a religious aspect. ...
Nowadays I feel that their is a sort of antipathy towards Arab-Americans after the terrorist attacks on 9-11 by arab terrorists just like their was a resentment toward Japanese-Americans 60 years ago after the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.. But people do not realize the great contr...
The French's Christian Mission and Its Effects The Europeans colonized and infiltrated African civilizations in order to make a profit and to be known as a superior nation. By doing this, European colonists "messed up- the traditional African lifestyle. The European mission to bring civilizatio...
In the eighth century, a new Muslim kingdom was established by the Umayyad in Spain. Cordoba, the capital city of the kingdom, became the centre of intellectual life. In this flourishing time, Muslims were known for their love of knowledge and books. Then during the Abbasid era, House of Wisdom was ...
In the earliest of times, religion played pivotal role in society. Most of the religions we know today, developed during the earliest civilizations. All the major ones we know today evolved in many cases from a single, very influential, individual, who took their beliefs or thoughts, which were usua...
Is Islam Compatible with Democracy? Keeping in mind the political condition of the Sunni and Shia countries in the world today it would be very simple to suggest that Islam doesn't encourage democratic principles. We would assume that if Islam did encourage democratic values then Muslim states wo...
Protocol over Introduction of Smith's "Islam A Concise Introduction- (Page 1-30) RECALL: 1. Background and History of Islam 2. Seal of the Prophets -Mohammad His life in Mecca before and after the revelations. Reaction to the message that Mohammad brought to the people of Arabia ...
Religion is sense of human relationship with forces beyond nature. During the history human had a need to have relations with something they believed and could support protect them. Some religions believe the life after death, some have one or more gods and some religions as Atheism do not believe i...
The purpose of this paper is to relate anything that we have learned in class so far this current semester to any particular items in the book that we (each student) chose to read. Personally, I chose to read "Friend By Day, Enemy By Night" by Lincoln Keiser. This book was very interesting to me b...
After the Military conquest of Spain by the Berbers from North Africa, Islam flourished in the Iberic Peninsula for more than 700 years. This was due first to lack of military backup on Spain's behalf, and secondly due to the pacifist teachings of the Islamic civilization. Islam started i...
The relationship between culture and tradition in a society defines the very characteristics of said society, as well as further explains and aids our understanding of experiences like race, class, gender among many other distinguishing factors. Due to there not being a concrete definition of cultur...
Moron Air Base, where I am currently stationed in southern Spain was once a bloody battle field. From 718 AD until 1492 AD Catholics from Europe and the Moores (Muslims) from Africa battled over this beautiful country. This series of battles was called The Recon quest. When the Christians won a battle they would burn the existing mosques and build cathedrals. Similarly when the Muslims won they would burn the cathedrals and build mosques. ...
Al-Qaeda is the brainchild of Osama bin Laden. There was a strong connection between Osama bin Laden as a person and the influences in Osama's life that contributed to the ideologies of the global terror network Al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden has been able to manipulate Islam to fuel his jihad. By analyz...
