While Damascus wasn't strictly a Holy City of Islam, the map of "Muslim Holy Cities" (Doc #8) shows thirteen discrete Holy Cities, and most of them were under Muslim rule. ... Regarding the geographical extent and influence of Muslim cities in the aspect of economy and trades, it could be seen from the map of "Muslim Trade Routes" (Doc #4) that trades among Muslim cities were so active then that a massive trading network was found in the Muslim society. Also, the conversation between Abd al-Rahman and Al-Jahiz (Doc #7) shows that although Muslim cities all played crucial roles in t...

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Spirituality, although it has always been surrounded by mysticism and uncertainty, has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual world. These archaic human beings engaged in mortuary practices similar to modern ones, burying their dead in sleeping positions and surrounding them with ritual artifacts. Intricately fashioned jewelry and symbolic paintings suggest their belief in an afterlife, while precautions such as ritual decap...

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"There has been a significant change in the global map of production and services in the work of an EU Research on Social Sciences and Humanities (2005). ... Labrianidis (2001) acclaims in a more sceptical way, although the essence of globalisation is to extend the world economic playground, transnational companies (TNCs) only show interest in agglomeration to promote their existence in the global map and save production cost thanks to delocalisation. ...

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Sisi started avoiding the mistakes of his predecessor by quickly appointing a civilian government and president and engaging civilians in setting the new road map for Egypt, which consists of, but not limited to, voting on a new constitution, as well as respective presidential and parliamentary elections. ...

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For instance, Cornell (1991) argues that Robin West is an essentialist because she "maps the feminine into femaleness", meaning that she as a woman "shares common biological structure which affects psychic identity" (Cornell, 1991). ...

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In the Eastern corner of the map we have a vast region that upholds the name of the Rus population, a country of a mixture of populations stretching over two continents that has fallen into disarray after the death of its architect, Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin but as everything there is in Russia it changed from Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili to what we know as Stalin yet his Georgian roots are of no concern to us, the important piece of puzzle is what he left after his death a succumbing empire similar to the fading Western Roman Empire at his end, a population living in lush, greediness, g...

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