So they branded "Philosophy" as heterodox and bidat (anti Shariah innovation). ... EMERGENCE OF THE ANONYMOUS LITERATURE: So, when Philosophy as an alternate to faith was gaining ground among people and that the faith i.e. ... He tried to reconcile the religion with philosophy but not in a purely rational way. ... People started to compare religion and Philosophy and thought them to be two different genres but the introduction of Ikhwan us Safa showed that religion and Philosophy are one and the same. Religion is fundamentally based on Intellect and Reason (guided solely by the auth...

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Science and Christianity: Friends Not Foes Religion and Values What do you think of when you hear the words Christianity and science thrown at you? If you are like the majority of the population you instantly form images of conflict or even outright feuds. As will be discussed furt...

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China has a long history of 5,000 years. So it has inherited a lot from the long history, except on religions. Those religions popular in China , such as Buddhism, Christian, Islam, are all spread from abroad. The only native religions Taoism, is not like other religions on the world. It was first...

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Role of Women in Islam The actual role of a woman in a particular Muslim community may vary according to the part of the world she lives in; nonetheless all Muslim women abide by the same fundamental rules and regulations that the religion clearly defines (Badawi.) Both the Quran and the Hadith ...

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Works Cited Http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html Http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/christiantheology-philosophy/ Http://www.born-again-christian.info/ex.muslim.convert.htm Http://www.islam101.com/tauheed/index.htm Http://www.sharif.org.uk/ch8hamid.htm Http://www.sharif.org.uk/paulianity.htm ...

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The Christian Identity: Christianity grew from a small group of followers into a full fledged religion in the fourth to the sixth century when the Roman Catholic Church replaced the Roman Empire. The church was now head of authority and set all the laws as the Pope looked over the states. They es...

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Introduction to Religion My purpose in writing this paper is to articulate why my religious and spiritual life has changed significantly as a result of my recent introduction to religion. As a result of this course of study I have a new perspective on religion. This new viewpoint has not neces...

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As we embrace technology in today's mainstream world, ethical issues in medicine concerning religious and historical tradition struggle for existence. Science-based medicine takes on the deeper issues of the medical profession rather then the religious and historical context that was once so eviden...

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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...

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In "Islam and Democracy," Benazir Bhutto argues that the religion of Islam and Democratic values aren't inherently at opposite ends of the governmental spectrum, they just haven't been given a fair chance to coexist. Bhutto believes the western notion of incompatibility between Islam and democracy i...

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Abstract This paper hopes to explain the distinctions between a religious belief system and a secular belief system. Within a religious belief system I will describe person, objects, time and or space telling how those things fit in a religious belief system dating back to ancient Rome to the modern...

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Pi Patel, the main character from Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, was forced to suffer the challenge of survival which was caused by the sinking of the boat "Tsimtsum". He however, overcame all obstacles that he encountered throughout the story. Where did a sixteen year-old boy develop the strength ...

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The Bhagavad Gita, or "Song of God", comes as part of Mahabaratha, is an essence of the message of the Upanishads and Hindu Philosophy and is considered to be a guide on how we should live as told by Lord Krishna to Arjuna. 5. ...

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In the 11th century, attacks on philosophy by orthodox Islamic thinkers, notably the theologian al Ghazali, had much to do with the eventual decline of rationalist philosophical speculation in the Islamic community. ...

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