Islam

to come as though you die tomorrow, Amr ibn al As. Islam was first introduced to Egypt when Arab forces invaded under the commands of Amr ibn al As, in 640 C.E. After 647 C.E. all of Egypt was under Islamic rule. Arabic language had replaced Coptic as a primary spoken language, after the fact Coptic Christians became the minority. After the fact the Ottoman Empire played a huge role in expanding the Islam religion across Egypt. Eventually Islam spread further than Egypt and spread across much of…

SHIA & SUNNI MUSLIMS. Sunni Islam and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam. Their division traces back to a Sunni–Shiaschism following the death of the Islamic prophetMuhammad in the year 632AD. A dispute over succession to Prophet Muhammed, as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn Ali and his household…

Podcast Reflection #2: Islam Podcast After listening to the podcast, I began to think about the unique relationship between Sunni and Shia, as well as the complex relations between different Muslim schools of thought. In another course recently, I read a novel by Nafisa Haji, a Muslim author, called The Sweetness of Tears. The novel highlights the complex relationship between Sunni and Shia, and outlines a few Shia practices that can be viewed as controversial. Prior to reading the novel, I had…

The Islamic state extended quickly after the demise of Muhammad through exceptional victories both at changing over unbelievers to Islam and by the military successes of the Islamic group 's adversaries. Extension of the Islamic state was a reasonable advancement, since Muhammad himself had effectively settled the new confidence through change and success of the individuals who remained against him. Instantly after the Prophet 's passing in 632, Abu Bakr, as the first Caliph, proceeded with the…

Reflective Essay How Terrorism Effects Islam Reputation A lot of people think of Muslims as bad people, terrorists, and somehow, every time a terrorism happens the news most of the time without knowing what happens they Muslims did this, and when someone from other religions kills an innocent Muslim, somehow he is either a hero or just nobody cares about the poor guy that got murdered, they blow themselves to kill other Muslim people, and they call themselves Muslim's but what I'm going to…

caught most of my attention was Islam. The reason it did, is due to its simplistic idea of right and wrong. It presents a guide on how to life live and care for others too, without the common hierarchy and complications of other religions in its Five Pillars of Islam. After reading the BBC's documentary article on Islam, I would like to share some of it points and present my opinions as well. For starters, let us have a brief introduction at the religion of Islam. The word itself means…

Dar al Islam had founded many great advances in the sciences, philosophy and technology between the 8th and 14th century. This era would later be referred to as the Islamic classical age. It is interesting when you compare dar al Islam to the western world during this time because during their advancements the west was in their dark ages. They had forgone many of their advances in thought, and fell into mysticism and superstitions. During this era, Islam made many advances in understanding, and…

hence stripping away the European stereotypes of Islam from Braudel’s work and the ongoing…

The Islam is very skeptic about everything and everyone who is not Muslim because they believe in conspiracy. The Islam has always believed that other religions are out there conspiring against its faith, in order to diminish the religion and, in the end, turn Muslims against one another. There is no much proof to the conspiracy theories Muslims allege, but there is not much shows that they are just insecure of their religion. This paper is going to review the issue of innovation of Islam by…

Globalization is thereby raising people’s concerns about the massive influx of the Western values in Islamic countries. In fact, in Huntington and other Western analysts and politicians’ perspective, the conflict between Western civilization and political Islam is not only real, but also fundamental (Azghandi, 2009, p. 29). This clash may be seen from the two angles: firstly, how the West dominates and portrays Muslims as uncivilized, barbaric people, but at the same time how the Muslims…