Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Modern law and religion are fundamental socio-political phenomena that share basic foundations. They aspire to constitute, or at least to frame, human consciousness and behaviour in all spheres of life. Accordingly, modern law and religion are complementary, contradictory and simultaneous sources of rule-making, adjudication and execution. Both embed obedience and obligations, leadership, institutions and legal ideology as foundations for their maintenance and prevalence, based on a strict…

Road to Mecca is wrote by Muhammad Asad who is the main character of this book. Muhammad Asad previously known as Leopold Weiss, born on 2 July 1900 and died on 20 february 1992. He was a jewish-born Austro-Hungarian journalist, traveller, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar. He was one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century. By the age of thirteen, young Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, other than his…

villages. During the Bronze Age, they lived in fortified towns and soon trade routes began to pass through Jordan because of its proximity to two booming trade routes that ran through Egypt and Iraq. Jordan also shares borders with Israel, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. After 1500 BC Jordan divided into organized kingdoms of which included the three cities Moab, Edom, and Amon. Then "after 500 BC Arabs called the Nabateans migrated to Jordan. They developed a rich kingdom based on the trade routes…

Inter-Services Intelligence. In addition, a jihad was called against the Soviet Union, since they were fighting against an Islamic state. Thousands came from many countries to volunteer as members of the Mujadideen. Their efforts were backed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and China, in addition to the United States. By 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev decided to withdraw troops due to their high number of causalities and the sky-rocketing cost of the war (history.com,…

violence from a person or group to another country. It happens more often than people realize. Many terrorists live in different countries than they were born in. One of the most hated terrorist is Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia and was one of 50 children in his family. When bin Laden was 11 years old, his father died in a helicopter accident (“Terrorism research,” n.d.). Osama attended Al Thagher Model Schools in Jeddah for education from 1968-1976. There he…

Background: Urology is a surgical specialty which deals with diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs. There is anecdotal evidence that medical students not well known with Urology specialty comparing with other specialties like general surgery, internal medicine etc. Based on several factors including: students awareness, overcrowded curriculum, traditional medical education system, and busy hospital rotations in clinical years and internship are associated…

Osama bin Laden is the 17th out of 52 children, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957. His father Mohammed bin Laden, was an immigrant who had owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Bin Laden believed that Islam was more than just a religion. In the late 1970s while he attended college, he became a follower of scholar Abdullah Azzam, a “radical pan-Islamist.” He had believed all Muslims should rise up in jihad, to create a single Islamic state. Bin Laden supported his idea…

Him along with Abdullah Azzam, and a few others were the leaders of Al- Qaeda. Osama tended to micromanage his organization and what had become his business empire all while Al- Qaeda expanded into agriculture and manufacturing. All along the way he continued to strengthen…

Time of Turmoil The Middle East is in a state of unrest, many Islamic extremists have fallen for the violent ideology to revolt against their government. A general theme of disagreement in faith caused a rift between the citizens and politicians in the Middle East. Leaders who follow a conservative faith that seems antiquated to the citizens are being challenged by the rebels. The booming young generation sees a problem with their government and seeks to make a change themselves. Also, the…

The Keystone XL: A Multi-layered Policy Issue The Keystone XL, a pipeline purposed by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline would carry Canadian crude oil to American refineries. “A new study by the consulting firm IHS found that most of the oil transported through the pipeline would be refined and consumed within the U.S” . The company primarily responsible for the project has made several major adjustments to its original plan to make it more conducive to the wishes of pipeline opponents. The…