Caliph

The “Muslim World” is a region, rocked by conflict, with a complex history. The boundaries of said Muslim World are ambiguously defined and it is shrouded in numerous preconceived notions by different cultures. Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary is account of the Islamic World through Islamic eyes. Ansary takes the reader through the progression of Islam which is a faith that has both spiritual and political aspects. Although Ansary focuses mainly on the political progression of the Muslim state,…

Prompt A1: The Seljuk Turks were an Islamic tribe in Persia during the early eleventh century that began to expand westward. In 1071 CE, at the Battle of Manzikert, the Byzantine army battled the Seljuk Turks. Romanus IV, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was killed and his army obliterated. The Turks expanded their empire into Anatolia, Syria, Jerusalem, and throughout the Holy Land. Turkish zealots prevented Christian pilgrims from visiting Jerusalem and other places Christians…

training and providing logistical support to a number of other radical groups including based in Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Russian republic of Chechnya, Libya, The Philippines, Sudan, Syria and Yemen”. (67) The ideology of the terrorism is creating fear, and usually against innocent people, or people who think and act in a different way of any ideology which terrorists believe. The main goal of terrorism is creating changes into the society, but using the violence, and most of the time,…

a nation. The organization is a part of many troubles in the the Middle East: conflict between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, refugees stranded by the Syrian civil war, no leaders in Yemen and Libya, Sinai breaking away from Egyptian control, etc. The caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and his troops were able to enter to enter Iraq because no one was willing to stop them. The Sunnis support them because they helped to defend the Sunni communities, and the new ISIS administration hopes to win them over…

Cordoba is located on the Iberian Peninsula on a northern bank of the Guadalquivir river, within Spain. From early in the 2rd century Cordoba was part of the Roman empire. Under Roman rule it became a place that was the centre of Roman intellectual life in Iberia and was referred to as Colonia Patricia, for the class of its citizens With the invasion of the Roman Empire through the 3rd and 5th centuries by the Germanic Visigoths, Cordoba was under Visigothic rule between the 6th and 8th…

You have done something bad at least once in your life, and so have I. It could’ve hurt others or yourself, but now think about what got you past the event? I will take a guess that it was forgiveness, acceptance, and understanding. Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan, kills a new wife every dawn. One of these unfortunate women is Shiva, Shahrzad's best friend. Shahrzad vows to avenge her best friend's death and stop Khalid from stealing another girl's life away from her. As the story goes on Khalid…

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has a structure quite similar to the old Ottoman Empire, in that the Ottomans and ISIS both have its caliphate foundation. In another example, the Ottoman Empire started to grow when the Western powers began to decline. The modern day ISIS also grows larger and stronger, and though their power may not grow as much as the Ottomans did, the Eastern identity increased when the Western powers ever so slightly lagged to enforce power. Furthermore, a key…

The Abbasid discontentment is traced from the time of Uthman, when considerable opposition arose because the third caliph appointed family members as governors and other high ranking administrative positions. These disfavoring acts of nepotism continued when Muawiya, the first Ummayyad caliphate, allowed his incompetent son Yazid to ascend to power and effectively concentrated the Islamic rule amongst the Ummayyad clan, when the greater Islamic society believed there were more pious and…

Islam is the second largest religion in the world, accounting twenty-three percent of the global population. Even though they followed the same religion, Islamic civilizations in the past operated both in similar and different ways. From the beginning of Islamic civilization in the seventh century to the end of the Abbasids in the thirteenth century, numerous political and cultural aspects changed while some retained. Throughout this time period, Islamic civilization experienced cultural…

In the Middle Ages, the workforce in Spanish Caliphate included women in various occupations and economic activities such as agriculture, construction workers, textile workers, the management of slaves, tax collection prostitutes and the presidents of the unions, creditors, scholars of religion.In the 12th century, IBN-E-RUSHD said that women were equal to men in all respects and possessed equal capacities to shine, examples of female warriors among Arabs, Greeks and Africans to support their…