Caliph

Christianity and Islam and influenced by the cultures of Christians and Muslims. One religious site that is entwined with all three of these religions is the Dome of the Rock located on the Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock which was finished under Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik around 692 was not a mosque but a shrine. This structure is significant not just because of how interrelated it is with the religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, but it is also important in that this space is connected…

In 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II gave a speech that would affect the church for many years to come. He declared that church was going to try and get the Holy Land back from the Seljuk Turks in battles that would be known as the Crusades. Since the mid-seventh century, the Muslims had controlled the Holy Land and had prevented Catholics from entering Jerusalem to make pilgrimages. The Catholics saw gaining the Holy Land back as a sacred duty because the Muslims were…

On September 11th, 2001, one of the biggest terrorism attacks in America occurred. Almost all people in America know that the people who were responsible for this horrific act of terrorism came from the Islam religion, and some people can’t seem to forget it. Any time a muslim is arrested or accused of doing something illegal, people wrongfully assume that they are trying to bomb our country or perform an act of terrorism. However, people aren’t so quick to label white people as a terrorist.…

consolidate Oriental topics and subjects into their works. Numerous researchers consider William Beckford's novel Vathek (1786) a point of interest of Orientalism. An Eastern sentiment, it is situated in a fanciful Arabian or Turkish land. Its hero, the Caliph Vathek, who is half human and half devil, revels his sexy longing, confronts djinns and genii, and winds up cursed to everlasting torment in a variety of the Faust topic. While this work has long been viewed as the prime case of the…

“Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God…” During the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement began to end racial discrimination against African Americans in America. It was a large demonstration of protests and organizations. The process to gain their freedom was long and drawn out. Nonviolent demonstrations of African Americans and those who supported them, were peaceful acts organized to demand the…

allows Mosques on Fridays and Christians on Sundays. The great mosques of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. It is considered to some Muslims to be the fourth-holiest place in Islam. The House of Wisdom was created by Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 786–809, then was taken over by his son Al-Ma'mun in 813–833. Al-Ma'mun was also acknowledged for bringing many well known scholars to share information, ideas, and cultures in the House of Wisdom. A Hagia Sophia is a former…

many converted to Islam. The spread of Islam to Sub-Saharan Africa aided in the rise of political empires, encouraged trade and wealth, and increased the traffic in slavery. Islam tended to be more attractive to kings because of its concept of the caliph, which combined political power with religious authority. While the Africans were exposed to the Islam beliefs their initial African religion was not replaced, consequently they established a unique brand of Africanized…

temple court and blaming Christians for the crime. In spite of multiple Christians being killed for the act one man offered himself as sacrifice and was killed. The author blames Muhammad for this example of superstition. He concludes by stating Ali a caliph, considered himself a prophet himself. People who followed this were called Shiites. This source was written to show how corrupt Islam was in the eyes of Christians. They believed in these superstition which the Christian author thought was…

because he was sure that it was the same pig that he himself had killed. His heart sank at the people talking about the pig. His conscience began to prick him sharply. It is for humanity that Nathu got terrified and restless. He was drenched off all peace of mind because he knew that his misdeed for five rupees would cost havoc deaths in the locality. Here we may have the reflection of M. N. Roy’s radical humanism which Roy interprets as ‘spiritual freedom’ of a man something even more…

written on stones, bark, bones, leaves etc also. It was completely written in his lifetime but was not compiled. Compilation in reign of Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A): After the death of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A) became the first caliph and he worked for the preservation of the Holy Quran. There were a lot of Holy Prophet’s companions who…