Caliph

Throughout Islamic history and even today Muslims pray 5 times a day. This is a way Islam played a role socially on the Egypt population, throughout their everyday lives. One way that Islam played a role politically throughout this time period was, Sultan-Caliph who ran the empire by the religious bureaucracy. Rulers of the bureaucracy were Baybars I, Mamluk Sultan during 1260-1277 A.D. throughout Egypt and Syria. The main part of the society’s law, political values, and ideas strictly included…

The divide is the disagreement on who the prophet (Muhammad) wanted to succeed him. (Brown, 88). The divide focused on two of the four rightful caliphs: Abu Bakr and Ali. Because Ibn Ishaq followed Sunni rule the Sira is solely a Sunni perspective of the life of Muhammad. Modern historians also have expressed skepticism about certain details regarding the Sira. These historians are labelled with…

Complexities in Islamic Iconoclasm Defined as the rejection and destruction of figural images, iconoclasm in the Islamic world has been seen as the “long, culturally determined, and unchanging tradition of violent…acts". It may be carried out in the context of Islam or against the icons of another faith, as evinced by the destruction of Christian and pagan idols. However, G.R.D. King and Finbarr Barry Flood argue in their articles that Islamic iconoclasm in the past and present must be…

the current state of the Palestinian Territories. By 638, Muslims captured Palestine from the Byzantines and made the province into a military district, this is when the Arabization/Islamization of the region started. By the end of the 7th century, Caliphs started to build religious infrastructure solidifying Muslim interest in the region (Bickerton, n.d.). The Crusaders took control of Palestine in 1099. But Jerusalem was reconquered by Saladin by 1187, and created a new Muslim dynasty; the…

The enduring issue, Human Impact on the Environment, is seen across Documents 2, 3, and 4. Human impact on the environment is an impact that can be shown in many different ways. In addition, the impact that people have on other people or their environment can change someone’s perspective or viewpoint on a certain topic, discrimination, or conflict, or modification. Moreover, it would depend on what type of impact it is, and how it could change or be a major effect. Herewith, this means that…

it would be dishonorable not to fight. (Two Views of the fall of Jerusalem). While the Christians and Muslims held high tension, both religions co-existed with one another in certain areas, using reason to resolve disputes. In the Pact of Umar, the Caliph Umar II reached an arrangement with his Christian subjects to maintain peace in his territories. The Christians came up with…

Most identify the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as being an Islamic terrorist group. Whether or not ISIS is actually Islamic has been up for debate. One thing that is for certain is that ISIS does use, proclaim and manipulate Islam in its’ ever-lasting ploy to lure recruits to join their ranks. For instance, one of the ways this is done is through imams. Imams serve as the leaders of Muslim mosques all across the world. So, needless to be said, imams serve as important authoritative figures…

Before we begin our inquiry of whether adopting multiculturalism in our globalised society is a necessity, we must first ask ourselves, what is “multiculturalism” and “globalisation”? Multiculturalism refers to the evolution of cultural diversity within a jurisdiction while globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. We might thus say that multiculturalism must be adopted in our globalised…

It was not until the late 19th Century that Italy became a unified state. Without a navy of considerable size, Italy was unable to participate in what was called the ‘scramble for Africa’, this was when Europe had essentially partitioned Africa. However, Italy did manage to obtain a few small and poor colonies in East Africa. They wanted Tunisia but this was seized by France. Italy argued that, as Tunisia was only a few miles away from Sicily, it had a right to Tunisia due to proximity . Since…

up to higher level. After he had completed his studied then he became a Rector of the Nizamiyyah of Baghdad, the famous university during that time. Soon he was appointed in the legal court to handle such a big case which is to mediate between the caliph of the Abbasid and the ruler of the Saljuq. Then, suddenly at this time he realise that he should focus on other responsibility which need to be fulfil in this temporary life. This conscience make him decided to leave all what he had and went to…