Caliph

The Importance of Martyrs in Defining Shi’a Islam Today 10-20% of the world’s Muslim population is Shi’a Muslim . Shi’a Muslims have always been the minority within the Muslim community. The Shi’a Muslims believe that the bloodline of Muhammad should have determined who led the Muslim community. They believe that Ali, the prophet’s cousin should have led the Muslim population after Muhammad’s death. Shi’a Muslims follow the leadership of the imams. Imams are the leaders of the Islamic…

Muhammad's father died during Muhammad's birth, around 570 C.E in Makkah, and he was sent away from his widowed mother who soon died after. This led to him becoming an orphan. His grandfather cared for him but after his death, he was in the care of his uncle, who was a merchant and the new leader of his family's poor clan. Muhammad started to accompany his uncle on trading journeys when he was 12 which led to him becoming a trader himself. Muhammad began managing caravans for a woman named…

Introduction The rise of Islamic civilization is largely connected to Prophet Muhammad who played a vital role in Islamic religion. Many authors have been obliged to write about historic civilization about Islamic religion. The basis of many writings is to trace the reasons as to why there was a sudden rise of Islam after the death of Prophet Muhammad. However, there has been a lot of debate especially in the media as to why the religion is highly associated with terror activities. In the…

There’s many reasons why people join a religion. Some are seeking for forgiveness, others want to find themselves, others because they think it’s the right thing to do, and there’s people like me, who follow a religion because of family. When reading My Islam by Amir Nasr, I felt a connection with him and I do believe that the process of a love affair can be a cycle for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. My grandmother was very religious and she taught me how to be Catholic. I would go to church…

Baghdadi’s declaration as Caliph have increased his credibility and notoriety allowing successful implementation of social media recruitment, provided reasoning for other extremist groups to join forces and merge with ISIS, resulting in a large scale growth for ISIS support in Syria…

Rulers. His political thoughts are based on the concept that there is model of state and its ruler, present in the heavens as Divine Law, which is to be applied in this world without any interference. His theory may have been successful in the era of Caliphs and Imams and Sultans, however, in the modern world his theory isn’t fully applicable. Al-Ghazali says that an Islamic State should be a divine state ruled under the divine laws by a Muslim ruler who must be a lover of Prophet Muhammad…

religions. One is called the Sunnis and the other, the Shias. The sunnis is known as one of the two main branches of Islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna and in its acceptance of the first three caliphs. Mainly because of their belief in tradition and how things are run. Meanwhile the Shia is known as the second largest branch of Islam. The Shias consist of fifteen percent of the Islamic population, mainly because they mostly rely on…

Even though the middle east has overcame western domination over the past centuries, one can beyond doubt see the political instability that plagues the middle east, and this political irregularity will cause increasing international turmoil. The Middle East is in a very fragile state that one big incident can cause it to shatter like a tray of glasses being bumbed. When this happens it could possible take the rest of the world with it. This political instability all happened because of the…

There are very many reasons why ISIS has been able to spread across the Middle East and why their control and reign is hard to stop. ISIS, though not said very often, is tactically very smart in their choice of where and when to attack. The group has strong leadership including some of the top members of the party that was overthrown in the takedown of the Hussein dictatorship. Over time this group had been oppressed and been outcast by society due to the loss of their party. Another problem is…

off living under an Islamic rule rather than under say an Eastern Orthodox Christian city much like Constantinople. To him the better life would be in the kinder and more considerate Muslim city of Baghdad where the Jewish are under the hands of the Caliph and are treated fairly. After all he believes that the Jewish are “rich and good, kindly and charitable, and bear their lot with cheerfulness.” (Benjamin, of Tudela, p. 11) and should live under peace and unprejudiced…