Hagar

These rites procedures include walking around the Ka’ba (Tawaf), and going between Safa and Marwah, as Hagar, Ibrahim’s wife, did during her search for water for her son Isma'il. Then the pilgrims stand together on mount Arafah and pray for Allah’s forgiveness. The pilgrims also throw stones at a jamarah which represents were shaytaan revealed to prophet…

Brenda Beckman-Long’s Genre and Gender: Autobiography and Self-Representation in The Diviners, analyzes and dissects the way Margaret Laurence creates female characters challenging patriarchal norms relating to gender by using textual structure in her novel The Diviners. To sum the text up Beckman-Long argues that Laurence uses specific vocab to depict the oppression a strong female character feels when challenging gender beliefs in a certain time period. An inner monologue told from the…

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Milkman responds to his perceived lack of self-determination by becoming a bystander in his own life. Although he demonstrates enough self-awareness to understand his position, as he reflects that he “never acted independently,” Milkman lacks the motivation to truly work through his thoughts and emotions to decide for himself how to live and what to value. For much of chapters 2 through 7, Milkman seems destined to be a product of his father, unable to break from Macon’s control even when it…

The dictionary definition of a catalyst is a person or thing that precipitates an event or change. Change is something that often affects even the most stubborn character in a piece of literature or medium of entertainment. In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Pilate is the antithetical character to Macon, Milkman’s (the protagonist) father, but by doing so she carries the major ideas of the novel on her shoulders. Like Atlas in the Greek myth, the load she carries is indispensable to the…

Pilgrimage to Mecca - Hajj Hajj means pilgrimage and is one of the five pillars of Islam. In Islam every Muslim is obliged to perform hajj at least once in their lifetime if they are able to do so. Muslims can perform hajj once per year in the month of Dul-Hijjah which is the twelfth and last month of the Islamic calendar. There are several steps in performing hajj which span over five days, from 8th to 12th sometimes 13th Dull-Hijjah. During the hajj Muslims have to travel to many different…

Gender Role Being Unfair As there are still less gender inequality in today’s society, during the mediaeval Christianity women had far less rights and their own voices. Throughout the mediaeval Christianity, the word of God and his messengers such as Paul have given advice on marriage, women and sexulality. In one of the assigned readings, the family line and having an offspring was important. Important enough to getting a close relative or slave pregnant. The general role of gender is showing…

The New Testament contains texts that are successful in converting many to Christianity. Paul the Apostle is one of its writers and one of his texts, the Letters to the Galatians, exemplifies Christianity’s persuasiveness. In Paul’s Letters to the Galatians, he explains to the Galatians that having faith in Jesus Christ is the only law they should be following in order to live an earthly life benefiting from the Holy Spirit. Paul effectively does this by dissuading against Judaism and its…

Do the examples shown above give sufficient material to answer the question of importance of jealousy and envy for the development of religious schisms? Probably not, the examples however show that it certainly did play a role in what happened centuries ago that changes the geopolitical landscape until today. Furthermore the two schisms studied suggest that jealousy in a socio-psychological sense, as Sara felt it, fearing to lose her husband to another woman, might have inherently different…

In 1971, she began teaching literature and creative writing at the State University of New York at Purchase as an associate professor. Morrison continued her successful emergence as a writer with the publication of her second novel, Sula (1973), it is a novel about a girl who lives in a small town in Ohio whose community is destroyed by World War I. It also shows the story of friendship between two African American women that begins in childhood and is damaged by the inability of the surrounding…