Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

Road to Mecca is wrote by Muhammad Asad who is the main character of this book. Muhammad Asad previously known as Leopold Weiss, born on 2 July 1900 and died on 20 february 1992. He was a jewish-born Austro-Hungarian journalist, traveller, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar. He was one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century. By the age of thirteen, young Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, other than his…

an aura of distinction, fueling nationalism and reigniting the West vs. East debate. Despite this, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US government remained firm. The ideological differences between the countries have manifested themselves in the forms of American Imperialism and Saudi Wahhabism. The rise of Islamic Fundamentalism is a result of both Saudi Arabia and the United States trying to advance their separate goals while…

modern religious movement for revivalism during the eighteenth century which was found on Saudi Arabia that was best known for its formative influence staring off in large area of Arabia until it influenced other revivalists like that in Africa and India to ideological worldviews of various contemporary Muslims. This was primarily founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92) joining alongside Muhammad ibn Saud (d. 1765) that held a diagnosis was: similar to that of other revivalists: The…

intelligence officer and diplomat for the British government. St. John Philby was also a well-known author, orientalist (an individual who specialized in Middle East and Asian policy), as well as a convert to Islam after his service to King ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia. Philby’s Indian nanny taught him to speak Punjabi and essentially raised him. Kim Philby was so adept at the Punjabi language that he could roam his village, Ambala, virtually unnoticed as a foreigner by…

1989. As for South West Asia/ North Africa, pre-WWI there was Ottoman Empire it was a theocracy and then the results of WWI the empire gets broken and becomes Turkey. King Hussein gets Arabian Peninsula from British but it was taken by Ibn-Saud which is Saudi Arabia. France gets Syria and Lebanon and Britain gets Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. As for the development of SW Asia/ N. Africa it is less developed country because of the oil distribution is unevenly. The oil is almost 60 percent in the…

Parallel to those of the Iranian revolution, this group of people was driven by political concerns of the society and eventually turned their political problems to religion. This movement was initiated by Hassan al-Banna, an ordinary religious scholar whose foundation of political activism was rooted in Islamic values. It was also Egyptian youths, who continued to take a critical role in the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt through the 1970s. When President Sadat was becoming a target of…

The modern Middle East as it exists today consists of complex interactions between the political, economic, and social spheres. Though it would be simple to attribute conflict in the area to something basic such as the supposed inherent violence in Islam, a look further in the past is necessary to fully understand the Middle East as it exists today. By analyzing the great nineteenth century transformation and World War I, a clear understanding of the political, economic, and social landscapes of…

269-74]; Näsif [14, p. 21]; Ibn Qutaybah [15, p. 10]; Ibn Färis [16, pp. 177-8]; Al-Jubouri [12, pp. 99-117]; Koch [17]; and Tytler [18]. According to Al-Mulla [19, p. 232] quoted from Al-Maydani, pp. 99-108 on Ibn Qayyim, pp. 159-167: “Ibn Qayyim identifies three types of Repetition in the Qur’an: Repetition with similarity of meaning e.g. Q74:19-20. Repetition with difference of meaning e.g. Q3:7. Repetition of meaning with different wording e.g. Q55:68.” (2) Ibn Qutaybah [15, p. 183]; and Abu…