Islamic Golden Age

Osama Bin Laden’s letter to the American people was riddled with religious justification for the 9/11 attacks. From the beginning of the letter, Bin Laden speaks directly to God, asking for “God’s reward” and “support from Him” as he replies to Americans. Bin Laden uses an “us versus them”, or “Islam versus the US” approach in his response. He references the United States’ support of Israel and Judaism and how it brings “laughter and tears” to watch the US continue to delegitimize Islam as the…

Terrorism: 9/11 On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a group of terrorist called “Al-Qaeda” hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the world trade center’s north and south tower in New York City. This left the whole world in shock. What many people thought was going to be a normal day came out to be a day that we will never forget. Nothing this devastating had ever happened in US Soil since the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. A perfectly executed plan by a terrorist group…

Before the boom of the Islamic Empire, the Greek was already living there. Since the Greek were the first architect, most of the design of buildings looks similar to earlier buildings in West Asia through the late Roman Empire. As the Arabs was in the process of replaces Christian churches with Islamic mosques, they were able to experiment with different architectural forums and new Islamic styles. One of the earliest Islamic mosques is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Afterward, many…

Imagine being in a world where any body of any age, sex, religious affiliation or background could carry out their daily activities and live out their days without any biases or discrimination. Imagine setting up a world that has no pre-judgment for our children and future generations. This is the kind of life that acts such as terrorism prevents us from achieving. With every act of terrorism that occurs, a negative picture gets imprinted into the publics minds that will stick for a very long…

unites states with the purpose of harming the civilians.became a jihadist organization with the greatest power in the Islamic world and was the first to get their anti-Western message across the world, after what happened on September 11, 2011 in the United States. “The Qaeda group was established on the decadence of socialism and communism and that is also growing from the Islamic influence.The part of the idea to create the group to the qaeda was by Osama bin Laden because the western ones…

The Dome of the Rock is a Byzantine design inspired building, completed in 691 CE that has stood for over 1300 years. The monument is the first piece of Islamic architecture funded by a Muslim ruler that was created as a work of art. It is an Islamic shrine located on a sacred stone called the Temple Mount, a large outcrop of bedrock in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been venerated as a holy site for over a thousand years and considered one of the most important religious sites in the world…

Intro: The history or Islamic ornamental design is a very rich and complex one. Islamic art, specifically ornamental art found on Islamic architecture, is symbolic of not only the aesthetic trends of Islamic culture but is reflective of the Quran and its poetic descriptions and symbolic stories. When specifically looking at buildings like the Alhambra, one can see that the Nasrid artists embellished the building in three specific ways: the carving of stylized foliage; the use of tiles to form…

What is a hypostyle mosque? A hypostyle mosque is a mosque that contains unique features like lots of columns, decoration in mihrab and in front of most mosques, and they also include minarets that can vary greatly in design. These type of mosques were favored in Arabia, North Africa, and Spain. When looking at a floor pan of a mosque you can easily identify the hypostyle because of the numerous columns. In the text and lecture you can see the “forest of columns” in the Great Mosque at Cordoba…

Jerusalem in the center of the Temple Mount. It is the first domed shrine to be built and is a masterpiece of Islamic architecture. It is the oldest Islamic building to have survived intact in its original form. The building is not only sacred but is also recognised for its beauty. It is gorgeously decorated both inside and outside (Grabar, 2006). The realm of Islam had spread widely with the Islamic conquest of the Palestine, Syria and Jerusalem in the third decade of the 7th Century (Bentley…

The number of countries from which al Qaeda operates is numerous. Speculations range from a low of thirty countries to having at least some presence in up to one hundred countries. Whether the number is thirty or one hundred, al Qaeda has emerged as one of the most prominent terrorist organizations in the world because of its ability to capitalize on emerging technologies in the communication environment. As the leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden recognized the importance of communication…