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This week Ernst takes on the topic of gender and Islam in his chapter “Gender and the Question of Veiling”. I was interested to learn that “hijab” is not defined in the Quran as many assume. Many assume that the “hijab” is just a scarf that covers a Muslim women’s head, but it actually refers to covering. Hijab is a form of covering for the intent of modesty. The hijab is first mentioned to only include the Prophet’s wives and Ernst includes a translation of the following Quranic verse, “When…

with certain titles, religion or disabilities differently. It has now gotten to the point where it has considerably affected their lives. Muslims are often discriminated and are feared. Policemen often suffer from police brutality and racial abuse accusations. Students with disabilities are often maltreated by the colleges they attend unexpectedly. In America Muslims are often discriminated and portrayed as terrorists or immoral. Ever since the terror attacks of 9/11, Islamo-phobia has become…

Explain the significance of THE HAJJ for ISLAMIC adherents It is one of the five pillars of Islam, Muslims have to complete the Hajj at least once to fulfill the prophecy that was set for them in the Qur’an. Demonstrate how THE HAJJ expresses the beliefs of ISLAM The Muslims need to complete the Hajj because it is in the Qur’an to complete the Hajj, and is one of the five pillars of Islam, which Muslims are required to follow because it is in their faith and traditions to fully submit to the…

Abu Bakr led the prayers in the mosque and supervised the assemblies of Muslims during the last days of the prophet’s life. He was the first caliph to succeed Muhammad who was labeled as the successor of the messenger of God, or Khalifah Rasul Allah (Ochsenwald and Fisher 37-38). One of Abu Bakr’s major achievements was that he launched a series of military battles, known as the Ridda Wars, in which some treacherous Muslims started disapproving of his authority as well as the faith after…

Plausibly, the most important reason for opposing honor killing is religious. Most people plea that Islam is the cause of such shameful acts since there are a lot of killing cases done by Muslim people or in Islamic countries. Yet, according to Amin (2016 ), honor killing is not acceptable, and it is not mentioned in Quran or hadiths. Also, religious authorities disagree with it and forbid it. Iftikhar(2016) reported Imam Zaid Shakir who said that in Islam there is nothing called honor…

In 1977 writer and theatre critic John Heilpern wrote a book he called Conference of the Birds, telling the story of director Peter Brook’s journey into the Sahara in the early 1970s in order to create a new form of theatre that would completely distance itself from any cultural assumptions of its audience. Brook and theatre artists from the Centre international de recherche théâtrale performed their pieces for the native populations in Africa with whom they shared neither language nor culture.…

Sunnah and Ijma’ or general opinion. The Prophet (P.B.U.H) considered Zakat to be among the pillars of Islamic faith. In fact it is second only to prayer. It is an obligatory for an individual of Muslim who are able to do so to ease economic hardship for other Muslims to eliminate inequality among other Muslims. There are many virtues associated with Zakat which impact on the individual as well as society at large. Most important among such virtues is receiving God’s blessing upon giving the…

wrong in an Islamic context” (Beekun, 1997). Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad; who denoted hard work caused sins to be pardon is the foundation of Islamic Work Ethics” (Ali, 1995; RagabRizk, 2008). As the economies of Asian, Arab Muslim Countries flourished, the importance of Islamic Work Ethics become important. The Managers should know how his employees respond in different critical situations. Ali (1988), shown in his study that Arab managers are more advantageous than…

throughout a variety of religions. Also, Gregg calls into question the Qur’an legality in the story of Sarah and Hagar. Sarah and Hagar’s story represents the Muslim woman in a manner legally correct according to the Qur’an where both woman were wives of Abram, neither were left without any inheritance and security and ultimately display an aspect of Muslim woman and their role in society in a very pressing way. Hagar and Sarah’s story shows what the legal norms regarding woman were like and how…

for the discrepancies between Christians, Jews and Muslims in how the story of Abraham was narrated was because of the infiltration of indigenous practices that were common at the time, which bled into the way the story was transcribed and preserved. This, according to the author, is what separates the stories among these three religions. The author specifically goes on to focus on Islam, suggesting that the story is not universal to all Muslims; using the fact that…