Muslim Brotherhood

countries is a minority in a pluralistic and secularized context. Islam is also internally pluralistic, as it reproduces in itself different cultural national, theological, and juridical interpretations of Islam, to a degree that is hardly observable in Muslim majority countries and in other countries where the presence of Islam is not the result of a recent migration process (Allievi 2014:428). These situations exposed them to a transformative dialectical dialogue with modernity, an universal…

Muslim cities also had water systems with sewer systems, public baths, and piped drinking water that also improved the daily lives of its habitants and also prevented disease (Islamic History). The Islamic civilization was majorly advanced due to the importance…

religion itself is not a direct cause of this lack of democracy, it does have something to do with it. Since the religion is so entwined with everyday life, the population would like to see it in their government. As Elshtain put it, “In much of the Muslim world, secularism is equated…

It appears that the Western media is fixated by the way a Muslim lady dresses; the cover specifically. The greater part of the Arab Muslim ladies are depicted as fat, indistinguishable ladies in their free dress and terrible hidden shape; they even do them as a personification in a few magazines and projects. Truth be told, the idea of hidden lady…

of Islam, which Muslims reflect the actual word of God. The Sharia also follows from the Prophet Muhammad's teachings and understandings of those teachings by certain Muslim legal scholars. Muslims believe that Allah exposed his true will to Muhammad, who then passed on Allah's commands to humans in the Quran. Between the seventh century when Muhammad died and the 10th century, many Islamic legal intellectuals attempted to decipher Sharia and to modify it to the expanding Muslim Empire. The…

evolution and social norms. However, the Muslim community at this time was experiencing an identity crisis, and was a civilization in transition. The once great Ottoman Empire was crumbling from internal and external pressure, Egypt experienced a brief stint of independence under Muhammad Ali before falling under colonial rule, and the Arab community was divided and lacked any sort of leadership from the Ulama. As a result, a new European educated group of Muslim scholars introduced a liberal…

Tibetans (Barakat 1993) (Al-Maazmi, 2012). The worldview of the creators of such legends can be captured in these narratives about the Others’ origin, where tribalism played a major role in how the Arabs have perceived and reproduced the world around them accordingly (Barakat 1993). Such imageries and fictive genealogies are not exclusively found among the Arabs. In a similar fashion, Benjamin Disraeli, the leading Tory statesman and prime minister under Queen Victoria, has projected his…

The “Muslim World” is a region, rocked by conflict, with a complex history. The boundaries of said Muslim World are ambiguously defined and it is shrouded in numerous preconceived notions by different cultures. Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary is account of the Islamic World through Islamic eyes. Ansary takes the reader through the progression of Islam which is a faith that has both spiritual and political aspects. Although Ansary focuses mainly on the political progression of the Muslim state,…

Muslim mathematicians created devices like the astrolabe and the astronomical computer that allowed others to better worship Allah by showing practitioners when to pray, when their holy days were, and for those on pilgrimage, the way to Mecca. Regardless…

Young and Not In Love The average fifth-teen year old girl is worried about how many likes her Instagram post gets not who she will be marrying. Millions of young girls across the world in undeveloped countries have to go threw the struggle of child marriage. Child marriage occurs when someone under the age of eighteen either into by marriage by their parent’s permission. Child marriage is a human rights violation and although even though some of the countries have made laws or act to protect…