Muslim world

In Cemil Aydin’s novel, “The Idea Of The Muslim World,” he explains how Muslims were mainly perceived as a racial category to Europe. I find it interesting how he describes how the Muslims were viewed as a dangerous racial category as oppose to the Jewish, who were also viewed as a racial category but instead as an internal enemy. The Jewish were not considered a major threat like the Muslims were, and Europe did not take as many precautions with the Jews as they did with the Muslims. Aydin explains how the Muslims were seen as a major political threat to the Europeans, and even more so to be wary of as the Muslims had a growing population and occupied many areas of Europe. He also goes into detail about how this perception towards Muslims…

These and other publications by Islamist extremists demonstrate their concern over the need to rationalize and defend their violent actions against criticism from learned scholars within the Muslim world. This is not a challenge unique to al-Qaeda: terrorists and insurgents throughout history have faced a significant challenge of convincing their audiences that the righteousness of their cause justifies their violent attacks. For al-Qaeda, nowhere has this rationalization effort become more…

This world would never be the same if muslim’s innovations that encouraged muslims to build a hospital to save people, many people would be dead. Everyone would die off from disease, sickness, and extreme injuries. Muslims fixed that by making the first hospital, along with other inventions made by muslims. When muslims were making all of these inventions, it was know as, Muslim innovations. The three most important and influential Muslim innovations that changed the world or affect the world…

many religious traditions in various ways. Thus, it appeared as phenomenon of transition from the traditional world to the modern by means of social differentiation, epistemological transformation, and functional specialization on a large scale. It has also emerged by the amalgam of new practices and institutional forms such as science, technology, industrial production, urbanization, and…

What is the Liberal Islam? The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a hectic time period in world history. Europe was the cultural capital of the world, and ideologies such as nationalism and secularism were driving scientific 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…

The entire world was impacted with the Islamic civilization. Areas of commerce, technology, medicine, navigation, astronomy, and other scientific areas were touched by the hand of new discoveries brought forth by the learning centers of the Islamic world. The Islamic caliphates had an economy that was flourishing due to the established trade routes. The procession of people trading through the region also spawned the development of technologies, ideas, and spread the religion of Islam across…

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,…

except for all the others.” The world seems to have embraced this idea, making democracy, at least for now, the most ideal form of government possible. Some regions of the world embrace this more than others. For example, there are no democracies in the Arab world. There are many different reasons as to why this may be, religion, culture, etc. However I believe that the main reasons that the Arab world are not democratic is because of their lack of belief in secularism, the economic structures,…

Islam brought some of the most progressive reforms while the western world was stuck in the Dark ages battling within the feudal system. But now the roles have been reversed; with most of the reforms and technological breakthroughs coming from the west while most of the wars and conflicts have been coming from the middle east(the birthplace of islam). This is due to the misrepresentations of the Qur’an and its teachings that have been occurring for over a century due to the Saudi Kingdom and…

Separate areas within the hospitals back then were set aside for people with diseases. Ibn and his studies changed the outcome of medical history with his books. The most important and influential muslim inventions that changed the world was medicine, astronomy, and geography. Their are people that will argue with this statement, but, the evidence shows otherwise. Some may say that music is the most important Muslim innovation. It says in the Huffington Post “ The modern guitar developed as a…