Sharia

Being a young woman in the United States, means growing, finding yourself, and being free during that process. Not all young women have the same sort of freedom that Westerns have. The United States is a secular country, which is a country that have no religions or beliefs embedded in it’s laws. The countries that these films are based, Iran and Israel, are Islamic nations. An Islamic nation is governed by Islamic laws and cultural practices with a primarily Muslim community. After watching the…

The final country that will be discussed is Saudi Arabia, which has a relatively straightforward legal tradition in comparison to South Korea. According to the Basic Regulation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the nation cites its source of law as the Qur’an, and it legal tradition as Islamic shari’ah law (Vogel 3). Reichel explains that the Islamic legal tradition has two sources of law—the primary sources being the Quran and Sunnah (prophetic traditions) and a secondary sources being ijma…

Rasha Diab, author of Shades of Sulh: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation, states that the literal definition of the word sulh means “reconciliation”, and that it “captures the practices, rituals, processes, and goals of sulh, a very old sociopolitical traditional reconciliation practice in the Arab world that relies heavily on mediation” and attempts to realize the people’s rights in any act of aggression (Diab 42). Diab asserts that not only does sulh discourse merge both judicial and…

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” This quote stated by Malala Yousafzai shows the great importance that education can bring to each individual. But how does Pakistan live up to this philosophy? They have struggled to compete with the world in education and have a complicated road ahead. This case explores the statistics of education as well as a look into the madrassah in Pakistan to further understand their education system. Pakistan is considered to be the…

Greeting In Saudi Arabia, Greeting have been called” formal and proscribed” and lengthy. Also, Saudi Arabians are very strict about greeting etiquette. When they meet, at first they say “hello” to each other and shake hands. They will inquires each other about health and family, but never about a man’s wife, because this kind of behavior is considered as disrespectful. When good friends meet each other, they may shake hands for greeting each other and give a kiss on each cheek. Generally, Saudi…

The Fatimid Caliphate (ad-Dawlah al-Fāṭimiyya) was an Ismaili Shia Caliphate, it lasted from the year 909 to the year 1171 and eventually fell when its last Caliph (Al Athid or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ) died, making place for the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt and Syria under Saladin. The Fatimid Caliphate was the only Shi’a Caliphate, it was tied to the Ismaili branch of Shi’a Islam, the belief is centered around Isma’il, the son of Ja’Far As-Sadid, the sixth Imam and seventh…

Written by Syed Hossein Nasr in January 1965, this book of ‘Ideals and Realities of Islam’ comprises of six main chapters. In general, the gist of this book is to clear things up regarding Islam. During the particular time the book is wrote, many of the Westerners came out with critiques and their own point of view regarding Islam without deeply understanding the religion which then somehow affected the young Muslims to lose their spiritual balance and feel estranged from their own tradition.…

There are about 2.2 billion Muslims in the world. How does Islam affect their lives? How does Islam affect a non-muslim’s life on a daily basis? The impact is huge and causes controversy because stereotypes and ideology are growing bigger and tolerance is getting smaller. I’m going to explain and understand how Islam influences the lives of many people because it shows how a religion can influence people. I chose this topic because it is a global problem that the stereotype Islam causes…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

I have interpreted patriarchal hegemony and Diaspora through multiple perspectives presented in both novels Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) and Season of the Rainbirds (1993) in the light postcolonial feminist theorists in order to support my arguments. The structure of Pakistani society has been derived through the construction of gender roles in obedience to the Islamic law. Both novels challenge the idea of Muslim society dominated by men in former colonial situation. The picture of Patriarchal…