Sharia

Podcast Reflection #2: Islam Podcast After listening to the podcast, I began to think about the unique relationship between Sunni and Shia, as well as the complex relations between different Muslim schools of thought. In another course recently, I read a novel by Nafisa Haji, a Muslim author, called The Sweetness of Tears. The novel highlights the complex relationship between Sunni and Shia, and outlines a few Shia practices that can be viewed as controversial. Prior to reading the novel, I had…

The Iranian Constitution, written in 1979, lays out the foundation for which their society was built and the ambitions that the people of Iran should pursue. It outlines their beliefs and values to which their form of government will defend and the ideals that will guide their society, specifically those based in the religion of Islam. However, more importantly, it depicts the relationship of the individual to this society and how each will benefit the other in their journey to development and…

The major distinguisher is the “differing interpretations of who deserved to succeed the prophet Mohammad...after his death in 632,” (Kinzer 22). Another difference is that, “Sunnis do not attribute great importance to the violent deaths of Ali and Hussein,” where the Shiites do deeply (Kinzer 23). Politically speaking, a man named Ismail had used Shiism to, “help him build an empire,” which is now modern-day Iran (Kinzer 25). However, the religion binds people together spiritually as well and…

The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

The doctrinal dimension – simply as the beliefs and teachings of the religion. “…take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” [Al-Qur’an 6:151] Jihad, in popular western media this word translates to Holy war. However as stated above Islamic teaching regard life as sacred, if we translate the words "holy war" back into Arabic, we find ‘Harbun Muqaddasatu’. Unfortunately, Muslim writers and translators of the…

The political, social, and monetary qualities of the early states in the Sudanic belt and Sub-Saharan belts of Africa, the Meso-America and Andean South America, and the Pacific incorporated a wide range of and comparative angles. To start, the Sudanic realms (Sudanic Belt and Sub-Saharan Belt) were an extremely directing gathering of states situated underneath the Sahara leave. Their economy comprised of cows, agribusiness, and angling, which is fundamentally the same as a week ago's…

Along with other ethnic minority groups, Muslims, especially those of South Asian origin, experienced discrimination in housing, education, employment, social and welfare services, the media and public life. Some important issues were the availability of halal food; time off for religious festivals; refusal to allow time off for prayers; lack of or inadequate prayer facilities; and issues of dress and language in a range of settings. It is also well-knowledged the unfair treatment of Muslims in…

Muslim attitudes towards punishment are all due to the readings of the Qur’an. Every punishment they run by is within the Qur’an. Muslims have no problem giving punishment as the Qur’an says criminals deserve to be punished for their bad deeds. If anyone goes against the word of the Qur’an, they will be punished severely. Different types of crimes are given different types of punishments, but the punishments must follow by the Qur’an. If a criminal continues the bad deeds, the punishments don’t…

The Islamic state extended quickly after the demise of Muhammad through exceptional victories both at changing over unbelievers to Islam and by the military successes of the Islamic group 's adversaries. Extension of the Islamic state was a reasonable advancement, since Muhammad himself had effectively settled the new confidence through change and success of the individuals who remained against him. Instantly after the Prophet 's passing in 632, Abu Bakr, as the first Caliph, proceeded with the…

Charles watched as his sister spiraled into a darkness which he could not comprehend. She was constantly probed and prodded while being shackled and restrained. In his early 20's she was taken away and institutionalized. During his travels he observed many asylums for the insane and visited thousands suffering from the same disease and vowed that he would make it his life's mission to help anyone who had been afflicted with mental illness. His plans were to build the best institution in the…