Shia Islam

Hitti, Philip K. Islam And The West A Historical Cultural Survey. Vol. Reading No. 4. New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, INC, 1962. Print. This reading works towards unearthing the origin of the Muslims stigma in Western culture. Following the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Muslim Seljuk and Ottoman Turks seems to be posing a threat to the Western Christians. Despite Europe’s lack of resources to translate the Koran, they still worked towards disproving the validity of the…

According to Alex Swoyer, Author of More than one in ten Syrian refugees have ‘positive’ view of Islamic State. “85% of Arabs across the Middle East have a negative view of ISIS, while 11% see them positively.”(Swoyer). Although this number may seem huge, Swoyer deeply wants people to consider otherwise. The percentages in the chart had numbers in contrast for if the Syrians have a positive view on ISIS, The highest percentage of positive views were 24%. People with a positive view on ISIS most…

Islam is a religion that was founded in the year 620 AD in the city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, by a man named Muhammed. JW Christianity (the beliefs followed by Jehovah’s Witnesses) is a denomination of Christianity that people began studying in the 1870s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by a man named Charles Taze Russell. While they may seem very different, they are actually similar in specific ways. The holy book of Islam is called the Qur’an. In the Qur’an, it is said that all of…

million), Buddhism (488 million) and Islam (2.2 billion) have all influenced the past with how their values and beliefs affect their followers. This can result in worldwide quarrels over the ‘correct’ explanation for those aiming to search for religious truth. The religion of Islam’s most principle value is that of their God Allah, which is said in the Quran ‘There is no God but God’ (BBC, 2014). The ritual, philosophical and institutional concepts in the Islam religion can tell us as non…

Egypt seemed to be a nation ready for the influence of the Revolution to take hold with a firm grasp. It was accepted by many revolutionary thinkers that “Egypt [was] in a very critical condition” and that “Egyptians [had] looked to the West and then to the East and then to Arab nationalism without finding the answer to their problems” both socially and economically. Additionally, Ibrahim Yazidi, the Deputy Prime Minister for Revolutionary Affairs of Iran, predicted, correctly, that Egypt would…

The editors of our book stated, “Travel writing produced places that could be thought of as barren, empty, unleveled … [and] needful of European influence and control” (319). Meanwhile, Kathleen Jamie’s essay “Shia Girls’ is a piece of travel writing that produced an idea of Pakistan for her Western readers. The keyword in the editor 's’ description of travel writing is “control,” both generally and for Pakistan. Before reading Jamie’s essay, Pakistan seemed an “empty” place for me and probably…

good? In this paper, a huge issue in today 's society will be discussed. The matter of religion… does it assist people by giving hope for a better life or is it holding society back from progress? There are thousands of different religions. Each has their own belief system and ideas about the afterlife and what it will be like. With all these different ideas out there it brings up the question. Are all of these religions good? Is there just one that is correct or are they all just nonsense…

The issue of this essay is to discuss whether religions cause conflict or not. This is a very complex subject, since there can be many point of views, but after my research I can state that they do (not). In the first part of the essay, I will give arguments for/against and in the second one for/against. Most religions are, or at least they say to be, pacific. Among Christianity’s values we can find forgiveness and generosity, which leads to believe that the religion is very peaceful and only…

Faithful There once was a village of the name Rupal. Rupal was located in the outskirts of New Delhi, India. It had a calm environment, where everyone was treated with respect. The village was populated by a majority of Hindus. People with other ethnicities had never lived in the village, and didn 't dare want to. It was strange for the village folk to see a person from a different ethnicity, with their own stereotypes and believes about various religions being contradictory to the Hindu…

Unexpectedly, the results exhibited an even distribution rate between the envelopes with a Middle Eastern name and White name. There were 40 out of 159 envelopes returned for the White name, and 45 out of 161 for the Middle Eastern names. The results do not support the hypothesis of the White name receiving a higher return rate. The data would suggest that there is no bias against middle easterns in the Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama areas. In other studies the results are mixed.…