Ulema

Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American comedian and an actor. He jokes about ISIS, Iranians, and Muslims. Jobrani stars in Descendants on Disney channel and he also stars in a comedy movie called friday after next. He stars in a lot more cinemas. In one of his comedy shows he was joking about how people always think he is going to blow up something just because where he was born in Iran. Maz Jobrani attempts to use comedy to substitute for the bad things, like when people think he’s bad news. He uses structure in his jokes by using act-outs and what-if’s. He uses act-outs like for example, when he was speaking with a persian accent, and he uses what-if’s like for example, when he said when he was in Texas and the caucasian guy flew the plane into the IRS building and when he was in times square and i believe a muslim guy tried to blow himself up, and Maz was suggesting if that had anything to do with him. He incorporates word choice into his punchlines that repeatedly triggers the audience to burst into laughter. Basically, he does and uses the tools to send some kind of message to the audience and more people that they need to laugh about some stuff to get them unstuck and not to be so serious about some things all the time. First, Maz Jobrani uses wonderful structure in his joke routines to make the jokes funnier and more visual. For example, one of his structures was an act-out. In one of his joke routines Jobrani continuously used his hands to make different hand gestures…

was indubitably powerful and potent. Imam Taymiyya lived in times that were tumultuous for Muslims as a result of the Mongol invasion and their brutal annihilation of Baghdad, followed by Hulagu Khan putting to death the final Abbasid Khalifa in Baghdad- Al-Mustasim. This unprecedented turn of events led to a fundamental issue being raised: the classic question revolving around political authority now that the Abbasid Khalifa had taken refuge under the Mamluks. In this essay, I will look at…

thought that there was a decline in 16th and 17th century in the Ottoman state. Mustafa Ali is also one of the scholar who tried to analyze this period. He wrote the Counsels for Sultan like observer but was he really observer or did he wrote all these analyses and critics by adding his own thoughts? I think he cannot be just observer because he added his own thoughts as Kafadar said the composition of Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali, an author with his own personal and political agenda.’’ Mustafa…

The Taliban ("students of Islam"), also transliterated as Taleban, is an Islamist movement which ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, despite having diplomatic recognition from only three countries: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. The most influential members, including Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the movement, were simple village ulema (Islamic religious scholars). Taliban legend has it that in the spring of 1994, upon hearing of the abduction and rape…

is the adoption of Western war instruments and techniques together with the creation of a new military program called "Nizam-i Cedid". This new program changed the military life in the Ottoman Empire by separating military functions from administrative functions to avoid corruption. As we discussed in class, the Tanzimat system introduced a law system that recognized equality to Muslim and non-Muslim millets living within Ottoman territories. As a response, non-Muslim millets felt more…

(intelligence), (3) al.hurriyyah (freedom), (4) of the male sex, (5) nasab Quraysh (Qurayshite descent), and (6) soundness of hearing and sight. The four acquired qualities included; (i) al-najdah, intrepidity (bravery, courage; fitness for combat, war or fighting), (ii) al-kifayah, competence, (iii) al- ilm, knowledge, and (iv) al-wara' piety.4 Regarding the third acquired quality Al-Ghazali goes on to say that it is not necessary for a caliph to have this quality. As this was never a…

just as corrupt and controlling as “the older powers” of Western Europe. SAVAK, the secret police under the Shah, became “increasingly brutal” with training from American and Israeli forces, terrorizing those publicly known or suspected of holding leftist ideals. Around this era in the 1960’s, a cleric known as Ruhollah Khomeini started to preach in the city of Qom, denouncing the Shah and his government. This public condemnation, made in the time period where the Shi’a Muslims’ Ayatollah,…

wanted to help the Afghans fight the attacking Russian army. When the Russian army was defeated, al-Qaeda was set up to continue the fight against people who were thought to be enemies of Islam. Osama bin Laden and the members involved in his terrorist group are known as Islamic extremists. Islamic extremists consider Islam to be the only truly legitimate form of religion for humans. Jihad’s meaning is “Holy War”. The “Holy War” is the fight to defend Islam, with force if necessary. In February…

Cindy Sanchez College Comp II P. Jones-Lewis 9/15/15 Against mandatory organ donation Organ donation provides a second chance at life for thousands of people. People often believe that organ donation should be mandatory for everyone, once they die. Sounds a bit outrageous, and people always seem to argue about the issue as side from organ donation already. I believe it is absurd to violate ones’ freedom, it’s unethical and religious beliefs discourage it. Firstly, many people do believe that…

proportions that stretched far beyond. He now contested not only with the Quraysh in Mecca but the Byzantines and Sassanians as well. The leaders of the Muslim community, the caliphs after his death continued the conquests and established a vast Islamic empire over subsequent centuries. However the Islam of Muhammad’s time apparently changed over the years and the Islamic culture is so very diverse that the idea of Islam as a whole seems like an illusion. Patricia Crone in her Slaves on Horses…