Essays Tagged: "Qur"
Islamic Women
ginning oftime. Women are treated in this manor for a number of reasons,but all leading back to the Quran. Women are considered inferior tomen, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are oppressed ... en, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are oppressedlegally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detailthe way that a women is to be treated and the way a womenshould treat h ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Sufism - the Islamic Mysticism
as Islamic Mysticism, is a branch of Islam. It deals with special powers that are contained in the Qur'an. It is a more philosophical approach, where a person tries to become one with nature, and fee ... creates a sense of unity with God. (Frager 40)Another way to become closer to God is understand the Qur'an. The degree of understanding a person has about the person is equal to the degree of closenes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Islamic Women
ginning oftime. Women are treated in this manor for a number of reasons,but all leading back to the Quran. Women are considered inferior tomen, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are oppressed ... en, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are oppressedlegally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detailthe way that a women is to be treated and the way a womenshould treat h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
This is an essay that compares Islam and Christianity.
rituals, prayers, and beliefs. In the Muslim faith, their primary source of religious belief is the Qur'an, which was written by the prophet Muhammed in a series of revelations, which lasted for 23 ye ... that God raised Jesus from earth to heaven to reside with him (i.e. they are two different people.)[Qur'an 4:157,158 & 3:55 & 4:157]. Christianity maintains that in fact he was killed and cruc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
This essay is about the political framework of Islam. It talks about the basic principles and happenings in Islam's government.
ts constitute the law of Islam. Risala is the medium through which we receive the law of Allah. The Qur'an laid down the broad principles on which human life should be based and the Prophet of Allah, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Research Muslim attitudes toward woman as based on the Qur'an and as actually practiced in Muslim countries today.
The role of women in Islam is unique among religious based societies. The Qur'an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that woman is, at least, as vital to life as m ... pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other... (Qur'an, 49:13; cf. 4:1).She is entitled to freedom of expression as much as man is. Her sound opinio ... cannot be disregarded just because she happened to belong to the female sex. It is reported in the Qur'an and history that woman not only expressed her opinion freely but also argued and participated ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Islam in contemporary Pakistan
ic faith was founded by the prophet Mohammed in the 6th century C.E. when the holy scripture of the Qur'an was revealed to him in a painstaking process, as he was chosen by Allah to spread the word of ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Ths essay is called "Christianity vs. Islamic Religion" and it gives specific comparisions between the two beliefs.
charity is a responsibility. These two religions also have corresponding verses and sayings. In the Qur'an it says " God does not look at your bodies and faces but He looks at your hearts". In the Bib ... se him with the all mighty himself, but worshiped him. The equivalent to the Christian Bible is the Qur'an. A book of sayings written by prophets. The Islam religion have obligatory prayer which requi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
This essay compares the teachings of Muhammad and Jesus.
mes of need. Because of this upbringing, Muhammad felt the need to stress the oneness of God in the Qur'an. Jesus, in contrast, grew up in a monotheist culture and chose to stress the kindness of a lo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Islam:Christianity's Step child/ An overview of the similarities between Islam and Christianity
re recognized as both playing a major role in the start of Islam. There are certain passages in the Qur'an and in Islam that appear to be directly related to Judaism but are actually channeled through ... epic story of how Islam began has often been told of how an orphaned camel driver in Mecca from the Quraysh tribe became the ruler of a nation, the unifier of warring Arab tribes, the founder of a gre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
To What extent is Noldeke's chronology of the Qur'anic text still defensible?
Islam holds a unique claim in comparative religion that its sacred scripture, the Qur'an, is not the fallible work of men writing their personal accounts of a long dead teacher but t ... ogy of the text and move to look at Bell's and Wansbrough's ideas before examining other aspects of Qur'anic coherence.Watts on Bell's TranslationWatts writes that of Western attempts at forming a chr ... nce.Watts on Bell's TranslationWatts writes that of Western attempts at forming a chronology of the Qur'an the "most important book by far was Theodor Noldeke's Geschichte des Qorans". Noldeke's metho ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
The religion of Islam
which man must submit, is made known through what the Muslim people call the sacred scriptures, the Qur'an (Koran). They believe that Allah revealed the Qur'an to his messenger, Muhammad. According to ... after sunset, and the fifthbefore retiring to bed. However, only three prayers are mentioned in theQur'an: morning, evening, and middle prayer in the afternoon. In strictdoctrine, the five daily pray ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Philosophy: Reason vs. Revelation, Asses the extent to which faith is more valid if based on reason rather than revelation.
h truths about religion are conveyed. In many cases these are in the form of holy books, the Bible, Qur'an and the Torah for example. However that authority may come through special experiences. The e ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Muslim Attitudes to Marriage And Family Life
d He has put love and mercy between your hearts. Verily in that are signs for those who reflect." (Qur'an 30:21)In the Qur'an, the marriage relationship is described as one with "tranquility," "lo ... arriage relationship is described as one with "tranquility," "love" and "mercy." Elsewhere in the Qur'an, husband and wife are described as "garments" for each other (2:187). Garments offer protect ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Gender, feminism and religion
Religion acts as an agent of social control over women as in the holy books such as the bible and Qur'an it says men are in charge of women. Even though there are many female characters in the bibli ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The Qur'an: Open to Modernist interpretation?
Compare and contrast Micheal Cook and Neil RobinsonThe Qur'an has stimulated much debate, discussion, and polemic from the very start of its revelation. It ... slims and a reaction to the intransigence, scorn, and disbelief of the pagan Arabs. Since then, the Qur'an, despite, its sacred status for Muslims, as the word of God, has not simply been immortalised ... olossal lore of Islamic literature bears testimony. However, the analysis and interpretation of the Qur'an has been, until recent years, the sole province of Muslims, who by definition, take their unq ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
The attitudes of Christianity and Islam toward merchants
uch more: like the beginning of the religions. In both holy books: the Bible for Christians and the Qur'an for Muslims, it is described the creation of the earth in the very first's chapters. The Bibl ... Muslims, it is described the creation of the earth in the very first's chapters. The Bible, as the Qur'an states that Christ created the world in six days; in the other hand the Qur'an states the sam ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Women in Muslim Society
ds for in regard to women within their beliefs. The teachings of Islam are based essentially on the Qur'an (God's revelation) and Hadeeth (elaboration by Prophet Muhammad). The Qur'an and the Hadeeth ... not believe in such inequality^ and with this he was a main source of information quoting from the Qur'an and Hadeeth plus giving his viewpoint in many aspects of this religion.Qur'an (God's revelati ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Reason and Religion: An Analysis of Violence in the Qur'an and Its Impact on Islam
One of the most heavily debated verses in the Qur'an is in the surāh dealing with women. One of the verses in the fourth surāh states th ... hand on them, for the ones that are beaten by their husbands, this verse is a difficult part of the Qur'an to come to terms with. Some of these women ask themselves each day whether the violence again ... " is open to interpretation and that six days could in fact be six million years. If we look at the Qur'an, which is taken by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God, it is here that the fundamental ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Sacred Scriptures and Cosmogny
similarities of both religions, both use sacred scriptures. Islam's sacred scripture is called the Qur'an. "The Qur'an is literally the word of God" (Sabini 10). The Qur'an is broken down into chapte ... is broken down into chapters, which are referred to as suras. There are a total of 114 suras in the Qur'an and the suras are broken into verses. The Qur'an is very important to Muslims; they use the Q ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith