Islam Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (159) essays
Islam essays:
Explain the changing concept of caliphate during the periods of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, the Umayyads and the Abbasids (Includes bibliography)
... inherently connected to the traditions and doctrine of Islam. This essay is an attempt to explain why the concept of Islamic caliphate underwent certain changes in terms of its background, its religious literal interpretation and evolving usage, its basis in religious legitimacy and ...
Islam vs. Christianity
... and differences between two widely known and practiced religions: Islam and Christianity. Although, these two religions have easily identifiable similarities and differences, they are both large players in the religious world today with an impressive number of followers ...
Pilgrimage To Mecca
... prophet Muhammad, who defined Islam, and is strongly associated with the lives of Hagar, Abraham and Ishmael, figures known to every Muslim child. For all these reasons, when time comes to make the pilgimage to Mecca, ? Hajj ?, is a duty and desire converge of all Muslims ...
The Qur'an: Open to Modernist interpretation?
... Prophet Muhammad is portrayed in Tradition (whether they are true or not is inconsequential) as being particularly fair to both men and women. It would be highly injudicious to propose that these values were completely alien to Islamic culture, and that Muslims ...
Islam
... mosque. This is the place to worship. It allows fellow Muslims to gather and socialize. Code- As described by Prophet Mohammad. "Islam is built on five pillars: 1. The declaration (bearing witness) that there is no god but God (Allah) and that Mohammad ...
Islamic Religion
... Islam. Islam, AL ISLAM in Arabic, means at once submission and peace, for it is submitting to God"˜s will that human beings gained peace in their lives in this world and in hereafter. Islam is based on having complete knowledge of Allah (God ...
Jihad
... sacred religious] obligations" (cited in Cook, 2007). Perhaps, it is worth mentioning that an international group of Islam considers the military interpretation of jihad as having no place in the Islam world. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a late 19th century religious ...
Terror Beyond Terrorism From an Islamic Prospect
... and trust in Allah, for He is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing (8:61); and O believers, enter into peace (Islam) wholeheartedly, and do not follow Satan's footsteps, for he is your avowed enemy (2:208). In the Hadith literature, Prophet Muhammad describes Muslims ...
Islamic sects (Shiites & Sunnis) from a historical perspective outlining the key similarities and differences.
... world to the sky hierarchy. There were principles, according to which people were consecrated into this secret knowledge. Sunni Muslims, in the contrary to Shiites, doesn't believe in possibility of mediation between the God and the people after the death of Prophet Muhammad, and ...
Euthanasia and Islam.
... Islam. Justification of taking life to escape suffering is not acceptable in Islam. Prophet Mohammad taught: "There was a man in older times who had an infliction that taxed his patience, so he took a knife, cut his wrist and bled to death. Upon this God ...