ISLAMIC BUSINESS ETHICS by Dr. Rafik Issa Beekun University of Nevada and Islamic Training Foundation November 01‚ 1996 Copyright © 1996‚ International Institute of Islamic Thought PO Box 669‚ Herndon‚ VA 20170 (703) 471-1133 Please do not reproduce or translate in any manner without the written permission of the International Institute of Islamic Thought Islamic Business Ethics Table of Contents DEFINING ETHICS FACTORS INFLUENCING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN ISLAM LEGAL INTERPRETATIONS
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The Formation of Islamic Law In pre-Islamic time law lacked a formal structure as there was no set of laws that united the Arabic world. Towns‚ cities and rural areas all held different laws that were based on tribal tradition. With the revelations of the Prophet‚ a new religion was born: Islam. The Prophet began to introduce the word of Allah to the people and with that came basic laws that provided an introduction to law. The formation of Islamic law was based on three things‚ the Qur’an‚ the
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Medicine and pharmacologyThe book is known for its description of contagious diseases and sexually transmitted diseases‚[46] quarantine to limit the spread of infectious diseases‚ and testing of medicines. Ibn Sīnā adopted‚ from the Greeks‚ the theory that epidemics are caused by pollution in the air (miasma).[47] It classifies and describes diseases‚ and outlines their assumed causes. Hygiene‚ simple and complex medicines‚ and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with Aristotle (and
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addressed and questioned the subject regarding the unity and trinity of God. Yahya Ibn Adi was a philosopher and a Monophysite scholar of the Arab Classical Period who has firmly given treatises of his own interpretation on this subject. This has caused manygfjkfgmngcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccb scholars and other philosophers to critique his understandings and express their own viewpoints of Yahyah Ibn Adi’s philosophy on the unity and trinity of God. Emilio Platti in his article Yahya
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Hippocrates (460-370 BCE) devised a theory about bodily health. This was that good health depended on a balance of the humours (bodily fluids) and disease occurred when the humours were unbalanced. The theory described a systematic and rational approach based on the balance between the bodily fluids which were named the Four Humours: blood‚ yellow bile‚ black bile and phlegm. If the patient had too much of one or other of these the fluids became unbalanced and disease resulted. Different diseases
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has two authors Ibn al-Athir and Rashid al-Din‚ and both are presenting two different arguments about the Mongols and their conquest of the Muslim world. The biggest calamity that the Mongols brought was not only the capturing of Baghdad but also the death of Caliph Abbasid‚ that came as a big shocker to the Muslims. One author argues about the destruction brought by the Mongols‚ while the other gives more details about the capture of Baghdad‚ and the death of Caliph Abbasid. Ibn al-Athir and Rashid
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Sati (practice) "Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow with the Body of her Late Husband"‚ from Pictorial History of China and India‚ 1851. Satī (Devanagari: सती‚ the feminine of sat "true"; also called suttee)[4] is a religious funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recentlywidowed Hindu woman either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion immolates herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.[1] The practice is rare and has been outlawed in India since 1829.[2] The
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International Education Journal‚ 2006‚ 7(4)‚ 391-399. ISSN 1443-1475 © 2006 Shannon Research Press. http://iej.cjb.net 391 Contributions of Islamic scholars to the scientific enterprise Yasmeen Mahnaz Faruqi Flinders University‚ School of Education faru0001@flinders.edu.au This paper presents a discussion regarding the role that Muslim scholars played in the development of scientific thinking in the Middle Ages. It argues that the Muslims were not just the preservers of the ancient and Greek
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conquered to fight for them. They met the Muslim army lead by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of the Yarmuk in Syria on 20 August 636. The Muslim army had approximately 24‚000 men. There were also the families of these men fighting or at least throwing stones. In this battle Hubash ibn-Kais al-Kushairi loses a leg. Also in this battle al-Ash’ath ibn-Kais‚ Hashim ibn-’Utbah ibn-abi-WakkAs azZuhri (i.e.‚ al-Mirkal) and Kais ibn-Makshuh lost one eye. In the end the Muslims manage to miraculously defeat
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from 12th to 17th century European scientism and scholars regularly refers to earlier Islamic text. European world realize that there way of doing arithmetic which is essentially based on Roman numerals which was hopelessly inefficient. Muhammad ibn-musa al-khwarizmi showed Europeans a batter way to doing arithmetic. In his book the Hindu Art of Reckoning he describes a revolutionary idea. He shows that we can represent any number we like with just ten simple symbols. Which are Indian Arabic digits
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