Cultural Diversity Muslims and Arabs Arab Americans and Muslim Americans are often confused as the same subordinate group but are in fact quite different. Many people do not realize that Muslims are considered a religious group and Arabs are an ethnic group. Muslim American and Arab American communities are among the most rapidly growing subordinate groups in the United States (Schaefer‚ 2006). Muslims and Arabs practice their own traditions and have their own beliefs. More than half of Arab
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Portrayal of Muslims in Indian Cinema By Taqdees Babar To Abbass Rashid Butt (Assignment for M.phil) “Cinema is the great interpreter of the past and constantly programs the memory of its audience‚” Abstract: Ever since the partition of the sub-continent in 1947‚ when Britain took apart its Indian domain‚ India and Pakistan have been arch rivals. Bollywood is one of the famous and the strongest industry among the film industries around the world‚ even before the incident of 9/11 happened
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Muslim Contributions in Medicine‚ Science & Technology: The contributions in the advancement of knowledge by the traditional Islamic institutions of learning (Madrasahs‚ Maktab‚ Halqa & Dar-ul-Aloom) are enormous‚ which have been summed up in Encyclopedia Britannica: “The madrasahs generally offered instruction in both the religious sciences and other branches of knowledge. The contribution of these institutions to the advancement of knowledge was vast. Muslim scholars calculated the angle
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Zac Grening HRT 3M Mr. DelleDonne November 29‚ 2012 The Muslim-Hindu Conflict India is in the centre of a very serious conflict in the world today. It is a very diverse place composed of people from many different religious backgrounds that come from many different regions. Two of the country’s main religions‚ Muslim and Hindu‚ have been fighting for hundreds of years for many different reasons. Their feelings of hatred and mistrust for each other are embedded in their memories and will not
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Muslim American Cultural Workshop Cultural Diversity Amanda Blackstock Baker College Muslim Americans were first known in American more than 400 years ago. Some evidence even shows that Muslims were aboard Christopher Columbus ship‚ but this information is scanty. (American Muslims in the United States‚ n.d.) Muslim Americans practice the Islam religion. The majority of Muslim Americans immigrated here from North Asia‚ Middle East‚ and South Asia. The estimate of Muslim Americans comes
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A Muslim Critique of Fukuyama and Huntington By Ibn Yasin Introduction Both Fukuyama’s hypothesis of the ‘End of History’ and Huntington’s hypothesis of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ is discussed below in relation to their lack of usefulness in understanding the aspirations of Muslims in the modern world. The End of History In his hypothesis to prove that the only system that will survive into the future is Western liberalism‚ Fukuyama dismisses Islam and Muslims by looking at the global Islamic
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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE Volume 91 March 1 998 Death and dying-a Muslim perspective Aziz Sheikh MRCP MRCGP J R Soc Med 1998;91:138-140 The care of dying patients and their relatives is one of the most difficult aspects of a doctor ’s job. Enabling an individual to die with dignity can also be deeply rewarding. Britain today is a cosmopolitan society made up of people from numerous religious and cultural traditions. The care of patients with backgrounds different from one
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All-Indian Muslim league By McGlockers Creation • Sir Syed Ahmad Kahn was the finder • Came from Muslims believing that Congress didn’t fully represent them but more towards the Hindu faith • Some of the beliefs was that the intellectual class wasn’t represented • Hindu’s were now treating Muslims with little respect and Congress sis nothing about it Simla delegation - 1906 • Following the creation of a Muslim-majority province the Hindu’s outrage had convinced Muslims that when a vote was going
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Explore media representations of Muslims in Australia in the post-September 11 period. What are the effects of such images‚ both on the Muslim community‚ and the Australian community more broadly? As one of the most significant social agents in today’s society‚ the media has the potential to not only influence‚ but also alter the views and opinions of the general public. According to the type of language used and the nature of the information being disseminated‚ its influence can have an immense
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General Principles of Succession and Inheritance under Muslim Law The Holy Quran states "Allah has purchased from the believers their persons and their wealth in lieu of Jannah." Man is a trustee of the wealth that he owns for his duration of his life. When his term of life expires‚ his trusteeship over his wealth and property expires. It has then to be redistributed in accordance with the directive of The Absolute Owner Allah Ta’la. Directives regarding the distribution of wealth after the demise
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