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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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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Islamic Da’wah and the Role of a Muslim Introduction Ever since man existed on this earth‚ he has been trying to know himself and in all cases in which he does not follow the divine revelations‚ he gets misguided and confused between two extremes; sometimes he thinks that he is the greatest in this universe and so he gets filled with selfishness‚ oppressiveness and arrogance that would drive him to disbelieve in Allah and to be oppressive and corruptive. Because of this confusion that man has
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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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Social Issues in and around the world Essay The difference of male and female rights‚ Involving gender discrimination among women in Afghanistan. Introduction to Sociology SOC-Section 011 Fall 2011 The difference of male and female rights‚ Involving gender discrimination among women in Afghanistan Throughout the world in our modern society‚ we can distinguishably recognize several countries that violate our social norms of highly protested and extremely cruel
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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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