Nearly all faiths have a liturgical and doctrinal language. For the Roman church it is Latin‚ for Sunni Islam it is Arabic and for Syriac Orthodox church‚ it is Syriac. Any crossing over of linguistic shreds from the liturgy of doctrine of one to the liturgy or doctrine of the other is important in many ways. If the same word appears in one faith as the other‚ or shares a common root or etymology‚ it may be assumed that it is not only the word and sound that are the same‚ but the very essence of
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Summary Points PRELIMINARY ISLAM ORIGINS OF ISLAM The social conditions and religious practices that existed in pre-Islamic Arabia * Islam began during the seventh century CE in the Arabian peninsular * People of the region were mostly shepherds and merchants * Makkah and Madinah were the two main cities associated with the development of Islam * Most of the local religious beliefs were polytheistic * Judaism and Christianity were well established minority religions of
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1. REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE 1.1 What is sovereignty? The concept of sovereignty is one of the most complex in political science‚ with many definitions‚ some totally contradictory. Usually‚ sovereignty is defined in one of two ways. The first definition applies to supreme public power‚ which has the right and‚ in theory‚ the capacity to impose its authority in the last instance. The second definition refers to the holder of legitimate power‚ who is recognized to have authority. When national
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Aarushi-Hemraj Murder Case – Shoddy Probe‚ Flawed Verdict?Rajesh and Nupur Talwar saw their world crumble before being sent to jail for the murder of their daughter Aarushi. Ushinor Majumdar chronicles the five-year saga of a verdict foretold The butler didn’t do it. Matter of fact‚ the butler was also done away with. So‚ by process of elimination‚ those who remained did it: in this case‚ the parents. After more than five years of struggling with lack of “clear and clinching” evidence‚ an overzealous
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spreading a myth or are themselves simply deluded by their own enthusiasm. This article has also addresses the various aspects of the globalization of Islamic finance‚ among others‚ the issue of the rise of Islamic banking in the West‚ Islamic jurisprudence and finance‚ the Islamic Financial Services Industry‚ global standards and integration of Islamic finance‚ and obstacles facing Islamic finance’s integration and growth into the global financial system. Rise of Islamic Banking The beginnings
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The education of the nation’s youth has always been a contentious issue. One of the largest issues facing the education system is the integration of sectarian religions such as prayers into the classroom and other extensions of the education system. In the mid to late 1900s‚ several court cases went before the Supreme Court involving various aspects of state sponsored prayers. The two major cases involving prayers in schools were Engel v. Vitale and Abington v. Schempp. Within these two cases‚ the
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Jekyll and Hyde The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Muller v Oregon is the judicial equivalent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; with one notable exception; Robert Louis Stevenson’s story is fiction; the Court’s version is real and still scaring people today. The repercussions of the Muller v Oregon decision are factual‚ and the effects of the ruling‚ seemingly‚ have a life of their own. It is astonishing that a challenge to the Oregon law and refusal to pay a $10 misdemeanor fine has had the long-ranging
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Relevance of Sociology for the study of Law. If societies are based upon agreed upon laws‚ then they are very much interrelated subjects. They are symbiotic‚ interwoven‚ interconnected. When someone commits a crime against another person or their property‚ they will have to face the consequences in a court of law. Or reduce it to a smaller group such as a tribe. Even amongst members of a tribe‚ there are laws that may only be verbal‚ or perhaps not even as formal as that. They are followed because
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Law is heavily imbedded in social work practice. Social workers work within the framework of the law in three major capacities. Firstly; as regulators‚ secondly; as advocates or agents for legal rights‚ and thirdly; by developing and commenting on social policy. Social workers are intrinsically linked with the law‚ by working with people for whom the law is designed to protect. Social workers work in different fields of social work practice‚ both directly and indirectly. In all fields of practice
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jurisprudential thought The philosophy or science of the law is referred to as jurisprudence. Traditional jurisprudence can be divided into four basic "schools of thought" or philosophies of law: a. Natural Law School The Natural Law School of jurisprudence postulates that the law is based on what is “correct.” b. Historical School The Historical School of jurisprudence believes that the law is an aggregate of social traditions and customs that have
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