Ibn Khaldun

Mansa Musa, also known as Kanka Musa, ruled the West African empire of Mali. He gained political and cultural power. Under his reign, Mali expanded its territories and strengthened its control of West Africa’s salt and gold trades. Mansa Musa expanded trade and territory, had religious tolerance, and made a pilgrimage to Mecca.     Mali already controlled the trans-Saharan trade routes between the salt deposits of Taghaza in the north and the gold-bearing lands of Wangara in the south. During Mansa

to read for this summer assignment was The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Revised edition) written by Ross E. Dunn. The predominant reason as to why I chose this book is because I am Moroccan descent and I had a strong desire to learn more about the rich cultures of the Arab world. I once read that those who had the last name Bencomo, which was orginally from the Canary Islands and written as Tehncomo were descendents of the Islamic traveler, Ibn Battuta. This sparked even more curiosity to learn about

Another talismanic visual and material object that aims to protect the individual from the harm of the glance of the eye is this bracelet which bares the depiction of the Evil Eye. The bracelet is made of glass and is richly coloured varying from blue, yellow, and red, with the evil eye painted around the bracelet four times. It is believed that this talismanic object and 32 other bracelets like this one, comes from Upper Egypt and began to be made during the Mamlūk period. This is the only amulet

Theologus Autodidactus, written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), is an early example of proto-science fiction. It deals with various science fiction elements such as spontaneous generation, futurology, and the end of the world and doomsday. Rather than giving supernatural or mythological explanations for these events, Ibn al-Nafis attempted to explain these plot elements using the scientific knowledge of biology, astronomy, cosmology

The Different Social Cognition of the Similar Stories — Synthesis essay of Lord of the Flies Final Project With the development of British culture, the format of Desert Island Literature has an inevitable connection with the geographical and culture heritage of the development of British history. Generally speaking, the setting of such literature is basically around an isolated island which is far from human society. The characters usually follow a primary lifestyle so that illustrate the courage

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, often is regarded as the first novel in history. Time and time again writers find themselves mirroring the themes of Robinson Crusoe in an attempt to create a work as highly acclaimed as the one that may have inspired them to write in the first place. In addition, critics have looked to the past to see if the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers have crept their way into Defoe’s influential work. Many authors and critics compare Robinson Crusoe with John Locke, particularly

Morning/afternoon Mrs Downes and students Golding consciously and carefully builds his characters to reflect aspects of humanity, good or bad, these characters reflect the metaphor of ‘the enemy within’ depending on the way they choose to pursue their traits. In the Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies Jacks characterisation is brutal and mean. Jack is a big bully. These characterisations shown in jack are what is seen in life and how people can be so cruel to each other. Jacks bad ‘enemy within’

Sundiata was not the only influential king of ancient Mali. Mansa Musa (1280-1337), the tenth king of Mali and the grandson of Sundiata’s half brother, made a huge impact on the Mali empire. In 1312, Mansa Musa was elected as the emperor of Mali, becoming the civilization's first Muslim ruler. (BlackPast). He was almost fluent in Arabic and was “described as a Muslim traditionalist” (BlackPast). Mansa Musa is best known for his four thousand mile pilgrimage to Mecca. Because he was so powerful and

Imagine being one of the most powerful and richest ever in the entire world, that was the case for Mansa Musa. Additionally, Musa was an emperor of the wealthy West African Mali Empire in which he was and still is, the richest man in the world with an estimated four-hundred billion. Moreover, he was devoted to the religion Islam and made a pilgrimage to Mecca from West Africa to worship. Therefore, Mansa Musa’s had reasons that demonstrated his devotion to Islam, which are his pilgrimage to Mecca

Our Topic Today is Islam: What is Islam?Islam is a religion that many people follow across the world.It is one of the oldest religon in the world and it is the most known religon today. ____________________________________ Place holder picture ___________________________________ Background Information on Islam:Islam was created 610 A.D by a man named Muhammed. Muhammed got the idea to create Islam from an angel named Gabriel.When Gabriel spoke to Muhammad she told him messages ,that was put into