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    Becoming an expert in Islamic economics and finance field is one of my long-term goals in life. I started to organize and made a plan towards achieving that dream since senior high school. The concern towards Islamic economics and finance concept, and its application for society and the country began when I was reading a book entitled Islamic banking-theory and practice. After finishing reading the book, my interest in Islamic economic and finance topics rose and strengthen my own determination to

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    The Beast Among Everyone William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is an extremely popular book to all ages. This novel takes place in a nuclear war in an unspecified place. Some of these characters have normal personalities and home life situations, but others definitely do not. In the beginning of the novel, most of the boys are normal but getting stranded on a deserted island can really change a person, emotionally and mentally. An example of them being changed is, towards the end of the book when they

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    Mansa Musa Mansa Musa was one of the most extravagant emperors of the early 14th century. He was born in 1280 and he died in the year of 1337 (Musa I of Mali). The Mali empire was originally founded by Musa’s grandfather, Sundiata in the early 1200s. Scholars believed that Mansa Musa had a net-worth of over 400 billion dollars and that he was the richest man in history. Mansa MusaHe Musa was the strongest greatest leader of the Mali kingdom, and he effectively established a wealthy economy for Mali

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    political characters, cultural icons, travelers, and people of science became well known. Two of the many travelers and political characters became known which were Ibn Battuta and King Mansa Musa. Ibn Battuta was a famous Moroccan traveler who was raised in a family of scholars whom traveled thousand of miles starting at the age of twenty-one. Ibn Battuta started his journey at first with the goal of going to Mecca, and he ended up traveling over 40 countries. Mansa Musa was the first Muslim African King

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    opposite of that.Often referred to as “ The Marco Polo of the Muslim world” Ibn Battuta was a great scholar, writer, as well as an extensive traveler. Unlike Marco polo Ibn Battuta traveled a total of 75,000 miles which was far greater than his european counterpart. During his travels he traversed much of the Dar al Islam as well as territory such as modern day Indonesia. Abu abd Allah Muhammad Ibn abd Allah Al-lawati At-tanji Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier Morocco on February 24th, 1304. His family

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    Mamljik

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    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

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    African Empires

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    There is no other way to look at what the African People had for advancements in technology had that kingdom tribes. Europeans arrived in the 15th-16th century, but before that the African people had so many achievements under their belt.These cities became emperors in the 300s. Each empire had their hand in the control of the salt and gold trade. The cities got power from trade and became centers of living. Throughout the 300s cities turned into empires and also fell.The three most known empires

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    My diploma thesis is about the Main Themes in Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” novel. This novel is an autobiographical narrative novel which the author names “ Robinson Crusoe”.Novel firstly was named “ The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, but then was changed into “Robinson Crusoe”.It was published with this title with the intention to look more like the life of a sailor, not of the author itself. The novel represents the amalgamation of middle-class and aristocratic

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    On February 25, 1304, Ibn Battuta,one of the history’s most famous explorer, was born. The explorer was born in Tangier, Morocco in a family of Islamic judges. His pilgrimage in 1325 to the holy city of Mecca started his series of journeys which lasted for three decades. Battuta journeyed to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. After voyaging for three

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    Throughout the novel, Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, there are multiple objects through the novel that have a large impact on the group of boys. Some objects or materials are brought into the book that might help them in a specific way, or even influence the killing of some boys, but none of them had been an influence for as long as the conch shell was. Objects came and went throughout the novel, but the conch really stuck to the boys on the island, influencing them from beginning to end

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