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Strategic Studies Institute 54). The Arab league played a contradictory role during the civil war in Syria, with some members of the union supporting the republican forces while others went behind the royal forces led by Imam Mohammed Al-Bdr. Egypt supported the republican forces while Imam Badr received support from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The republican forces embraced social progress and republicanism, and were mainly present in cities, while Mohammed Al-Bdr forces fought from rural areas. The conflict

The 1979 Iranian revolution is a revolution that changed the country of Iran for the better. The Iranian revolution resulted in many events which include the overthrow of Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the upbringing of Ayatollah Khomeini. Ayatollah Khomeini who replaced Reza Shah with the role to improve a better perspective about Islam and to protect the realm of the Shiaa community. The Iranian revolution began with the overthrow of then leader Reza Shah, who was a non- Muslim

regarding efficient government and political system. Al-Ghazali was born at Ghazzalah near Tuss in 1058.He is one of the renowned and distinguished philosophers in the history of human thought. He is considered as Mujaddid and also considered as imam among the four Imams. His

Connecticut summer-like Sunday, three women and a man answered sensitive questions about Islam in an Episcopal church, while sharing their experiences as Muslim-Americans. The three women - Dr. Farah Choudhry, Ramla Shaikh, Diana Hossain - and an imam (religious leader), Kashif Abdul-Karim - participated in a public discussion about their religion at the St. James Episcopal Church of West Hartford, CT. The panel discussion, billed as "Honest Conversations with Muslim Neighbors," was sponsored

into two main branches the Sunni and Shi’a. The Sunni who are 80 percent of Muslims, and they believed that, Abu Bakr, Muhammad’s father-in-law, to the successor. As for the Shi’a who only make up 15 percent of the Muslims in the world, believed an imam, in their case Ali, cousin, and son-in-law, should be the successor; due to their blood relations. However, with their differences aside, they shared the common belief that Prophet Muhammad was a messenger of Allah. Both the Sunni and Shi’a also share

incredible insight into the history of the Islam and was the fiercest defender of Ali’s right to succession. Also Zeynab, who was always at the side of Husayn in Kerbala and who later on took over the duty to protect her family and her brother, the next Imam, to assure the transmission of the political and religious message of the Islamic movement. These are crucial differences from Sunni jurisprudence (Ansari, 2016) https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/ansari-shiite-women Since 1959 the Jafari school of jurisprudence

if one is not careful especially if one is not Muslim or Bengali, due to its external homogeneity with other apartment buildings in the neighborhood. Those who do come to practice the faith of Islam at this Mosque are all Muslims. This includes the Imam (the person who leads the congregation in prayer), the Mosque committee, and the hundreds of Muslims who come in to pray on a regular basis. Ethnically, however, there is a bit of diversity. This includes a majority of Bengalis, and

Amir is scared to be a Muslim in that country. This is one of the reasons why he abandons his faith. It has started to scare him. He thinks that the Quran states and encourages things like wife beating and the treatment of women is not appropriate. Emily tells Amir that the words do get twisted in any manner as the person pleases but it cannot make it true. His nephew Abe/Hussein has also changed his name for a similar reason. It is because people judge on the basis of which race and ethnicity you

“‘There is salvation only in Jesus’” (Martel 85). Whispered the priest. “‘They strayed long ago from god’s path,’ said the imam” (Martel 85). “‘Where god in your religion?’ snapped the priest. ‘You don’t have a single miracle to show for it. What kind of religion is that without miracles’” (Martel 86). Here the reader can see that the imam, pandit, and priest each care solely about their own religion and don’t have the other’s religion in interest. This is because in some point

and how to do it. Luckily, my Muslim friend who I came with, told me to stay with him, go wherever he goes, and do exactly how he does. Very much like a priest in a church, a rabbi in a synagogue, or a pundit in Hindu mandir, a Muslim mosque has an imam to lead the service. Before the actual prayer service, I saw men washing and cleansing themselves in a special washroom before entering the prayer area. As previously mentioned, this practice is called the “Wudu” in Arabic, and is performed to cleanse