Islamic Golden Age

welcomed Muslims in Spain because they were great beneficiaries under Muslim rule. Rule The majority of the Army as well as commander Tariq himself were not Arab but Islamic Berbers, and in timeIslamic migrants from places as diverse as North Africa to Yemen and Syria came to live in the Iberian peninsula.The Islamic rulers called the Iberian peninsula "Al-Andalus", which some say means "Paradise." That was the rootfor the name of the present-day region of Andalusia, the southernmost region

steady of rapid series of events. There were numerous revivals of the Caliphate in which certain strong Caliphs gained more control and influence over the Islamic world than their predecessors had had. However at no point after the death of Harun al-Rahid (reigned 786-809) was the Caliphate ever as powerful. This period is regarded as the Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate and was followed immediately by civil war between his sons. Harun’s two sons were called Al-Amin and Al-Mamun. Al-Amin was

Partnership and Participation In recent years, development focuses have shifted from leaving the power in the hands of multilateral organizations to distributing the power to a range of actors. The idea that the government has the ultimate knowledge and power an out-dated (CCIC, 1). Partnerships and participation refer to the stakeholders in decision-making for projects and development and how they interact. These strategies ensure that every one has a voice in decision-making and the project

Beirut for his BA and PhD; for 12 years, from 1937 to 1949, he served as a law professor for the Iraqi ministry of education and as a member of the first Iraqi delegation to the UN. The Islamic Conception of Justice takes a very comprehensive approach to the question of justice found in Islam and reflected in the Islamic community, and is among the last of Khadduri’s published works (Killgore, 1996). Khadduri has written books and works in regards to individual states, its history, relation to other

lived in different generations have different lives. Of course, this includes people who lived during the Middle Ages. Middle Ages, also known as Medieval period, is the period in European history starting from the collapse of Roman civilization to the period of Renaissance. These people who have lived during the had an antithetic lifestyle from other generations. Life in Middle Ages was different from the life of people in other time periods politically, economically, and technologically. To begin

Jerusalem is of significant value to all Christians since it is the city where Jesus Christ lived and died. Therefore, it is no surprise that Christians would want to protect this city from Muslim invaders, just as Muslims had conquered North Africa, Palestine, Mesopotamia, the Persian Empire, and territories in southern Asia and the Indian subcontinent for their jihad. The word jihad can be translated as struggle or holy war. Further, Christians often had to work side-by-side with Muslims in the

From the beginning of the Song of Roland, the narrator of the story lets us know exactly whose side to be on. The Saracens would be seen as equal to Franks but on the opposing side. The way the Saracens were represented in a negative light to make the Franks seem as though they are good guys. The representation of the Saracens in The Song of Roland is noticeably different from the way the Franks are viewed in the text by shedding a negative light over the Saracens to ensure that the Saracens are

The Muslim Empire grew to encompass a wide range of territory. Their empire included India, Greece, and Rome in addition to many other places. The Muslims were much more advanced than other nations because of their tolerance of other cultures. This enabled them to adopt many of the developments and innovations of the people whose land they conquered. They were able to attain intelligence at the highest level of the time from a specific area they conquered whose main focus of study was that field

role of Islam increased considerably which resulted in overgrown interest in finding the history of Islamic political ideas existing in medieval Muslim society. The evaluation of ideas enabled it to find out the development of mechanism known as ‘Muslim society’ and discover its functioning as an efficient government. Among many Islamic schools of ideas, Al-ghazali is also one of those renowned Islamic scholars who gave his ideas regarding efficient government and political system. Al-Ghazali was born

become larger hubs for patient care or more efficient in the care they provided until the crusades. The Middle East had superior hospitals for hundreds of years; these were huge hospitals that were in some cases paid for by the caliphs and princes. Islamic hospitals in the Middle East have been characterized as a highly developed system, with a network of urban institutions that included a plentiful staff, which provided numerous services and had teaching centers attached. The hospitals had operating