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    Life consists of demands that pull you in twenty different directions at once. You face work responsibilities, networking events, family obligations and your passion for selling vintage clothing online all demanding prominent space on your daily calendar. Managing it all can be overwhelming to say the least. Factor in a relationship with your significant other and your responsibility level jumps up a notch. One way to make life a little easier is to go into business with your significant other.

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    more lasting way to transfer such knowledge than through a book. With a vision of securing the future of Muslims, ancient Arabic-Islamic civilization worked hard to build public libraries where every son and daughter of Allah could learn from the past and build the future. Perhaps, no city has played a more major role in this pursuit than Baghdad. Baghdad, through the ages, has fueled the development of the arts and the sciences. The reputation of Iraq’s capital was synonymous to learning in the ancient

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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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    Other than providing much of the grounds of modern medicine, medicine in the Islamic Empire was innovatory, pre-eminent and revolutionary. For instance, in 706 CE, the first hospital was built by Muslims in Baghdad and the building of hospitals were continued until every major city in the Islamic world had several hospitals, some specialised for certain areas of disease, including mental and emotional. These hospitals were places of clinical training and learning for aspiring doctors as well as treatment

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    Initially Rrevolutions were initially seen as a “new version” of the nineteenth century Europe’s Spring of Nations or the more contemporary anti-communist revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe . After years of conflict between values of the Western and Islamic civilizations, the same conflict that Huntington and his critics discuss, some argued, the Muslim Arab world ultimately chose to adopt Western values: human rights, freedom, and democracy. Thus, they experts who believed that the Arab spring symbolized

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    The development of hospitals during the medieval Islamic period 705-1200ce , helped cure many citizantes with psychological , and cronic desisese . These hospitasl , also known as “Bimarstans” were established all across the Middle East and important cities like Baghdad , Damarcus and Cairo (Rodini 8 ;Hamarneh 367). Islamic hospitals were highly supported by caliphs and the Muslim befief for promoting health and charity for their sick civilians (Rodini 8). These hospitals helped bring unity and

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    There are many terms used to describe the period after the fall of Rome and before the Renaissance, three main terms being the Middle, Medieval, and Dark Ages. In general, these terms are used interchangeably, but are these fair substitutions? In recent years the term “Dark Ages” is becoming less and less acceptable as a phrase which describes the span of years it is meant to refer to. The use of the term “dark” implies a period of stagnation, which is becoming a questionable concept. In particular

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    The middle ages The Middle Ages was from the end of the Fifth Century through 1485. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in shambles and many towns were abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic invasion, new cultures and people emerged, developing into predatory kingdoms that competed for power. After a while, a great artistic culture flourished under the Anglo-Saxons, producers, epic poems, "Beowulf" and sophisticated metalwork. The middle Ages was a great era for artists

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    Cross-Cultural Perspectives ETH 316 BP is a global organization that has a multinational presence in the world. A cultural issue that can impact this organization outside of the United States is gender. In the United States and several other countries that BP works in, gender is not an issue as culturally it is acceptable for men and women to be in business together, but in some countries, especially in the Middle East this is tricky cultural difficulty. This can be a serious issue because

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    Al Farabi Contribution

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    Al Farabi’s philosophical contribution Abu Nasr Muhammad al- Farabi, one the earliest Islamic intellectuals who were instrumental in transmitting the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle to the Muslim world, had a considerable influence on the later Islamic philosophers such as Avicenna. He is widely regarded as the founder of philosophy within the Islamic world. Al-Farabi had great influence on science and philosophy for several centuries, and was widely considered second only to Aristotle in knowledge

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