YouTube highlighting trendy, fashionable, hijabi Muslim women. This video sparked controversy within the Muslim community for various reasons, ranging from the women’s clothing, actions, and the hip-hop music the video was set to. This is evidenced by the many articles written and posted online in response to it. Some of these articles include Sana Saaed’s “Somewhere in America, Muslim Women Are ‘Cool’”, Rabia Chaudry’s “Somewhere on the Internet, Muslim Women are being Shamed”, Aminah Sheikh’s “Why
claim that rejects the notion of anyone being divine except Allah. The American Heritage Dictionary defines ‘cosmopolitan’ as something that is “common to the whole world,” or a person who is “at home in all parts of the earth or in many spheres of interest” (1978, 301). Now, how, on Allah’s earth, can we talk about “Muslim” world cosmopolitanism? That is just how Allah or His prophet, Muhammad (570-632), from day one, viewed Islam,
The topic of religious authority in the Muslim world has been a debate since the beginning of early Islam. The debate of authority was centralized over who was able to elucidate the meaning of the texts of revelation. Over time, the superiority of who had the right to interpret the religious texts and guide the community changed from the pre-modern to the modern period. The fuqaha’ were elite religious scholars, or members of a wealthy family, that rose to power in 700 (Lecture, October 19). The
Without the Muslim advancement on location and time people would be walking in circles. Without the Muslim cites having observatories and increase on astronomy, most likely people would of never knew about space and the far away planets. The three most influential Muslim innovations that have changed the world consist of mathematics, geography, and architecture. Others argue that Literature is one of the most useful Muslim Innovations because it changed how we write and communicate to this day.
Wow! The Muslims had a lot of innovations that we still use today. These innovations affected the world because we use these things in our everyday lives. The most important Muslim innovations that changed the world today are mathematics, medicine, and geography. One of the innovations is mathematics. Mathematics changed the world because we use it in our everyday lives. We use mathematics when we count 1,2,3...etc. We also use mathematics for math classes, 124+200= 324. Numbers are also used
But as we say Muslims empire was scary because it was powerful so in beginning of the eighteenth century with the decreasing of the Ottomans power and the rapid increase of European empire powers, Islam was not that much scary anymore and Islamophobia was disappeared gradually. However, Islamophobia picked up again when these European powers, which were mainly Christians, decrease again after World War II. While European countries and some of Asian ones and USA were burning in World War II fire most
movement that becomes a collective objective of any nation is called Ideology. OR Ideology means such an aim according to which human beings planned about their future. The Ideology of Pakistan The Ideology of Pakistan was the consciousness of the Muslims in the historical perspective of the south Asian sub-continent that they were a separate nation on the basis of the Islamic ideology. No doubt Islamic ideology is the base of ideology of Pakistan so the basic fundamentals of Islam are also the bases
started exploring for new lands and colonizing them. Driven for power, trade, or expansion, many European powers colonized the New World. Yet when looking at the Muslim contemporaries, the Ottoman, Persian and Mughal Empires did not set sail for new land like their Western counterparts. Why did the Muslim world not partake in exploration and colonization of the New World, despite having equivalent wealth and technology? Factors limiting the Ottoman and Mughal Empires colonial participation include
Medicine in the Muslim World and the Americas, 700-1500 Medicine was an important part of the Muslim world; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. In fact, one of the greatest contributions to the Muslim world to modern medicine is the preservation of many of the original works of philosophers, poets and physicians. Subsequently, Muslim doctor and scholars wrote about health and developed an extensive complex medical literature. Unlike medical literature today, which is
was very little knowledge known about health, medicine and disease, therefore lifestyle patterns in the Muslim world and the Americas during this time contributed to illness. Physicians did not have a clear understanding of how diseases were spreading. Diseases like the Black Death nearly swept the Muslim empire. The preservation of the Greco-Roman empire helped contribute to most of the Muslim world’s modern medicine. Islamic hospitals provided care for the mentally ill patients and various forms