Rashidun Caliphate

Name: Jennifer Thomas Professor’s Name: Dr. Peter Youmans Class: RS 130 “Intro to Comparative Religion” Date: October, 19 2012 I grew up in a household that believed in Christianity and we went to church every Sunday. That church was my foundation, my love and honestly, it was all I knew. At that time, in my community anything other than Christianity just wasn’t accepted and I often wondered why. Although I thoroughly love Christianity, I still wanted to explore our other worldly religions

Seyyed Hossien Nasr. Islam: Religion, History and Civilization. HarperCollins, 2009. 186 pages. $10.39. E-book. ISBN: 0060507144 Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Tehran, Iran. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of technology and Harvard University. Since 1984, he has been university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. He also a well-known intellectual figure in the Muslim world. The book Islam: Religion, history, and Civilization, Nasr provided a clear introduction

in the late 6th or early 5th century BC.[12] Two of the most cherished values of the Roman Republic were freedom of religion and freedom of speech. In Islamic ethics, freedom of speech was first declared in the Rashidun period by the caliph Umar in the 7th century AD. In the Abbasid Caliphate period, freedom of speech was also declared by al-Hashimi (a cousin of Caliph al-Ma'mun) in a letter to one of the religious opponents he was attempting to convert through reason. According to George Makdisi and