Muhammad
Essays

Attempting to summarize the cultural and societal patterns of the Islamic world is like trying to summarize the culture of the planet Earth. Like Christianity and all other religions, Islamic cultures vary from nation…

Muslims practice the religion of Islam, a monotheistic belief that is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, the final Islamic prophet. In Islam, there is only one true God, Allah, and followers of this…

¶ … attack in 2001 was in some ways a complete surprise to most Americans, though the country really should have expected that something like this would happen in time. The World Trade Center had been attacked before in…

A lot of research has gone into the subject of leadership skills as seen from a number of several different perspectives. As a matter of fact, from the early years of 1900 onwards, analyses on the types of leadership…

Muslims believe that a number of doctrines in the Quran or Koran directly oppose what the Bible teaches on Jesus, in particular, His divinity, His death atonement for sin and His resurrection.

Describe the main sources of Islamic law and the main features of the legal system that evolved during the early period of Islamic history.

It has been said that the middle Ages were a time of faith rather than reason. This statement is proven to be true when one looks at the political and religious structure of the major ruling powers of the middle Ages.

Stoning is not prescribed in the current version of the Koran. Islamic law (Sharia) requires that adulterers be put to death, since it was the example set by Muhammad. In practice, the women are executed far more often,…

This paper analyzes a primary source text written by an Islamic fundamentalist: first through the lens of members of the Islamic faith who disagree with a fundamentalist interpretation, and then from the perspective of an outsider to the faith. The focus of the essay is specifically on the role of women in Islam and the rise of Islamic feminism.

For quite some time, the difference between Muslims and Arabs has been a source of confusion as well as discrimination. In this paper we explore the difference between Muslim and Arabs with a special focus on Pan-Arabism. Saddam Hussein and Nasser's roles in Pan-Arabism are also explored. The differences between Muslims and Arabs are illustrated by means of elaborate examples and scenarios.