well-known Indonesian writers on Islam is Nurcholish Madjid‚ rector of the Paramadina University‚ Jakarta. This collection of essays is the first major English translation of Madjid’s writings. The essays cover a diverse range of issues but are shaped by a common concern for an understanding of Islam that takes into account the myriad challenges that Indonesia is today faced with. They reflect Madjid’s quest for developing a contextually relevant interpretation of Islam that‚ departing from traditional
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Democracy is a political form of government in which governing power is derived from the people‚ by consensus (consensus democracy)‚ by direct referendum (direct democracy)‚ or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek word (dēmokratía) "rule of the people"‚ which was coined from (dêmos) "people" and (Kratos) "power". There is no universal definition of the term democracy‚ people like the late USA president ABRAHAM LINCOLN define
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The Spread of Islam The religion of Islam has spread all throughout the world. Over twenty-two percent of the people on earth follow the teachings of Islam and are Islamic‚ or Muslim. This fast spreading religion has been‚ and is still being shared with others around the world. There were many factors that influenced the rapid spread of Islam‚ including trade‚ its appeal‚ and Islamic conquest. There are five main rules‚ or fundamentals that help to make up the religion of Islam. These rules are
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| Cultural Discussion | Islam | | DoddR | 5/12/2013 | [A discussion and Identification of the history and location of the second largest religion and culture in the world‚ Islam and the followers of the faith‚ Muslims. A look at and description of the positive and negative points of the culture as well as ways in which Islam have affected and contributed to society.] | Roddric Dodd Paragraph Word Count: 1041 Professor: Jason M. Brocato Total Word Count: 1128 Social
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Islam and Christianity seem to be very different religions but as you get deeper into the rituals and beliefs the two show strong similarities. Christianity and Islam are the two most popular religions around the world but Christianity is the largest religion in the world with 1.9 billion followers. The two religions are monotheistic and believe in one single God but Islam refers to the same god‚ as Allah. The two religions are based on different teachings. Christianity is based on the life and teachings
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after the Islam community has started‚ fast growth of Islamic world was achieved under Rashidun and Umayyad Caliph. The ‘Ummah‚ community activities have spread Islam all over the world starting from Mecca‚ extending till Indonesia where the world’s largest Muslim Population is found currently. The statistics data taken on October 2009 revealed that there were 1.571 billion Muslims all over the world. Since then Islam was observed as the second largest religion in the world. Why do I think Islam spread
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Eastern people. Leading to the topic‚ both Confucianism and Islam are similar and alike in different ways. To begin‚ Confucianism and Islam are alike in many ways; specifically in the belief system. Both religions are down and greatly devoted towards helping others‚ and living a good life. Confucius believe that in order to live a good life‚ people should be well behaved‚ and create the
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decisions. In order to portray this foundation of willpower of deciding a person’s fate in the Islamic religion I will go into detail of how Earth‚ Paradise‚ and Hell plays a key role in one’s afterlife. The Earth plays a critical role on how the Islam faith is followed. There are many rules to to what Islam’s believe‚ and execution of this belief and rules is major when Judgement day comes around. On Judgement Day‚ God judges all the individuals on Earth deciding where they will spend rest of eternity
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the world. This problem is also very common between the Islam and Muslim cultures. The issue of modesty has historically either been interpreted appropriately with no harm to others‚ as a matter of self-respect with no impediment to the well-being and basic rights of others or it has been twisted to suit people’s prejudices to the detriment of others of “honor killings” and genital mutilation‚ which are actually remote teachings of Islam.
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Put otherwise‚ the Constitution repeats the general words “Islam” and “Muslim” more than 200 times. However‚ there are articles which restrict their meanings to the Shiite Islam. For instance‚ Article 12 reads that‚ “the official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Ja’fari School‚ and this principle will remain eternally immutable.” This way not only the Sunnite Iranians‚ but also other sub-groups within
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