2012 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
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After reading the article about the origins of a Radical Islam‚ I don’t necessary think my perspective on the War on Terror concerning the Middle East has changed any. The article has provided me with a brief history and understanding of the Muslim beliefs. It also has definitely given me a better insight on the possible reasons why and where the Muslims Extremists get their beliefs from that leads them to commit these random acts of violence. I think the main reason it doesn’t necessary change
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Islam is practiced by 1.57 billion people worldwide. According to the 2011 Australian census‚ 470‚000 Australians listed Islam as their main religion. This is the fourth largest religious belief in Australia behind Christianity‚ Irreligion and Buddhism respectively. Similar to Christianity‚ Islam has many denominations (sects)‚ however the large majority of Muslims identify as followers of Sunni Islam. Sunnis are estimated to comprise over 90% of Muslims worldwide. A large majority of the remainder
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The presence of Islam was a powerful force in Mali and Songhai‚ leading to improvement in scholarship and government. The empires of Mali and Songhai were able to have an improvement in scholarship in West Africa due to the thirst for education by conversion Islam‚ as well as an increase in opportunities for people living in the kingdoms. The kingdom of Mali brought Islam to West Africa‚ which was extremely crucial to development in scholarship as there was a social mindset of Muslims being well
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The shift of economic power from east to west In this essay I will talk about how the world power has shifted from the east to the west. If we see today’s modern world‚ we would be astonished and fascinated as to how the world power has shifted from the great east to the west. What are the main reason and factors that lead to the shift in the power? Pardon me‚ if I have condemned the knowledge and thoughts of the great thinkers‚ but I am writing this essay with a limited knowledge of
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The East-West Schism The Filioque‚ or addition of the clause “and from the son” to the Nicene Creed‚ in the west brought the two halves of Christendom into conflict. Two issues were at stake- theology and authority. Was it theologically sound to state that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son as the west came to believe? If so‚ by whose authority could the Nicene Creed be altered? http://joshhatala.wordpress.com/history/the-great-schism-of-1054-an-historiographic-view-by-josh-hatala/
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The East-West Schism Several centuries ago‚ many Europeans during the eleventh century witnessed one of the biggest controversies that the Church had ever experienced in Church history. This is notoriously known as the East-West Schism‚ or sometimes known as the Great Schism‚ which officially occurred in 1054 and led to the complete division of the state church of the Roman Empire with the excommunication of popes and other such problems. Though‚ this rupture between the Eastern and Western Churches
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told being visited by the angel Gabriel who brought revelations‚ or revealed teaching‚ from. Gabriel told Muhammad‚ "You are the messenger of God." According to Islamic tradition‚ at first MUhammad feared that he might be going mad. But Khadijah consoled Muhammad and expressed her faith that God had chosen him as a prophet to spread his words to the people. Khadijah became the first convert to Islam. Islam is based on monotheism‚ or the belief in a singleGod. This God‚ Muhammad taught‚ was the
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Christianity and Islam: Spreading of World Religions Christianity and Islam are one of the main world religions that were created from one god and developed into two separate religions overtime. Christianity now is the world’s largest religion with over 2 billion followers and was founded after the death of Jesus. Islam comes in as the second largest religion in the world with over 1.8 billion muslims which is roughly about one fifth of the world’s population. These two religion were spreaded across
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Spread of Islam vs. Spread of Christianity 600 CE to 1250 CE—a time in which Islam’s golden age took place and‚ from a Eurocentric point of view‚ a time of Christian expansion and conversion—was a period of religious spread and expansion. While Islam was “spread by the sword” due to the military conquests and expansion of the Arab empire (which was predominantly Muslim)‚ Christianity had no association with a specific race or group of peoples and therefore did not spread with the purpose of expanding
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