How Did Fiqh Influence Western Material Culture And Civilization
Under the rules, laws and system of beliefs that stemmed from Alah, the Koran brought together a group of people inhabiting the Arabian peninsula. Fiqh represents the rule for everything within Islamic law and as result, in 632c.e. (the year of Muhammad’s passing), unified a cultured people that otherwise have little more in common than a geographic entity. These people, coined “Arabs, came armed with Islam as a force of conquest. Caliphs lead a caliphate beginning in the holy lands and continued on Westward towards Morocco, South through Northern Africa and North towards Europe. Spain had a good deal of Muslim influence until Catholics later forced them out. However, Islam yielded the Arabs power for less than one hundred years The golden
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It was this colonization that created the countries of the Middle East. The term Middle East is defined by the geographic location in relation to Europe, furthermore emphasizing the colonizers’ autonomy and arrogance. Originally venturing through the British Canal, Napoleon sought cotton and resources from the new land. The industrial capitalists sought to adopt natural resources as well as explore the holy lands of Christianity and in doing so they appropriated, gouged and exploited an innocent ethnic group. Said is correct in noting that “the Orient” is a tremendous influence on Western material culture and civilization, and yet, at least at first, colonizers were not so fast to credit the people of the new territory. Napoleon felt that inhabitants of the orient could not represent themselves, that they had to be represented. Nineteenth century colonizers painted an image depicting Arabs as barbaric, violent, crude and bombastic, who can only be milked for their natural resources. From this came social constructs and demeaning propaganda, impacting how these people are treated from both political and social points of view. The stereotype outlined is still evident in twenty-first century attitudes. The Middle East and the Arab culture that inhabits much of it exists as a powerful political organism and a wealth of ingenuity and yet it is not necessarily viewed by all as a center of stimulating
It was this colonization that created the countries of the Middle East. The term Middle East is defined by the geographic location in relation to Europe, furthermore emphasizing the colonizers’ autonomy and arrogance. Originally venturing through the British Canal, Napoleon sought cotton and resources from the new land. The industrial capitalists sought to adopt natural resources as well as explore the holy lands of Christianity and in doing so they appropriated, gouged and exploited an innocent ethnic group. Said is correct in noting that “the Orient” is a tremendous influence on Western material culture and civilization, and yet, at least at first, colonizers were not so fast to credit the people of the new territory. Napoleon felt that inhabitants of the orient could not represent themselves, that they had to be represented. Nineteenth century colonizers painted an image depicting Arabs as barbaric, violent, crude and bombastic, who can only be milked for their natural resources. From this came social constructs and demeaning propaganda, impacting how these people are treated from both political and social points of view. The stereotype outlined is still evident in twenty-first century attitudes. The Middle East and the Arab culture that inhabits much of it exists as a powerful political organism and a wealth of ingenuity and yet it is not necessarily viewed by all as a center of stimulating