About 6 months ago I had the chance to visit The Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul‚ Turkey. And I was fascinated by the design of the place and the history that it carried. When we were asked to use a topic to write about‚ the only thing that came to my mind was the palace. When I first did some research about the topic I didn’t find much to write about and I found it difficult to link it to our course concepts but after getting some help from my classmates I was able to get a better picture of what
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 Geography of Lebanon Lebanon is today a small republic stretching approximately 160 kilometers along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea with a total area of 10‚452 kilometers square and an estimated population of 3‚874‚050 according to an independent 2006 estimate‚ including Palestinian refugees and foreign workers‚ mainly Syrian. Lebanese territory is dominated mostly by mountains which consist of the parallel ranges of the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon. Between the Lebanon
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which consisted of Muslims‚ Christians‚ and Jews. For over 700 years‚ the era in which Islamic rulers governed was broken into five different successions which consisted of the Dependant Emirate (711-756)‚ the Independent Emirate (756-929)‚ the Caliphate (929-1031)‚ the Almoravid Era (929-1031)‚ and finally the Decline (1031-1492). The history of the Muslim Spain is a very controversial one‚ but the story with the most evidence is as follows. In the year 711 a Christian chief‚ Julian‚ was seeking
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Should the US concern about the fight against ISIS? How much should the US spend on this war? Should Obama send more troops to Iraq? What should be the US military role in this war? Are ISIS a real threaten for the United States of America? These are some of the many questions‚ about the US foreign policy‚ debated among many families‚ veterans or senators in the United States of America. Although there are some important events taking place in the US now‚ such as the new immigration law presented
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English aided Portugal in 1147 of The Great Siege of Lisbon‚ during the Second Crusade creating a start of a newfound friendship between the two countries. The Aliança Luso-Britânica was ratified at the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 becoming the oldest alliance in the world still in working order agreeing that if‚ at any point one of the royal members need help‚ assistance in a most respected and lawful manner will be delivered if able to do so without any deceit or fraud by the other party. To secure
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Pharisees (lat. pharisæ|us‚ -i; from heb. פרושים perushim/פרוש parush‚ meaning "set apart"[1]) were at various times a political party‚ a social movement‚ and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period under the Hasmonean dynasty (140–37 BCE) in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt. Sadducees (Hebrew: צדוקים Tzedukim) were a group or a sect of Jews opposed to the Pharisees (Hebrew: פרושים — from which today’s Rabbinical Jews are descended) that were active in the Land of Israel
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WOMEN IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES The rise and expansion of Islam‚ after the foundation by Mohammed‚ is an amazing story. Ultimately‚ the Muslims‚ as the believers of Islam are called‚ started a world-wide faith that today makes up the world’s second largest religious group after Christians. The role and status of women within Islam is one of essential contribution to its origins and continuation‚ but ever-changing roles. Mohammed could not have founded Islam alone. Marriage to
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The Twentieth century of the Christian era‚ according to our analysis‚ presents a decisive turning point in the history of the Muslim Ummah (community). At the end of the first quarter of the century the state of the Muslim world had taken a definite turn‚ and there were some signs of resuscitation in the moribund body of the Muslim Urnmah. If we look at it closely‚ the middle half of this century presents an astounding picture. On one hand‚ the process of decline and deterioration reached its
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novel’s setting. It is a community with rules‚ and punishments for those who do not follow them like the majority of modern day societies. The government structure‚ however‚ is intertwined with religious concepts and superstition. Africa’s Sokoto Caliphates‚ those who held both secular and religious power‚ started becoming more prominent around Africa into the 1800s‚ as discussed in class.1 Nature also had a profound influence on Nigeria’s culture; the agriculture of the Igbo society was important
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Pakistan’s War On Terror: Up To And Beyond 2014 While Pakistan continues to be a frontline state in the global war on terror‚ it is simultaneously fighting domestic terrorism in a war that will seemingly continue well beyond 2014. In recent months‚ terror attacks targeting the Shia Hazara minority in Baluchistan indicate a transformation of the terror problem in Pakistan. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi present two different sides of Pakistan’s terrorism problem‚ however
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