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    Impact of Islam on West Africa Islam impacted West Africa in many ways. It changed the people’s views of their rulers‚ and in some people‚ even the way they viewed the world. Other aspects stayed the same‚ like the beliefs of the pagan people and how they lived. The most important connection that Islam made globally was the establishment of trading centers and routes. When Muslims brought Islam into West Africa from across the Sahara‚ Africans were attracted to it because it helped them through

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    of 2012‚ Islam was the second largest religion under christianity with 1.3 billion followers.(http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/comparison_charts/islam_judaism_christianity. htm)The Islamic belief was not always this big though. It originated like most other religions as a group of a few select followers under a founding leader. After many years though‚ the religions popularity began to grow among many civilizations. The Islam religion spread very rapidly leading to many social‚ political‚ and economic

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    Cultural Impact by Islam

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    to form a dominate society that had great impacts in lands such as India and Turkey. These empires were influenced both culturally and politically by the effects of the Islamic faith. The cultural aspects of these empires‚ such as architecture and poetry‚ as well as political aspects‚ such as the right to rule‚ were all influenced by Islam. Articles 1‚ 4‚ and 5 represent the cultural impacts of Islam while articles 2 and 3 show the political impact of Islam. A document from a commoner would show a

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    The emergence of Islam in South Asia‚ West Africa‚ and Europe between 1000 and 1750 CE changed the way these regions developed. It affected them culturally‚ economically‚ and politically and many different ways. During this time period‚ Europe changed in their forms of architecture‚ trading‚ and rulers into more Islamic ways. They also saw many new inventions. However they never changed the way they practiced Catholicism. In West Africa‚ they improved trade and made new trading centers but stayed

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    ESSAY Islam is the second largest religion on Earth today‚ having 23% of the world following it; very close to Christianity‚ which has 33%. It has been around 1400 years since the beginning of Islam‚ and since then‚ it’s been spreading. Islam is appealing to people‚ because of its belief in one god‚ the role of women and their privileges‚ its views on every person being equal in God’s eyes‚ and other religious ideologies. From the years 1000 to 1750 C.E.‚ Islam most influenced West Africa‚ South

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    Islam and the West: Conflict‚ Democracy‚ Identity Akeel Bilgrami‚ Columbia University This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some

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    Topic: Culturaleconomic‚ and political impact of Islam on South and Southeast Asia between 1000CE and 1750 CE. Situation at Beginning of Era |Invading Turkish conquerors had brutal and oppressive|Art and culture in South and Southeast Asia was | | |reigns over non-Muslims‚ destroying Hindu and |predominantly unaffected by Islam in terms of style | | |Buddhist temples‚ kidnapping

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    History of West Africa

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    HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in

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    The adoption of Christianity and Islam greatly shaped the development of ancient Africa. The introduction of both religious also affected state formation in Africa. Some states identified with Islam‚ while others pursued Christianity as the prominent religion. Islam expanded through the trade routes‚ making a specific impact in West Africa and the Sudan. With the arrival of Europeans‚ Christianity was already present in Ethiopia. Both religions are still present in current African culture. In the

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    Islam Vs. The West

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    Islam VS The West Westerners tend to think of Islamic societies as backward- looking‚ oppressed by religion‚ and inhumanely governed‚ comparing them to their own enlightened‚ secular democracies. But measurement of the cultural distance between the West and Islam is a complex undertaking‚ and that distance is narrower than they assume. Islam is not just a religion‚ and certainly not just a fundamentalist political movement. When people think of Islam they think of all the crazy beliefs and a religion

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