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Afford To Pay Heroin Addicts
2,057 wordsAdding to Pakistan's Misery, a Heroin EpidemicRaees Khan sleeps most nights on a pillow of dust. His home is a median strip along the busy Liaquadabad Road, across from a mosque. A little before dawn a loudspeaker announces the first call to prayer, a reminder to the holy that before Allah all men are naught. This noisy summons fails to awaken Mr. Khan. Though a Muslim, he does not pray five times a day. Other rituals command him: emptying a tiny bag of heroin into a plastic bottle cap, adding w...
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The Importance Of Ibn Khaldun In Islam
1,766 wordsIn the modern world Islam is seen as many things, but rarely is it viewed as a source of inspiration and enlightenment. Though it is a force of enlightenment and it is not only verses of the Quran that testify to that fact, but also the great body of scholarship produced during the middle Ages. While Europe was in the midst of darkness, it was the Muslims, spurred on by the light of their new Deen who picked up the torch of scholarship and science. It was the Muslims who preserved the knowledge ...
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Religious Tolerance Ottoman Empire
1,055 wordsAll empires constantly evolve, declining and rising in status. Many empires have collapsed, only to start again under a different name. Like all empires, the three Muslim Empires, the Ottomans, Safavid's, and Mughals have faced this inevitable state. Although each individual empire is different, they each have similarities in their reasons for decline. Whether it is social, religious, economic, or political reasons, the empires, like many others, have fallen. The Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman...
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U S Government Terrorist Threat
806 wordsWhy We Should Hunt Terrorist in Pakistan Pakistan and Al-Qa " ida (International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders) became one of the most worrying issues of the day. As far as struggle with terrorism is the matter of primary importance, more and more often Americans start coming to conclusion that the U. S. should enter Pakistan and pursue Al-Qa " ida. So, why should the U. S. government do it? The necessity of entering Pakistan seems to be obvious. Logically, if there is n...
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Stjepan Tomas Kotromanic Fleur De Lys Arms
1,341 wordsThe origin of the arms with the argent between 6 fleur-de-lys, which is now on the flag of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, has long puzzled me, but they are in fact the arms of the Kotromanic family, which ruled Bosnia in the 14 th and 1 5 th centuries. Other arms have also been attributed to Bosnia in the 19 th century. I finally thought of a way to get at this question of the origin of the current Bosnian flag: numismatics, of course. I found a book by one Ivan Rengjeo, Corpus der mittel-a...
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Shah Abbas Reign Islamic Arts London Phaidon Mosque
899 wordsThe Great Shah Abbas and His Buildings in Isfahan The Great Shah Abbas I reigned from 1588 - 1629. He was a ruler who relocated the capital from Saljuq to Isfahan, in the center of the country. This was his attempt to centralize political and religious authority, develop capital, and institute Safavid Iran as a world power, both economically and politically. Shah Abbas began his renovations with the transformation of the little Timurid palace into the Ali Qapu, or sublime port an entrance to the...
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Trevor Le Gassick Midaq Alley Mahfouz
541 wordsMidaq Alley Book Review Naguib Mahfouz is the author of the book Midaq Alley that was translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. First published in 1966, Midaq Alley displays a historical period of Egypt in the most intimate sense as it is persisted through the lives of the characters that inhabit the alley. Although the book is set in the early forties it possesses a taste of eternity as the reader watches the characters struggle through questions of morality, ethics, and traditions. (The ans...
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Ottoman Empire N Pag
1,106 wordsComparison and Difference Between Great Indian Rulers The three great rulers from the three great empire (Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal) that I focused on are Suleyman the Magnificent, Shah Abbas, and Akbar. The similarity between these three rulers is vast. They all were contributed somehow to there empire and were praised for this by the people. They all either tried to expand the empire or did so in a tremendous way. Finally, they all enriched their empires by making them known and feared thro...
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18 Th Century Jean Baptiste
1,152 wordsThe supermarket of history The Siege of Isfahan Jean-Christophe Rufin, trans Willard Wood 373 pp, Picador In Letter 72 of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes, which was published in 1721, a Persian nobleman who has travelled from Isfahan to Paris meets a Frenchman who was extremely satisfied with himself. In a quarter of an hour he had decided three questions of ethics, four problems of history, and five scientific matters. I mentioned Persia to him, but I had hardly uttered four words when he contra...
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