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The Impact Of Religious Ritual Initiation On Males, David McMillan 2021 Regis University

The Impact Of Religious Ritual Initiation On Males, David Mcmillan

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The following paper is focused on revealing the influence that religious ritual initiations/rites of passages have on males from the religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. In the first section of the paper, I explain why it is important that the influence that religious ritual initiations have on males be studied. The second section covers the literature that was used to obtain my research results. The third section explains how the methodologies of content analysis and semiotics were incorporated into my research. In the fourth section, I reveal that practices such as self-control and discipline are common traits in how …


Workings Of Theocracy: The Historical Function And Modern Applicability Of Charitable Endowments, Nuh Elalaoui 2021 Rollins College

Workings Of Theocracy: The Historical Function And Modern Applicability Of Charitable Endowments, Nuh Elalaoui

Honors Program Theses

Historically, various systems and institutions across diverse civilizations have been established to meet the many needs that interweave the fabric of society. One, and perhaps the most significant of these institutions is the waqf/hubus system. Characterized by the designation of a property or revenue stream as mortmain and the investment of the usufruct for the benefit of (often predetermined) beneficiaries, this form of charitable endowment is hailed as a cornerstone of Islamic civilization. The objectives of this paper are threefold. Primarily, it examines the historical role of awqāf, with focus on their social and economic significance in two distinct Islamic …


Characteristics, Traits And Proofs Of Prophethood Of The Prophet Mohammad, Peace Be Upon Him, In Surat Al-Tawbah, Dr. Ali Sayour 2021 Imam Malik College for Sharia and Law

Characteristics, Traits And Proofs Of Prophethood Of The Prophet Mohammad, Peace Be Upon Him, In Surat Al-Tawbah, Dr. Ali Sayour

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

The research aims to highlight the characteristics of the Prophet, peace be upon him, his traits, and proofs of his prophethood in Surat Al-Tawbah. Its name indicates God’s forgiveness of the prophet, as mentioned in the verse (Allah has forgiven the prophet). Moreover, the prophethood is mentioned many times through its topics. This Surah clarifies the status of the prophethood and the dignity of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him through defending him and judging those who mocked his noble honor to be infidels and threatening them with painful punishment. Moreover, this research reviewed other characteristics and features mentioned …


The Necessity Of Transcending The Binary Division Of The World Into Islam And Disbelief: A Contemporary Perspective., Dr. Mahmoud Ismaeil Mohamed Mashal 2021 Imam Malik College for Sharia and Law

The Necessity Of Transcending The Binary Division Of The World Into Islam And Disbelief: A Contemporary Perspective., Dr. Mahmoud Ismaeil Mohamed Mashal

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

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Controls And Obstacles Of Justice In The Holy Qur’An An Objective Study, Dr. Ali Abdul aziz Sayour 2021 Imam Malik College for Sharia and Law

Controls And Obstacles Of Justice In The Holy Qur’An An Objective Study, Dr. Ali Abdul Aziz Sayour

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

Justice is one of the primary aims of Sharia and a moral value in every time and place. It is the millstone around which ideas, people, nations and groups revolve. God sent messengers with holy books to teach people the meaning of justice in order to achieve it. This paper reviews approaches followed to command people to achieve justice whether clearly or through interpretation, in addition to reward and punishment approaches. It classifies the controls into physical and psychological. The research draws attention to many factors that affect the achievement of justice whether apparent or hidden. It is important to …


Ziba, Ziba, Sherianne Schow, Brandi Kilmer, Heather Oman 2021 Ziba

Ziba, Ziba, Sherianne Schow, Brandi Kilmer, Heather Oman

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Ziba, a promising medical student, fled Afghanistan in 2018 due to instability and for her safety. Life was difficult upon arrival in the United States. In Afghanistan Ziba was involved in national and international poetry, math and science competitions. Ziba went from having everything to starting completely over in a new country. Her anxiety and depression became extremely difficult to deal with She reminded herself who she was, what her passions were and in January 2019 started medical school while working part time as a cashier. Her hope for future arriving refugees is to have a mental health network established …


Isbanban Foundation Volunteers During The Covid-19pandemic: Activities & Innovation, Ariza Bima Putra, Puspitasari Puspitasari 2021 School of Strategic and Global Studies, Universitas Indonesia

Isbanban Foundation Volunteers During The Covid-19pandemic: Activities & Innovation, Ariza Bima Putra, Puspitasari Puspitasari

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

ISBANBAN is an educational driving foundation in Banten that arranges programs to achieve curriculum goals in schools through 21st Century Skill that elaborates and encourages the ability of fostered to master the skills of Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity for children aged 4 - 12 years old. Since the Covid-19 pandemic and the adoption of large-scale social restrictions and physical distancing by the government, this affected the voluntary activities carried out at Isbanban Foundation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to obtain information about the ISBANBAN volunteers activities in Banten during this covid-19 pandemic, as well as innovative …


Hate Speech In Election 2019: Case Study Of Youth Organizations, Harsih Setiawandari, Adis Imam Munandar 2021 School Of Strategic and Global Studies University Of Indonesia

Hate Speech In Election 2019: Case Study Of Youth Organizations, Harsih Setiawandari, Adis Imam Munandar

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

Technology advance such as social media utilization to communicate, to express opinions, to interact with each other, and to discover and share information, but this also has its own susceptive. Its positive effect, social media can be used to accelerate the spreading of information, but the negative effects are the spreading of radical ideas, hate speech, hoaxes, etc. which can threaten the national defense and the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia. This research used complex models and a limited amount of samples so that in the data analysis using Smart-PLS software. Smart-PLS using the bootstrapping methods or random multiplication. …


Islamic Bussiness Concept In Facing Moral Hazard Of Mudharabah Financing In Indonesia Islamic Banking (Perspective: Asymetric Information Theory), Ummu Sholihah, Nur Fatwa 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Islamic Bussiness Concept In Facing Moral Hazard Of Mudharabah Financing In Indonesia Islamic Banking (Perspective: Asymetric Information Theory), Ummu Sholihah, Nur Fatwa

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

In the contract of financing much-needed information asymmetry between the owners of capital (shahibul mall) and the manager of the capital (mudharib) in order to achieve common interests. One of the indicators that lead to moral hazard is due to asymmetric information or dissimilarity of information provided, and influential in the contract of financing. In a Mudharabah financing contract, between shahibul mall and mudharib provide information asymmetry in favor of the creation of a common interest. This study is a literature with an approach that combines the philosophical and phenomenological approach to look deeply about the …


The Role Of Islam In Establishing Women's Rights In The Muslim World, Assad Khan 2021 University of Central Florida

The Role Of Islam In Establishing Women's Rights In The Muslim World, Assad Khan

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This paper examines the literature surrounding women's rights in the Muslim world to determine the factors that have contributed to the oppression of women in the Muslim world and to understand the role that different interpretations of Islam can have on either restricting or improving the status of women in the Muslim world. The practices of Muslim people as a population deviate from what is prescribed by Islam in some cases, contributing to the misconception that the restrictive practices toward women in many Muslim-majority countries are founded in Islamic teachings. Factors such as individual levels of religiosity and adherence to …


The Doctrinal Basis Of Islamic Utterances Associated With Domestic Assaults, William Andrew Arthur Gawthrop 2021 Walden University

The Doctrinal Basis Of Islamic Utterances Associated With Domestic Assaults, William Andrew Arthur Gawthrop

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractBetween March 1977, and February 2020, there have been 78 instances of ideologically motivated murders and attempted murders in the United States. These instances were characterized as individual-based attacks against other individuals and treated as local crime. However, in each instance, there were indications of Islamic religious overtones characterized by Islamic religious utterances made by the attackers. The overall problem addressed in this study was the lack of research on the utterances associated with religiously based autonomous self-actualization resulting in homicides and assaults: jihad applied as street crime. The key research questions are: What are the utterances associated with Islamic-based …


Expatriate Middle Eastern Muslim Mothers’ Stories About Sex Education In U.S. Schools: Communication Privacy Challenges And Narrative Typologies, Nada Alfeir 2021 Michigan Technological University

Expatriate Middle Eastern Muslim Mothers’ Stories About Sex Education In U.S. Schools: Communication Privacy Challenges And Narrative Typologies, Nada Alfeir

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This study examines the stories of expatriate Middle Eastern Muslim (EMEM) mothers in the U.S. about how they talked with their children about the sexual education classes offered in U.S. public schools. Three concepts from the Communication Privacy Management theory (CPM; Petronio, 2002) were adapted to an interpretive narrative perspective drawn on Frank's (2013) typology of narrative types. A total of 15 EMEM mothers who had lived for more than one year in the U.S. were recruited in the study. Qualitative data were collected through written stories and interviews, and supplemented by the author's observations. All written stories and interviews …


Methodology Of Al-'Izz Bin 'Abd Al-Salam Regarding The Sources Of Islamic Jurisprudence, Methods Of Derivation And Its Jurstic Impact: A Study On Chapter Of Al-Tasarrufat, Hesham Atta Mohamed Mahgoub Ibrahim 2021 Universiti Malaya

Methodology Of Al-'Izz Bin 'Abd Al-Salam Regarding The Sources Of Islamic Jurisprudence, Methods Of Derivation And Its Jurstic Impact: A Study On Chapter Of Al-Tasarrufat, Hesham Atta Mohamed Mahgoub Ibrahim

Student Works (2020-2029)

In term of outstanding, imam al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam surpassed other scholars of his time. With reference to al-Shafi'i school, He was the ultimate authority to the school. This status has been testified by his student such as al-Qarafi, Ibn Daqiq al-'Id, and other scholars of his time recognised him the imam. Al-Subki also aknowledged his leadership through his writings. In term of outstanding works, Imam al-Izz bin Abd al-Salam produced books related to the rulings of evidence, namely al-Imam fi Bayan Adillah al-Ahkam, Qawa'd al-Ahkam and Majaz al-Qur'an in order to elaborate the evidence, its methodology and rulings deduction. …


Son Of Esther, Shah Of The Persian Empire: The Judeo-Islamic-Persian Tapestry Of Ardashirnameh’S Miniature Paintings, Gilad Bendavid 2021 CUNY City College

Son Of Esther, Shah Of The Persian Empire: The Judeo-Islamic-Persian Tapestry Of Ardashirnameh’S Miniature Paintings, Gilad Bendavid

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Yolkkh: The Story Of My People, Amna Zelimkha Yandarbin 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Yolkkh: The Story Of My People, Amna Zelimkha Yandarbin

Theses and Dissertations

The name of my project is: Yolkkh, The Story of My People. With this project I present a series of scarves each one bearing an illustrated scene in order to tell a story – my story and the story of the Noxci people. Noxci are the people who are referred to as “Chechens” by Russians and are generally known by that title. As a Muslim, I have witnessed the way Western media tend to dehumanize my community. In order to contrast this dehumanizing process, I thought that telling the story of my family would help reverse Islamophobic tendencies and raise …


An Artistic Expression Of The Connection Between “Man And The Universe” In The Works By Suhrаb Sipehri, Nargiza Shoaliyeva, Safar ABDULLOH 2020 INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC ACADEMY OF UZBEKISTAN, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Lecturer Department of the Uzbek language and oriental classical literature

An Artistic Expression Of The Connection Between “Man And The Universe” In The Works By Suhrаb Sipehri, Nargiza Shoaliyeva, Safar Abdulloh

The Light of Islam

The poet and writer Sohrab Sipehri (1928-1980) played a particular role in the formation and development of Iranian poetry at the beginning of the twentieth century. This poet created his style of expression and was an enlightened person who provided a holistic connection of modern philosophical views with orthodox ideas. He was a philosopher-poet, an artistic thinker who was able to give the contemporary content of the interpretation of theories of «Unity» - («wahdat al-wujud») and «Perfect man» - («komil inson») in the traditional system of mystical views. As a great writer he created a new set of poetic emblems …


Theological Discourse Through The Prism Of The Interpretation Of “Al-Fatiha” In The Tafsir Of Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi “Ta’Wilat Ahl As-Sunnah”, Ravil Adygamov 2020 senior researcher at the Sh. Marjani Institute of history of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russian Federation

Theological Discourse Through The Prism Of The Interpretation Of “Al-Fatiha” In The Tafsir Of Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi “Ta’Wilat Ahl As-Sunnah”, Ravil Adygamov

The Light of Islam

To identify the problems of Tafsir was applied to the method of analysis. It revealed the main methodology of the work, its sources and features, as well as the main issues of Islamic law and faith in the interpretation of Surah al-Fatiha. In particular, it was revealed that the theologian raised issues related to the “Basmallah”, the obligation to read al-Fatih in prayer, divine attributes, and istita’a. This made it possible to compare the Tafsir al-Maturidi with the well-known Tafsir at-Tabari and revealed that the frst one is no less signifcant in its content than the second one. The synthesis …


The Architectural Epigraphy Of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Tariqah In Central Asia In The Xviii-Xix Centuries, Mekhrojiddin Amonov 2020 fellow scientist of the Imam Bukhari International scientifc research center

The Architectural Epigraphy Of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Tariqah In Central Asia In The Xviii-Xix Centuries, Mekhrojiddin Amonov

The Light of Islam

This article examines the architectural and epigraphic monuments associated with the history of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi tariqah in the 18th-19th centuries. Information about this tariqah is obtained based on epigraphic data. The article contains information about the murshids who carried out their activities within the “Suf Allahyar” and “Musakhonkhodja Dahbedi” branches of the Central Asian Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi tariqah in the 18th- 19th centuries, as well as information about architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions directly related to them. It also provides valuable information about the activities of the murshids of the tariqah Qamariddin Khuzari and Mavlono Mirmuhammad Ibrahim Khodja Samarqandi, as well as …


About Medieval Egyptian Historians, Zukhra Aripova 2020 INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC ACADEMY ОF UZBEKISTAN, doctor of Philosophy (Phd), docent of the department “Al-Azhar department of Arabic language and literature”

About Medieval Egyptian Historians, Zukhra Aripova

The Light of Islam

This article is dedicated to the life and work of historians of the Mamluk period (1250-1517) in Egypt and the rich heritage left by them. In the XIII-XV centuries, Egypt had a special place among the countries of the Middle East due to the activities of the Mamluks. The prestige of the Mamluk sultans increased due to their victories in the fght against the Crusaders and the Mongols in the Middle East. The establishment of Mamluk rule in the history of Egypt, the growth of the superiority of military Mamluks in the country, the rise of the Bakhrit Mamluk sultans …


Yunini Copy Of Sahih Al-Bukhari, Feruz Kholmuminov, Oybek Sotvoldiev 2020 INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC ACADEMY ОF UZBEKISTAN Center for scientifc research and innovation projects

Yunini Copy Of Sahih Al-Bukhari, Feruz Kholmuminov, Oybek Sotvoldiev

The Light of Islam

Among the collections of hadiths, the work of Imam al-Bukhari “Sahih al-Bukhari” is recognized as the most reliable book of hadiths. From the history of the creation of the work, it is known that Imam al-Bukhari created this work with great patience and perseverance for 16 years. It should be noted that the ideal and perfect state in which it has come down to our days is the result of the enormous work put into it. This process consisted of several stages. At the frst stage, several storytellers listened to “Sahih” from Imam Bukhari himself and wrote the book directly …


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