Category: Islamic Culture and Politics
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Exploring the Islamic Tradition
The Islamic tradition draws upon the long history of the Abrahamic faiths with the key contention that al’Rasul is the final Messenger Muhammed who received God’s word, completing a line of vahiy, individuals who are divinely inspired but mortal nonetheless that brought God’s word to his special peoples. As the third faith to draw from… Read more
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Sociopolitical Culture of Pre-Islamic Arabia to Early Islamic World
In the period of Islamic history before Al’Rasul, or the final messenger of Allah received his words, Arab culture was centered on kinship ties and collectivist tendencies towards a much larger group of familial relations then typically common in modern Western societies with our espousal of nuclear-family units. One’s kinship helped determine one’s occupation and… Read more
