The Delhi sultanate did not promote a significant cultural revival in India, aside from a degree of mixed Indian and Muslim painting, architecture, and clothing styles. ... Around 1300 AD, Arab and Muslim traders were gaining increasing significance in Southeast Asian trade. ... A new trade route was established, that traveled across the Sahara to Muslim North Africa, thanks to the domestication of the camel. ... The leaders of this new kingdom favored Islam, and employed Islamic bureaucrats and popularized Arabic script, furthering the majority of Islamic culture. ... Mali was seen as one of ...

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By the 1950s there was nearly 1 million, who had taken the best land and jobs, not caring for the needs of the other 9 million Muslim Algerians. ... Qaddafi formed a socialist government and tried to spread his different idea of nationalism to other parts of Africa and the Muslim world. ... In a free election in 1992, the people of Algeria elected to the national legislature a majority of candidates who favored strict Islamic laws and values. ... Then military leaders took control of Algeria and banned the Islamic movement and arrested many of its members. The insurmountable tension betwee...

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"It existed before the beginning of Christianity and Islam. ... Female circumcision occurs among Muslims, Christians, and Islam's, although no religion requires it. ... The sources of the Islamic faith are found in the Qur"an (Muslim scripture), the Hadith (teachings of the Prophet Mohammed), the consensus of the entire Islamic community, and the ijihad (Islamic interpretations of Islamic law). ... In addition to the Islamic religion, other African religious groups practice female circumcision. ... Rejecting the argument that the practice is promoted by Islam, the court reasoned, "C...

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While it is mostly practiced in muslim countries, some may be surprised that it's not isolated to such areas; rather, it has been reported in lower Africa and Asia as well, where the muslim religion is much harder to find among the local inhabitants. ... There are no figures to show how common female genital mutilation is in Asian countries, but the practice has been reported in Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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