... , decision-making regarding bioethics and their world view is based on a value system that is derived from revelation and tradition (Bioethics for clinicians: Islamic Bioethics). The Qur'an comprehends the complete code to the laws and values of Islamic culture based on the ethical ... teachings and tradition written by the Prophet Muhammad. The Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet have laid down detailed and specific ethical guidelines ... preventing illness, physicians understand the duty to strive to heal, acknowledging God as the ultimate healer. It is not uncommon that Muslims ...

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... entity that lasted 632 to 1924, is singularly notable. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi claims to be a descendant of the tribe of the prophet Muhammad, thereby aligning himself with this grand tradition dating back to the 7th century. There are, according to ISIS theology and ideology, 12 caliphs that will be on this earth; al-Baghdadi is believed to be the 8th ... , Richard Barrett, thus suggests "that jihadists tend to be disaffected, aimless, and lacking a sense of identity or belonging."19 Similar extremist tendencies are manifest within the Christian faith tradition. One such organization, name...

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... reached a high degree of perfection in the Islamic world, where representational art was spurned and Arabic script offered rich possibilities for creative fantasy (Art of Islam: Language and Meaning, 47). Oral tradition was paramount among the Arabs in pre-Islamic days, and poets were the memory of their tribe. Then the Arabs felt the need to write down their stories, first simply ... ...

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... to Mecca they would also know to pray. Islamic Poetry: Poetry and music were seen as equal to Islamic and local bards or wandering minstrels were the keepers of popular oral verse tradition. Bedouin minstrels had song themes of romantic love, warfare and nomadic life, with a signal rhyme dominating the entire poem. Poetry to Muslims was important in there worship and came ... ...

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... reason to set his words down in some definite form. After the sudden death of Mohammed in 632, Caliph Abu Bakr ordered one of the prophets companions to collect, from oral and written sources, all of Mohammed's utterances (Quran page 225). They were written in the Quran which is basically the "Muslim Bible". The Quran is the written version of the ... teachings that Mohammed preached while he was alive. A second source of guidance for most Muslims is al-Hadith (Tradition), a vast body of transmitted stories of what the Prophet said or did or what was said or done in his presence and so ...

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... of al-Andalus is somewhat limited. No Arabic accounts of the invasion have survived, and the only information that exists has been passed down in the form of anecdotes and oral histories. These stories come from the Arab side of the takeover, and since only this history has survived, one must assume there was great controversy of how the invasion actually ... conquest is well documented in Arabic. It tells the story of Count Julian of Ceuta. He sent his daughter to the royal Visigoth court to complete her education, as was tradition for nobility at the time. At the court, she was raped ...

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... . He led the Hebrew people, as ordered by God, out of Egypt, freed them from slavery, and led them to the Promised Land. The Old Testament was first told in oral tradition and was later collected and written down over centuries primarily in Hebrew. The second book of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. Similarly to the Old Testament, the New ... ...

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