... court records; however the years from 1184-1210 are almost completely blank. There is one chronically, however, that has the most thorough history of al-Andalus on the market- "Muslim Spain and Portugal" by Hugh Kennedy. A professor at St. Andrews in London, Kennedy has taught generations of ... students about Christian and Muslim Spain and has written the authoritative history of al-Andalus. Therefore, a great deal of information found herein comes from his sources. The conquest of Spain by the Muslims began in the year ... , the conquest of the north-east where they made peace agreeme...

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... will to support either leaders or policies that the agents of such violence find objectionable"(Carr 6). One of the biggest known Terrorist groups today is Al Qaeda, founded by Osama Bin Laden. This global terrorist group has been terrorizing various parts of the world since 1988, their first headquartered base ... in Afghanistan. There hate for the US is justified by Osama's words of their religious jihad. " Al Qaeda believes themselves to be defenders of the "nation" or "kingdom" of Islam generally, and they certainly consider that kingdom to be at war ... and military, and their all...

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... their will to support either leaders or policies that the agents of such violence find objectionable"(Carr 6). One of the biggest known Terrorist groups today is Al Qaeda, founded by Osama Bin Laden. This global terrorist group has been terrorizing various parts of the world since 1988, their first headquartered base in ... Afghanistan. There hate for the US is justified by Osama's words of their religious jihad. " Al Qaeda believes themselves to be defenders of the "nation" or "kingdom" of Islam generally, and they certainly consider that kingdom to be at war with the ... civilian and ...

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... as the Saudi Binladen Group and operating in the construction, engineering, manufacturing and telecommunication industries, it is a multibillion-dollar company owned and operated by the bin Laden family (Wikipedia). Al-Qaeda is operated as an organization with hierarchal methods that are normal operating methods of legal organizations. A young Osama held a managerial position within the family company while attending university (Scheuer ... terrorist acts where the end result would have been calculated. The managerial skills bin Laden acquired through the family business would be equally ...

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... Middle East with its constant political turmoil and its inherited traditional acceptance of terrorism as an expectable alternative to diplomacy is a good example of this reform. Two militant terrorist groups, Al-Jihad and Hezbollah, which relatively have the same goal-the return of Islamic sacred law (Shar'ia), have used the political spectrum to promote its ideology. For example ... act of Jihad. Reviving the use of Jihad by enforcing Ancient Sacred Terror was the premise of his pamphlet. David C. Rapoport states it well in his essay Sacred Terror that Al-Jihad's ultimate objective is ...

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... by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s, consists of groups of Arabs who fought in Afghanistan as volunteers against the Soviet invasion (http://college.hmco.com/currentconflicts). Al Qaeda's main goal is to remove Western influence from Islamic lands through its practice of eliminating American military, cultural and political influence from predominantly Islamic countries in the Middle ... established companies to provide income and charities that act as fronts and protection schemes, credit-card fraud, diamond and drug money (www.terrorismanswers.com/groups/alqaeda.htm). The al Qaeda ne...

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... rules an area larger than the United Kingdom, with increasing territory in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Nigeria. Originating in 1999 and later joining forces with al-Qaeda in 2004, the group, along with other insurgents, formed the Mujahideen Council which in 2006 proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq, or ... ISI. It was then that, due to ideological differences, ISI and al-Qaeda began to diverge. Under the leadership of al-Baghdadi, ISI gained traction after the onset of the Syrian Civil War in March 2011, at which time delegates were sent ... on 29 June 2014, declaring tha...

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... trades among Muslim cities were so active then that a massive trading network was found in the Muslim society. Also, the conversation between Abd al-Rahman and Al-Jahiz (Doc #7) shows that although Muslim cities all played crucial roles in the trading network, every city was distinct and worked as different ... cities in the Post-Classical Age were to provide the Caliph the safety, loyalty and most importantly, political power he required. But although Al-Tabiri was one of the most important sources of early Muslim history, it's unlikely that he was present at all the events he wrote ....

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... the Ancient Greeks, they also examined the records of these people, extended them and corrected them (Stanton, 1953). It was during the era of Caliph Al-Mamun between 813 - 33 C E that we can claim the learning in the Muslim world reached its height with the establishment of a school near ... could be developed to both linear as well as quadratic equations (Zahoor, 1992). Even the term Algebra comes from the book he wrote, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, in which he published trigonometric which included sine functions and calculations from which tangent function where later extrapolated (Zahoo...

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... Saddam Hussein laid a foundation for democracy to be started but also set the groundwork for the rise of ISIS within the nation of Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS, is a group of extremist Sunni jihadists militants who are now known as the most powerful terrorist organization in the world. The rapidly growing threat of ... leaders in the northern part of Iraq, "local tribal leaders are also cooperating, united in their dislike of the Shia-led government in Baghdad of the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki" (Spencer). "This pattern began with the ISIS takeover...

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... but it soon became one of the most symbolic religious buildings to both Jews and Muslims. The Dome of the Rock was built by Abd Al-Malik for many reasons including as a symbol of the Islamic faith, but this building also has many connections to Judaism and building the Dome ... where it was built with architectural features, making it seen as significant icon of the religion ("About The Dome of the Rock"). Abd Al-Malik's intentions did not only revolve around building a destination for a pilgrimage. Many also believe that the Dome of the Rock is meant to be ... Dome of the Rock. He was ...

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... that because of human fitrah, atheism will always be dead. Tawheed uluhhiya is the most crucial in the eyes of Qadhi as well as Ibn Abdul al-Wahhab. This tawheed separates true believers from polytheists. The divinity of god is important in understanding genuine monotheism. The tawheed bil asmaa'i wa siffat has ... attributes and names, and do not feel depressed if you do not know the details of his names and attributes. Ibn Abdul al-Wahhab also stressed the importance of not inquiring into the modality of Allah's attributes and names. Qadhi notes that this categorization is inferred i...

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... " in Bali on the 12th of October 2002, that the authorities finally acknowledge the problem. The main organisation which has been linked to Al Qaeda is Jemaah Islamiyah meaning "Islamic Group" which goal was to form a pan-Southeast Asian Islamic state stretching from Malaysia through Indonesia, ... States extended the campaign of the "war on terror" to Iraq, which were believed to possess "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and strong links with Al Qaeda. Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim nation has consequently had upheavals by Muslims over Malaysia's support on the "war on terror". Following ...

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... states such as the Ayyubid, were small and also easily conquered. This could be down the large part of disunited former lands of salah al-din had already fractured so easily within the century as "rivalries between Shi's and Sunni's bacme increasingly bitter." The Ayyubid state was only ... mentions "Subjecting or eliminating the local princes." The Siege of Baghdad in 1258, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Hulagu was demanding that Al-Musta'sim comply to the terms demanded by Mongke on the Abbasids mentioned in the former paragraph. the Abbasids had failed to prepare for the ... ...

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... separatist group campaigning for independence from Spain and France, but ETA has since categorically denied involvement. There is evidence pointing for and against ETA involvement; Al Qaeda has also been blamed. The meticulous planning and spectacular nature of the bombings follow the hallmarks of Al Qaeda. A tape also has surfaced of a man talking in Moroccan accented Arabic claiming responsibility on behalf of ... Spanish government's gung ho support for the American-led war on terror, and the one thousand Spanish troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. However there is also evidenc...

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... forebears, an artist eventually gave his inspiration free rein; and it was by breaking the rules that he advanced his art. As early as the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun (786-833), competition between calligraphers had given rise to dozens of specialized styles. There was one reserved for the caliph, one for ministers, and yet another for messages ... up Kufic, including the Maghribi script and the many variants derived from it. Thereafter there were two main schools of calligraphy, that of Ibn al-Bawwab (eleventh century), who improved on Ibn Muqla's procedures, and that of al-M...

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... two most important Arabic scholars from the point of view of history of psychology were Avicenna (Arabic name. Ibn Sina, 980-1037) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198). In addition, Al-Kindi (died after 873) was possibly the first Arabic philosopher to expand in depth on the works of Aristotle and is also noted for his theories of optics, which were ... to play a key part in medieval studies of vision (Murray, 1983). In this he was followed by another Arabic Physicist, Alhazen (965-1038). Two famous medical men, Rhazes (al-Razi 860-930) and Haly Abbas (d. 994), propagated the theories of...

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... humanity as human beings. There is a call for change in the community to inform those who make assumptions which jeopardize the lives of American Muslims. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab al- 'Aqeel stated that "Islam is free from this riotous killing, free from this terrorism and free from this kind of corruption" so who are we to blame ... , enforcing of the religion, and the killing of innocent non-combatants (Owen, Terror Is Not Islam). However, terrorist organizations who act in the name of "Allah" such as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS are going against what the Qur'an is sa...

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... employed both domestically and internationally and is a factor in Saudi Arabia's diplomacy and foreign policy. It is also made up of mostly Wahabbis with its founder being Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Wahabbi main focus was to live life based solely on the Quran and through Muhammad's example. They also sought out to convert the world to Islam and were often ... and King Faisal was a protector of the Saudi Arabian holy sites of Islam. Its political system is an absolute monarchy that was founded in 1932 by Abdulaziz bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud and his son has been the ruler since 2005. The...

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... reactions from the Muslim world. On one hand, there were those who were thoroughly convinced of the translated literature and elevated its importance to exalted heights, like the Abbasid Caliph Al Mamun. Mamun was greatly affected with these new Philosophical ideas and promoted them in each manner possible, to the extent that he was able to declare that reason and not ... necessity on a divinely inspired and sinless (masum) Imam. The Imam possesses Knowledge (Ilm) and a perfect understanding of the Quran as well as the religious law (sharia)".[Dia]3 SUNNI SUFISM: Al-Ghazali was mainly r...

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... it in the form of suicide bombers or chemical and biological attacks. The perpetrators of these attacks are believed to be Islamic Fundamentalists, working for Osama Bin Laden's terror network, Al-Qaeda. But the question that arises from the September 11th attacks is why? This essay will investigate will analyze why the attacks took place, focusing on the push of globalisation ... also focus on the long-term effects of the attacks on September 11th. The movement believed to be behind the attacks on Tuesday, September 11th is believed to be the Al-Qaeda network, headed by Osama Bin Laden...

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... a theme that focuses on what people cannot see from the outside of the structure. "Hidden architecture may be considered the main and dominant form of true Islamic architecture- (Grube et al, 11). Defining elements of decoration (otherwise known as hidden architecture') and design, in addition to the focus they put on the structure, are what make Islamic architecture unique and different ... art; it is one of the unifying factors that, for thirteen centuries, have linked buildings and objects from all over the Islamic world across an enormous geographic span. (Grube et al, 161) Islam tr...

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... them only sexually and domestically (Okin, p 18). Women are mere objects for men to abuse and no one can stop them. Azizah Al-Hibri, in her article, says that Okin gets her material for the essay from secondary sources (Al-Hibri, p 42) so it has already been biased and is not the whole truth but rather pieces of it. "Okin attributes to ... excuse for cruelty and violations- of rights against minorities. (p 36). Since it is a cultural practice, I believe it can be altered. If it were a religious practice it would be more difficult. Al-Hibri says that there is no cultural or religious exc...

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... advance the Ottoman culture. They attempted to restore Constantinople to prominence. They built mosques and palaces and constructed buildings based on architectural advances derived from their Byzantine heritage. (Stearns et al., 2004) They encouraged thought and creativity by building schools and hospitals. Thus, the empire was abundant with authors, artists, artisans, and other skilled civilians. The sultans established an ... were able to mobilize huge armies, the Turks did not need labor saving field artillery. Instead they focused their innovations on creating siege weapons to pen...

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... seem to conflict between Islam and Christianity; specifically those of women. Most of the Christian world thinks Muslim women are treated as property and have few rights. According to www.al-islam.org this is not true; "Islam equalizes men and women on the following issues: creation, religious obligations, honor, and dignity. The Holy Qur"an declares that men and women ... the religions that should not exist. Many would ask, "If the Muslim religion is so peaceful then why are so many terrorist groups fighting in its name?" How can the Al Queta bombings on September 11, 2001 which killed...

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