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What is Islam?

Islam is one of the world's major monotheistic religions, centered on submission to Allah and the teachings preserved in its sacred texts. Students across religious studies, history, political science, and humanities courses write about Islam because it raises enduring questions about faith, law, culture, and power. Its historical reach across the Middle East and beyond makes it academically rich, touching on theology, civilization, gender, and governance in ways that invite sustained critical analysis.

The papers archived on this topic reflect several distinct approaches. Comparative essays are especially common, placing Islam alongside Christianity and Judeo-Christian traditions to examine shared and divergent beliefs, practices, and historical development. Historical analyses explore events such as the split between Sunni and Shi'ite traditions, as well as the broader arc of Middle Eastern civilization. Other papers take a thematic approach, examining concepts like predestination and free will within Islamic thought, the influence of Islam on Middle Eastern literature, or the relationship between Islam and democracy. The role of women in Muslim life and the political dimensions of religion also appear as recurring focal points.

A strong essay on Islam begins with a precise, arguable thesis rather than a broad statement about the religion as a whole. Evidence drawn from specific historical events, doctrinal distinctions, or cultural practices carries far more weight than generalizations about what Muslims believe. Comparative essays benefit from identifying a clear analytical framework before listing similarities and differences. The most common pitfall is treating Islam as a monolithic tradition; acknowledging internal diversity — across regions, sects, and historical periods — demonstrates the analytical depth that strong academic writing requires.

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Islamic Art at LACMA: Qur'an Leaves and Ancient Ewer

One of the strengths of the collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is collection of works from the ancient Near East. This paper examines two of those artifacts, discussing both their aesthetics properties…

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Islam and the West: Huntington's Clash of Civilizations

World civilization has known in the last decades some of the most important political, economic, and in particular cultural developments of the 20th century. The era after the end of the Cold War determined a series of…

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Origins, Ideology, and Low Recruitment in Islamic Terrorism

¶ … Terrorism and the Low Numbers of Practicing Terrorists

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Haitian Vodou, Religion, and Lived Experience in Urban America

Religion is truly a lived experience. In today's volatile world, with world events hinging on various interpretations of religious texts perhaps more than in any other time in human history save, perhaps, during the…

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Tylor vs. Frazer: Competing Accounts of Religion's Origins

Overall, it appears as though Frazer's accounting of religion is more plausible than that of Tylor. This fact is largely true because the former's is more applicable to contemporary religions than the latter's is. An analysis of Pal's work regarding both of these author's viewpoint in Seven Theories of Religion readily confirms this thesis.

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Islam in the Age of Globalization: Challenges and Identity

Thus, it is not really a matter of whether globalization will continue to affect the Islamic world – that is a given fact. In 2003, for example, over 900 Muslim scholars and theologians met in Malaysia to ponder a simple question: what is the role of Islam in the era of globalization? Over 70 countries were represented, and through three days of intense debate and scholarly presentations one theme emerged: globalization has forced Islam into a crisis of introspection and the necessity to proactively deal with the Western world

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Byzantine Empire and Islam: From Iconoclasm to the Crusades

The interaction of the Byzantine empire with the Islamic world from the time of the later Iconoclast Emperors to the Crusades is largely characterized by a struggle for power and dominance.

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How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Critical Review

Fee and Stuart in "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth", show the applicability of the Bible and provide readers with the tools of applying the Bible to their contemporary lives. For them there is no "then and there" to the text, rather than "then and there" of the text can equitably be applied to the "here and now" of contemporaneous living. The authors in effect build two bridges; there is the bridge between Church and lay man and the bridge between Church and exegetical scholar. Whilst the exegetical scholar approaches the text from the past trying to see ‘what it meant", the author tell us that the text is far more than that: it is applicable not only for the "then" but also for the "now" and, therefore, people should approach it with the intent of ‘what does it mean" and "what will it mean". In other words, each of us, regardless of scholarly background, should connect the '''then and there' of the original text to the 'here and now' of our own life settings" (p. 10). The operative premise is that the texts of the living Word "mean what they meant" (p. 11).

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Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: West African Kingdoms and Slavery

The discovery of the New World opened new markets for European colonizers, as well as new sources wealth. In the Americas, the rich and abundant land meant much wealth could be generated through industries such as…

The Hajj: Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca Explained

This paper examines in a general matter Islam and Pilgrimage. It beings by offering a summary of what Islam is and what pilgrimage means. Then, it examines the various aspects of pilgrimage, including the differentiations between different sects and different cities.

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