Islam Essays

     The Islamic and Christian faith often are portrayed as exact opposites; however when one looks deeper into the specifics surrounding each doctrine it is apparent that this statement is not true and that in fact these two faiths have several similarities when speaking of offering forgiveness to others as …

“There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Messenger.” This is the monotheistic creed of Islam which is claimed by its followers to be the original monotheistic religion. Simply translated, this creed means that Allah (God) is the only authority of Islam and He entrusted His sacred texts …

Khaled El Fadl’s article is a clear reminder that Islam, despite its image in the West, is fundamentally a tolerant religion that urges its followers to treat people of other faiths with fairness and acceptance, to meet peace with peace.  It also assumes that the Qur’an’s readers will interpret its …

Introduction Egyptian Islamic Jihad is one of the influential fundamentalists groups in the Middle East. Similar to other terrorist groups, religious intensity of a particularly violent kind is thus as­cribed solely to Islam even when religious feeling is spreading re­markably everywhere. A retreat into religion became the way most Islamic …

Introduction             There was no other field of Islamic scholarship that received the amount of the attention, as that of the exegesis of the Qur’an. This genre had undergone significant evolution since it had begun. Branches of Islamic sciences such as theology and philosophy experienced a decline in its level …

[1]Muslim is one of the fastest growing religions in America and perhaps in the world.  [2]The rate of conversion to Moslem in American is currently thought to stand at 1 million new Moslems every year.  [3]However a bitter relationship between Americans and Muslim in view of the growing anti-American dissent …

America’s declaration on the war against terrorism had received much criticism because while it attempts to prevent the war to be associated with a war against the Islamic religion, most of the countries and groups that were involved in the campaign namely, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and groups like Abu Sayaf …

Introduction             Religious conversion is a reform of identity or self – a change in our belief system and lifestyle.  Snow and Machalek (1984) said that conversion is an experience involves radical personal change…a turning from one viewpoint to another, or a return to principles from which one has strayed. …

            Many thousands of years ago Abraham and his family left Mesopotamia in search of wherever the one true God would take him. Genesis 12 v 1  ‘ Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you’. He and his wife …

            Islam currently has 1.5 billion believers (Williams 453). This number is expected to grow further in the next half a decade because most believers are located in developing nations with higher birth rates. In addition, the Islamic Faith is quickly growing in popularity in traditionally Christian regions, especially North …