Sentences with phrase «islamic cultures»

The destruction across the Middle East, starting with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001, has been a systematic demonization and humiliation of the people and their ancient and now present Islamic cultures.

All that has changed as six film installations and sixteen related photographs investigating the intensities of women's lives in strict Islamic cultures are on view in Montreal.

Neshat, who was born in Iran and moved to the United States in 1978, at the age of 17, is highly acclaimed for her films, photographs, and videos that explore the experience of women living in contemporary and traditional Islamic cultures.

Just as language serves as a visual binder in many Islamic cultures, so it does in Mr. Koraichi's formally diverse but completely of - a-piece show, «Love Side by Side With the Soul,» at Aicon Gallery.

From Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism».9

The so - called «Operation Trojan Horse» letter, which came to light in March, purported to outline a template on how schools could be pushed into adopting more Islamic cultures.

In addition to Roman - Jewish and Byzantine layers, there are also strata present reflecting a variety of the many Islamic cultures that have ruled the city between the Umayyad and Ottoman periods (seventh to twentieth centuries).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most Islamic cultures also follow the Western tradition of 40 days or 6 weeks.

Thus the Chinese and Islamic cultures lived together in harmony and tolerance.

Similar and better - known movements have emerged among people in Islamic cultures.

Whether it's a law in Islamic cultures or cultural expectations in Western ones, the outcome is the same: the oppression of women.

What the west has experienced that the Middle East (and therefore Islamic cultures) did not experience was the 17th - 18th century Age of Reason (also known as the Age of Enlightenment).

The pair competed in long - sleeves and long - pants in observance of Egypt's Islamic culture of modesty, a significant contrast to the bikini - style uniforms that has long been associated with the sport; Elghobashy also sported a hijab covering her hair, which was permitted after a last - minute decision from the International Volleyball Federation following a request by African Volleyball Confederation chairperson Amr Elmany.

where on earth do you value islamic culture and tradtion?

oh yes because they want to handle the body in line with islamic culture and tradtions... oh plz stop that.

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

His proposal is for a future of increasing secularization that does not bring with it a profanation of Islamic culture, with the result that Islam will be seen as not only compatible with but strongly supportive of reason, freedom, and democracy.

Finally, we must remember that although some of the Islamic people of the Arab and African countries have attained their independence, only after all of them have become free can they proceed to the next stage of security, peace, and prosperity which is so necessary for the growth of Islamic culture.

Then we can expect Islamic culture to flourish again.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

It is apparent from what has been said that when education and civilization flourished in the Muslim world the distinctively religious aspects of Islamic culture were exalted, and when the civilization was weakened and stagnated religion also suffered.

Although we are dealing here with the Islamic culture of the Arab and African countries, it is our contention that the diversities found in Islam are not due to variations in geographic environments or to different civilizations, but are due only to recognized sectarian differences.

Because the cultural, social, and political conditions were favorable and their religion was being challenged, the Islamic culture in Iraq and Egypt reached a high level.

Ancient Islamic culture of the golden age of the Abbasids attained a high level of development before it fell into a period of decline similar to the decline of the Greek, Chinese, and Persian cultures.

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

During the last century two men appeared who were destined to change the direction of Islamic culture — Jamal ad - Din al - Afghani (died 1315; AD.

The social insecurity, which results from foreign rule and the foreign pressures which are effective so long as the Arab world is broken into small states with an average population of one to five millions, makes it impossible for Islamic culture to flower as it did in the days of the Abbasids.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

The Islamic culture of Egypt was similar to the culture of the rest of the Muslim world.

Our concern in this and the subsequent chapters is not, however, with the total Islamic culture but with the specifically religious culture which originates almost exclusively from the Qur» an, the Traditions of the Prophet of Islam, and the various interpretations of these two fundamental sources.

That is, there is no «Christian civilization» or «Christian culture» in the way that there is an «Islamic culture,» which you can recognize from Pakistan to Tunisia to Morocco.

And so he experiments with Islamic culture, turns it inside out and upside down, flirts with it, chucks it aside, and performs endless dissections and experimentations to see whether truth can withstand the cut and thrust of human manipulation.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

He champions the cause of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali - born Dutch politician (now resident in America) who has boldly condemned the oppression within Islamic culture and has been threatened with death because of it.

Burleigh's frankness about Arab and Islamic culture is refreshing.

They liked Islamic culture so much that they converted to Islam.

The renaissance of Islamic culture and politics, the rebirth of Shinto in Japan, the appearance of powerful Jewish, Hindu and Christian «fundamentalisms» in Israel, India and the U.S. — all these have raised important questions about the allegedly ineluctable process of secularization.

Prominent Islamic culture is proving fairly impervious to agnostic relativism.

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

An appreciation of the role of the Turks in Islamic culture requires some understanding of the part played by the different Turkish empires during these centuries.

While Mahathir played on some of the most unsavory notes in contemporary Islamic culture, few commentators at the time noted that he struck those notes in service of doctrinal moderation, in the call for a progressive and reformed Islam, one less captive to narrow traditionalism and more open to science and philosophy.

Add to this the latter's reluctance to question any aspect of Islamic culture (even though many reform - minded Muslims do); and the idea that Islamophobia is more intense and widespread than Christianophobia (even as human rights organizations document just the reverse), and you begin to understand the depths of the problem.

For too long now since 9/11, the promoters of fear of a clash of civilizations have monopolized our thinking in their attempt to degrade, dishonor and dehumanize the Muslim people in general and the Islamic culture and heritage in particular.

Textual literalism is an important part of Islamic culture.

And now the same symptom is easy to see in the violent crises of Islamic culture, which has appropriated many themes of Western anti-Semitism alien to the Qur» an.

A book I am reading now is called «Sea of Faith» and its about the interaction between Christian and Islamic culture in war and peace around the Mediteranean Sea from 600 to around 1700 I think.

The Bahá» í faith grew out of Islamic culture in 19th - century Persia.

Well, Tyson can give us specific quotes from one of the most prominent of Muslim scholars denouncing mathematics and lists of astronomical discoveries made before radical religion became entrenched in Islamic culture, while you present ambiguous statements like «history» and «facts» and attacks on his credibility, not his arguments.

Timbuktu was the center of Islamic culture.

It should also be pointed out that, in the areas to which Islam spread, the termination of one chapter of existence and the beginning of the new Islamic culture, with all that this change entailed in the forming of new relationships and acceptance of basic ideas, restored the vigor and revived the energies of nations which had been weighed down by age and tradition.