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The influence of Religon on Sex Roles in the Muslim Culture.

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(6 pp) In addition to western thought and education there are three other areas that influence the life of a Muslim. According to Hussain (2000), they are: the Islamic scriptures --Quran and Hadith as interpreted b Ulamas, Mullahs, Muftis and Maulavis, and communicated through Madrasahs and Mosques, and administered through the Islamic state wherever there is one. The second is Tasawwuf (Islamic mysticism),which seeks truth through personal religious experience and not through the scriptures and is espoused by the Sufis (religious mystics). And the third is Adab (a concept broadly meaning art and literature) as a sub-culture of broad-minded and urbane people of high learning and literary tastes.Poets, writers and artists are its communicators. Among Indian Muslims the medium of Adab was Persian. Now it is Urdu. Because of this orientation, looking at the influence of religion on the sex roles between men and women is not as simple within the Muslim culture as it might initially seem. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

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the region of Spain. Bibliography lists six sources. BBMuslim THE "CROSS AND THE CRESCENT" IN NORTH AFRICA AND SPAIN Research compiled by B. Bryan Babcock August 2001 -- properly Introduction This paper examines the conflict between Christianity and Islam during the Muslim conquests of North Africa and Spain. Examined is North Africas resistance and eventual concession to Islam as well as the Muslim conquest in 711AD that resulted in the spread of Islamic religion and culture to the region of Spain. What was Spain and North Africa like before the Muslims? Spain, like Britain, Gaul, South Germany, Italy and North Africa, had been civilized by the Romans. According to McCabe, "Those uninspired, materialistic, sensual, immoral Romans had made of its primitive inhabitants a happy cultured folk immeasurably higher than any section of Christendom was a thousand years later. You (can) still tread their roads and cross their bridges in Spain." After the fall of Rome, Spain was dominated by the Teutonic tribes, the Vandals, and the Visigoths in succession. The Visigoths adopted the ways of the Christian church and within two centuries were as corrupt as the rest of the Church in Europe, with the clergy owning great wealth, and large amounts of land. In the early years of the seventh century, the Arabs overran the old civilizations of Persia and Egypt. It did not take them ...

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