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Essay Instructions: Prophet Muhammad fought for social change and equality against the status quo by using religion to unite the people of Mecca under one God. Show how the movement accomplished its goals for unity. Cite pages from the text to support your argument.
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Essay Instructions: Custom one of a kind research paper on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on a college freshman level

Essay Instructions: Here is the course description, to give you an idea of what kind of class the paper is for:

Course Description:

This survey course is a general introduction to the academic study of Islam. We will discuss Islam's place as one of the three Middle Eastern monotheistic religions, its historical evolution, religious precepts and practices, ideas and culture. We begin first with the emergence of the early Muslim movement under the prophet Muhammad in the 7th century Arabia and early Muslim empires. We then explore the Qur'an and its interpretation; theology, philosophy and law; ritual practice and munity life; Shi'i Islam and other sects, Sufi mysticism; and modern secular-liberal political and fundamentalist expressions. The course draws on a wide range of approaches (historical, sociological, anthropological and literary) and texts (primary and secondary) to examine Islamic religious practices and ideals as they interact with larger social and cultural processes. The primary goal of the course will be to develop a framework for explaining the sources and symbols through which specific experiences and understandings have been signified as "Islamic." The course is oriented to those who have little or no prior knowledge of Islam.

The topic I selected for this research paper is to:

Cover the origins of the subjection of islamic women and its
manifestation throughout history up to modern times,
focusing particularly on the arab world and contrasting the
conservative arab world with more liberal modern muslim
societies.

As for the sources, please be sure to use the Qur'an as one of the sources as it is the origin of Islamic law.

The topic is fairly straight forward, please cover the historical sources of women's roles in Islamic society (this would naturally e from the Qur'an and from tradition (sunna) based on Mohammad's life). Cover how, based on Islamic laws and traditions women's roles have been determined and how the laws actually manifested themselves through history up to modern times. Finally, contrast modern conservative Islamic societies and their treatment/roles of women with more liberal modern Islamic societies (I believe Turkey might be an appropriate area to look for information on more liberal societies). Please keep the focus on the Arab world in particular but a digression here and there may be appropriate.

Please spell the "Koran" as "Qur'an" and "Muhammad" as "Mohammad." Don't be shy in using Islamic words (and defining them) in the paper. Five sources is a minimum and you may feel free to use more if you find it necessary.

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Essay Instructions: RELIGIOUS STUDIES: Essay/Case Study Guidelines

Short Essay/Case Study: Minimum 650 words - Double spaced, 12 Times New Roman APA style.

Text: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero

A well-constructed essay will include a short Introduction to the topic, a Thesis statement or argument, and a short Conclusion. The majority of your essay should support and defend your thesis statement (argument). Please do not summarize the text, but rather, make a statement/argument and use the text to support your thesis. Assume the reader of your essay is familiar with the text already. You will write 2 short essays and 1 long essay. You may choose to use this short essay as a primer for the long essay. While the essays will have different content, you may try out ideas or arguments in this essay that you would like to explore later.
For this essay, choose any topic within the text(s) that you find interesting or provocative. Either use one of the prompts below, or come up with your own. It’s OK to disagree with the author or philosopher you are writing about. The major goal of the essay is to show engagement with the text(s).
For each unit, choose one of the following topics:


Unit 2 ??" Islam

1. The birth of Islam. The story of the growth of Islam is a remarkable one. In 610 CE, the Prophet Muhammad received the word of God on a lonely mountaintop just outside the holy city of Mecca in present-day Saudi Arabia. A century after his death in 632, belief in the message he had received had spread westwards along the coast of North Africa as far as Spain, and in the opposite direction all the way to the Himalayas. At first Allah’s revelations to Muhammad were shared orally, but after his death they were written down as the Qur’an ??" a word that means ‘recitation.’
2. The Pillars of Islam. Islam teaches that faith must come first and that it cannot be tailored or compromised to fit around secular lives. At the heart of the commitment it demands are the “Pillars of Islam,” a concept shared by all branches of the religion. These pillars ??" numbers vary between the different Islamic traditions ??" represent the duties incumbent on every Muslim if they are to lead a good and responsible life in line with Allah’s teaching. They shape the daily lives of the one-billion-plus Muslims worldwide.
3. Sunni and Shi’a. Within all religions there are various traditions, sects and groups, often separated from each other by disagreements that took place many centuries ago. In the 50 years following the death of the Prophet, a split appeared in Islam between the majority, the Sunni, and a radical minority, the Shi’a, who felt they were closer to the Prophet’s life and example. At the same time as Islam was spreading both west and east at great speed, there was a fundamental breach at its center. The legacy of this schism 1300 years ago remains part of the Muslim world to this day.
4. The heart of Islam. The phrase “the heart of Islam” refers to the Sufi mystical tradition. As Islam expanded into empire in the ninth and tenth centuries, it turned increasingly to jurists, who worked to distil the wisdom of the Qur’an, the Hadith and the Sunnah into the codes of Shar’iah law, a system that would give structure to society. Sufism was a reaction against this dry legalism, stressing love above justice. Its often uninhibited ceremonies, including songs and dancing, render it suspect in the eyes of many orthodox Muslims, but it remains a powerful force within the Islamic tradition.
5. Militant Islam. In the twentieth century, many rulers of Muslim countries rejected what they saw as a medieval past by attempting to separate religion and politics. Ataturk in Turkey, Nasser in Egypt, Jinnah in Pakistan and the Shah in Iran were all encouraged by Western governments in their efforts to move with the times ??" insisting on modern dress, replacing Shar’iah with a civil legal system, and sidelining or exiling clerics. Such huge changes, however, inevitably provoked a backlash, and the later decades of the twentieth century and the opening of one of the twenty-first have seen the rise of a new form of militant Islam.




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