Islamic Culture
Islamic Culture questions and answers
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Q: Islamic Culture?
What are the achievement of Islamic culture in medicine science, mathematics, literature, art, and architecture? Are they still advancing.
A: A long time go Islamic culture was the most advanced in the fields you specified. But unfortunately, not anymore. This is mainly due to the fact that the governments of Arab states simply do not invest in research and development. Either because they don't have the income needed, or they have so much income(i.e Kuwait), that they simply import technology from abroad. However there are several notable exceptions. Some people from the Arab world, who went to study abroad, have excelled ( eg the Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail, who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1999). However if these people had not left their countries, then i have no doubt that they would have achieved nothing.
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Q: What are some of the contributionsthat Islamic culture has made to the West?
What are some of the contributions that Islamic culture has made to the West?
A: Math, Astronomy, Architecture...
Q: the Islamic culture is a comlicated one, can you explain to me the structures in Islamic societies?
the Islamic culture is a comlicated one, and I would like to get some understanding,can you explain to me the social structures in Islamic societies?
A: The basic social unit is the family, and its tribe. Loyalty and obedience beyond religious matters is determined within these social units. They are paternal and hierarchical.
Honor is a key element of their social code, and any violation is quick to be noted and responded too, usually with violence. Honor is also a group concept that family members must uphold together.
Arab society conducts itself by mean of a "shame" culture, unwritten but finely detailed customs that cannot be violated without incurring great personal shame, not just to the individual, but also to his extended family. Shame must be expunged; it is a stain that must be removed whatever the costs.
Q: How is culture reflected in arts of both Byzantine & Islamic culture?
How is culture reflected in arts of both Byzantine & Islamic culture?
i mean it as 2 seperate questions like
how is byzantine culture reflected in byzantine art and how is islamic culture reflected in islamic art
A: Byzantine art is not reflected in Islamic art. The mohammedans copied it. That is quite different.
Q: Libs & Dems When will you understand that we need to fight against the expansion of the Islamic culture?
When the Muslims force all women to wear a head scarf?
When the Muslims force all women to wear a burkha?
When the Muslims start enforcing Sharia law?
When homosexuals and adulterous women are stoned to death?
When the Muslims destroy your countries works of art and culture because they are not Islamic?
When women are forced into arranged marriages?
When slavery is re-legalized?
When teachers are executed for educating children?
When people are beheaded for their religion?
Where will you draw the line?
When these policies are being enacted in Europe?
When these policies are being enacted in the Country on the border of your country?
When these policies are being enacted in your own Country?
Don't you realize that the Islamic expantionists will destroy everything that you cherish?
Don't you realize that you and your kind will be the first ones to be beheaded?
Do you despise the Judeo-Christian culture that has given you so much freedom that much?
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Are you stoned or brainwashed? Or are you a Moslem that wants us to believe that yours is the "religion of peace"? The religion of peace that has and is spread by the sword?
" Look at countries like Lebanon, the UAE, Syria, Turkey, Palestine, Afghanistan, Jordan, Qatar, and a host of others. Women in those countries dress just like Americans. "
I have seen pictures from those countries, Afganistan teachers are executed by the Taliban, the Burkha is a fact of life
Jordan is plagued with "honor killings"
Palestine is degenerating into civil war. Qatar and Syria are un democratic. Turkey is trying to keep a secular goverment.
No I have not read the Koran. I have read The Sword and The Prophet, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Crusades.
The Puritans were worse than Moslems?? Yes the Puritans had some quirks but find me a fundamentalist Christian country today that is as barbarous and backward as most Muslim nations are today.
A: I'm much more worried about the Fundamentalist Right wing Christians destroying the Christianity I grew up with-mine looks nothing like theirs. It wasn't judgemental-we aren't God. Everyone had their own churches-Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutheran and nobody ever thought we needed religion in school-we had church & bible school & bible camp. Everyone got along just fine.
Q: Is a soccer jersey offensive to Islamic culture or is this just an attorney trying to overturn a game?
The link:
http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=509968
The headline:
Fenerbahce To Ask Uefa For Three Points From Inter Match
The snip:
A Turkish lawyer has filed a complaint to Uefa after Inter wore a shirt with an offensive symbol, at least to Islamic culture, in their recent match against Fenerbahce.
A: Because the football Jersey is wearing trunk and is show one
of member of our body and is prohibited by syari'a.But there are two view in Islamic world one accept and other not to accept.
Q: The Islamic culture is a comlicated one, can you explain to me the social structures in Islamic societies?
the Islamic culture is a comlicated one, and I would like to get some understanding,can you explain to me the social structures in Islamic societies?
A: They all are part of various tribes. Tribes often fight because of conflicts on the interpretation of the Koran.
Q: I need Some good Sacred Places in Islamic culture?
I can't seem to find some good Sacred places in Islamic culture? Could you guys please help me out with this?
Thanks in Advance
A: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem are the three most sacred cities in Islam. Basra, in Iraq, is also an important shrine for Shi'a Muslims.
Q: What happens when a person dies in the Islamic culture?
What does the family do? What are the funeral directions?
A: they 1st wash him and then they cover him with cotton towel
and finaly they put him underground and they pray 4 him
Q: In Islamic culture is there no distinction between religious and governmental law?
I was just wondering if Sharia law was governmental law or extrajudicial law.
A: More in Iran or Saudi Arabia. Most Islamic countries have some degree of church (or mosque) and state. But in some Fundamentalists want an Islamic Fundamentalist theocracy to take over, including in Egypt and Pakistan. Turkey is a largely Islamic country with very strict anti-religious laws. Women there are not even supposed to wear the scarves worn by strict Islamic women, in public. There is freedom of religion, but the symbols must be kept private.
Q: Muslim women, how do you feel about the gender inequality in islamic culture?
I'm not trying to offend. Just want some opinions. Please don't answer with a question like "how do you feel about gender inequality in christian culture?" For your information, I think gender inequality is wrong in all cultures.
A: personally i was never confronted to that as a muslim woman so i dunno.
Q: What are two contributions of the islamic culture to the west?
A: From an academic perspective,
Muslim scholars began obtaining Greek treatises and started
their study and translation into Arabic a few centuries after
the Hijrah (622 A.D.) They critically analyzed, collated , corrected
and supplemented substantially the Greek science and philosophy.
After this period began what is known as the Golden Age
of Islam, which lasted for over two centuries. It is here we find
many of the great scientists of Islam who literally left behind
hundreds and thousands of books on the various branches of science.
Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina, universally known
as Avicinna (980-1037), alone wrote 246 books, including
Kitab-al Shifa (The Book of Healing) consisting of 20 volumes and Al-
Qanun fit Tibb (The Canons of Medicine) . The Qanun was the chief
guide for medical science in the West from the twelfth to the
seventeenth century. Dr. William Osler, who wrote The Evolution of
Modern Science, remarks "The Qanun has remained a medical Bible for
a longer period than any other work". Containing over
a million words, it surveyed the entire medical knowledge available
from ancient and Muslim sources, and including his own original
contributions.
Ibn Sina's original contributions included such advances
such as recognition of the contagious nature of phtisis and
tuberculosis; distribution of diseases by water and soil and the
interaction between psychology and health. Also, the book described
over 760 drugs and became the most authentic of its era. Ibn Sina
was also the first to describe meningitis and made rich contributions
to anatomy, gynaecology and child health.
Al-Khawarizmi also helped introduce Arabic numerals, the
decimal position system, and the concept of zero. Algebra
and Algorithm are in fact corruption's of his work and name.
Interestingly, this first every book on algebra included many
examples from the Islamic inheritance laws and how they could be
solved using algebra. Under al-Mamun the caliph of the time, he with
some others were the first to map the globe.
In the field of Algebra the Muslims continued with Thabit Ibn
Qurra's more general equations solved by geometrical
arguments. In 901, Abu Kamil, called "the Egyptian calculator", did
some work on algebra in which he established rules for manipulating
algebraic expressions. He also proved various laws such as
ax*bx-abx^2, a(bx)=(ab)x and (10-x)(10-x)=100+x^2-20x (Mirza, p124).
Around 1000, Abu Bakr Al-Karaji, in his book The Marvelous discussed
higher order equations such as fourth and fifth order equations,
combing geometry and arithmetic. Al-Samawal
established the power law x^nx^n=x^(m+n) in 1180 in his work The
Shining which is just one of his 85 books. He also worked on
performing multiplication of algebraic expressions involving terms
with different powers and division of polynomials. Abu
Yunus proved the famous identity cos(a)cos(b)={cos(a+b)+cos(a-b)}/2
and used spherical trigonometry to set formulas to computer prayer
times. Al-Biruni also used spherical trigonometry to find the
direction of Mecca or any other city on the globe.
Not to mention my Dad's Ph.D thesis at NC State on photovoltaic cells (ie solar cells).
Q: What are the similarities and differences between American and Islamic culture?
A: Similarities:
Both advocate respect for God and His creation, justice in society, caring about one's health, education and knowledge, rights of the individual, etc.
Differences:
Islamic culture emphasizes the importance of family unity, American culture emphasizes individual expression and success.
Islam ic success is of the Hereafter, American success is measured by wealth or happiness in this world.
etc
Q: eating with right hand indian and islamic culture, what if can't?
In south-asian and islamic cultures, the right hand is for doing good things such as eating and shaking hands etc. and the left hand is for more dirty things such as wiping butt after toilet etc. what is someone to do if they didnt have a right hand (such as someone who's hand is amputated for stealing) or the right hand was unable to be used. If someone didn't have a left hand or it was unusable, what would that person do with dirty jobs? thanks.
A: The one would have to use their only hand for everything, making sure they wash it religiously to prevent the spread of bacteria.
Q: Do we as a Nation understand the Islamic culture enough to enable us to Win the War of faux freedom in Iraq???
I live close to an Islamic enclave. And routeenly see women wearing Hajib being treated harshly by men that I assume are their husbands.
The simple fact that I or other average Americans, see spousal abuse as morally wrong. While men of the Islamic persuasion sees this as moral highground. Is evidence of a vast difference in the way each culture views life and freedom.
How can we ever be victors when winning envolves losing our morals.
A: It's beginning to look like the Iraqis had just what they wanted, torture, rape, slavery, and a police state. I'll believe they appreciate freedom when I see them stand up and fight for it.
Does that mean we are supposed to accept and allow the mistreatment of someone in this country based on their religious beliefs as in treating women like cattle? Not necessarily. But don't the Islamic women have the same option of leaving the men who mistreat them that native born American women have?
If an Islamic woman doesn't like being treated badly then she should just leave. If she's not allowed to leave or is kept captive then given the opportunity she should retaliate.
Do I need to understand the Islamic culture to win a war for freedom in Iraq? No. Our men and women fought and gave their lives for the Iraqis freedom. If the Iraqis are not willing to take over that fight and stand up for themselves then let some other dictator come on in and beat the cr-p out of them all over again. It's their decision now. We already won their freedom. Now it's up to them to keep it or give it up.