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- 31: Alcoholism 3
- ... own general ethos or sense of decorum about the use and role of alcoholic beverages within its social structure. In some cultures drinking is either forbidden or frowned upon. The Koran contains prohibitions against drinking, and Muslims are forbidden to sell or serve alcoholic beverages. Hindus take a negative view of the use of alcohol; this is reflected in the constitution ...
- 32: Muhammed Ali 2
- ... revelations". Sometimes these were kept in memory by Muhammad and his followers, and sometimes they were written down. About 650 they were collected and written in the Qur'an (or Koran, the sacred scriptures of Islam), in the form that has endured through time. Muslims believed the Qur'an is divine revelation, written in the words of God himself.
- 33: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
- ... of the ghettos of Harlem, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Initially a small group, the Nation grew rapidly under Malcolm's leadership. He not only spoke the words of the Koran and his spiritual mentor, Elijah Muhammad, but he also lived it to its fullest. As the crowds grew to hear him speak, so did the opposition to his rising stardom ...
- 34: Tom Clancy
- ... age. He was a teacher of mathematics until three years prior, and a college graduate in a country where most people deemed it enough to be able to read the Koran. He had married young, as was the custom in his land, and fathered two children. But his wife and daughter were dead, killed by rockets fired from a Russian attack ...
- 35: Male, Female, And Religion
- ... result of Muslim images of women, and the variety of Islamic and hetero-Islamic rites and practices in which Islamic women have traditionally participated. The Holy Quran (sometimes transliterated as "Koran") still forms the basis of prevailing family law in most areas of the Muslim world. It has always been and still is considered to be the last in a series ...
- 36: Islam Mosques
- ... statues or pictures in a mosque because they are afraid that with these images idyllic worshiping might come back. However, you will see arches engraved with Arabic calligraphy from the Koran. The main service of a mosque is on Friday when most male Muslims come to pray among each other. Muslim women are under no obligation go to the mosque on ...
- 37: Of Castles And Kings (chess)
- ... better that he should not learn to play Chess. I have never allowed my children to learn it, for I have seen too much of it’s evil results.” The Koran specifically puts down Chess and its “graven images”. In 1912, the Archbishop of Canterbury threatened British clergy with a bread and water diet if they did not give up the ...
- 38: Gambling 2
- ... in times of trouble, rabbis in European Jewish communities banned dice games and other games of chance. Gambling was also proscribed by some Eastern religions, such as Confucianism, by the Koran of Islam, and by the moral codes of many Protestant denominations. Today gambling occurs in practically all nations and takes a great variety of forms. Among the most widespread practices ...
- 39: Slavery - An Era Of Inhumanity
- ... the village grandmothers, who loved the children as if they were their own. Older children attend school and learn the history of their forefathers as well as verses from the Koran. After classes are over, they tend the goats, which they do with extreme alertness for they are fully responsible for their fathers' goats. The women in Juffure pass the day ...
- 40: Al-Razi
- ... the ground that reason is sufficient to distinguish between good and evil and also that reason alone can enable us to know Allah. He also denies the miraculousness of the Koran and preferred scientific books to all sacred books. Al-Razi is considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world. With reference to his Greek predecessors, Al-Razi ...
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