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…, ¡°my ¡°X¡± replaced the slave-master¡¯s name of ¡°Little¡± which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears.¡± He also improved his lack of knowledge by reading encyclopaedias and read plenty of books as well as the Koran…

…boundaries, Ahmed tries to express that women's role and comprehension of Islam surpasses the synthetic boundaries placed on it by notions of Western feminism and Arab nationalism. As she states, “Generations of astute, thoughtful women, listening to the Koran…

…that when a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his religion. In a sense, marriage will keep you from swaying off of Allah’s path into a life of fornication, which is a great offense. Marriage is regarded as an act pleasing to Allah. The Koran says…

…from God. Philosophy of religion has a concern with whether God would be expected to provide a revelation, and with what the tests are that he has done so (e.g. whether the Koran, or the Christian Bible and Creeds, record such a revelation). Joseph Butler's…

…to Ahmed Rashid, “the Taliban are poorly tutored in Islamic and Afghan history, knowledge of Sharia and the Koran and the political and theoretical developments in the Muslim world during the twentieth century…their exposure to the radical Islamic debate around…

…cultural activity, assimilated and instituted their own knowledge and intuition into the existing situation. The Moorish nobility developed rituals associated with the fiesta, despite the Koran’s admonishment against pursuing the hunt. The Bullring…

…women’s roles and rights in society. The prejudices against Muslim women in the Philippines have less to do with the Koran than with the rigid structures of the Islamized groups in the southern Philippines. Such rigidity has its origins in history, even…

…of reading in his time of imprisonment. Early in his life he read religious writings such as the Bible, the Koran, Theosophy, and especially the Bhagavad-Gita. However, Gandhi was most profoundly affected by the writings of Tolstoy. The Tolstoy helped Gandhi…

…. The authors of religious texts such as the Bible and the Koran did not have the knowledge to address the problems that confront people today such as the ethics of in vitro fertilization or cloning. It is impossible to apply these religious precepts to modern…

…to determine if they have a duty to act. For example certain religions would turn to their holy scriptures like the bible or the Koran to gain a knowledge of what was morally right. Some of these religions believe the inferiority of certain peoples.. The catholic…