… the world. There are over one billion Muslims spread throughout the globe transcending all nationalities, languages and ethnic backgrounds. How did all this begin? “The history of Islam begins with Muhammad, but not with his birth, for its date…

… of the holy cites of Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia plays an important role in Islam. Islam is the basis of Saudi Arabia's national identity, society, law, and politics. This becomes apparent simply by looking at the Saudi flag, which combines…

… to man. Wiesel saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also states in his book that his God, to whom he was so devoted, was also "murdered" by the Nazis. In the novel Wiesel changed from a devout Jew to a broken young…

… I wondered what the origins of the books¡¯ names in the New Testament. However, through this class, I learned that most of them are epistles of Paul and apostles. Hebrews, which I read, was a letter written by an anonymous person. There are still…

… named Buddha in the 6th century B.C. Buddhism centered around the doctrines and teachings of Buddha with meditation playing an important part in the worship. Although originating in India, most of the Buddhists today are found living in the…

… universal ideas explored in a literary work. Women's Bodies as Political Instruments - Because Gilead was formed in response to the crisis caused by dramatically decreased birthrates, the state's entire structure, with its religious trappings…

… but in Mesopotamia he was delayed by a reconnaissance of Assyrian mounds. It was from this reconnaissance of Nineveh that he found a buried library and lost literature. The importance of this find was not understood until much later when the…

… in the first century A.D. The basic organization of the Church was also put in place during this time, but the organization is something that has evolved, and continues to evolve, throughout the past two thousand years. Yet to say that the Roman Catholic…

… views on the subject change with my mood. When I’m in a good mood and everything is going well, I tend to think there is an existence of a higher power. There are days, though, when it seems like the whole world is against me; and these are the days…

… mean to be happy? What is happiness, and where do we find it? These are some of the questions I have had in mind for the past few years, and ones which are very hard to fathom, much less answer. However, these are the questions which Thomas Aquinas…