Islamic Culture
Islamic Culture questions and answers
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Q: Which of the following is not associated with classical Islamic culture?
Which of the following is not associated with classical Islamic culture?
equality of the sexes
Sufis
algebra
sakk
hemispheric trade
A: equality of sexes
Q: what went wrong with Islamic culture?
How is it that a culture that so enlightened the world a thousand years ago,has now become so repressive and inhumane.It is sad that today's image of Islamic culture is represented by the Taliban/ extreme Iranian Clerics/Suicide bombers .When did the decline set in and what caused it?
A: Read the history of the founding of Islam, and you will realise that there was something seriously wrong from the very beginning.
Q: Why are the people of the Islamic culture such as Muslims judged because how they dress and who they worship? ?
Many Muslims are often judged because they wear head ties because of their religion. I am wondering what is so different about them that makes us judge them. Also why do some people see Islamic people as such violent people who are all about war and hurting Americans.
A: Statistics are cold. They have no prejudices. The facts just are the facts.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
http://www.islam-watch.org/
Islam needs to evolve. And right now.
Q: Has Islamic Culture been globalized already? Or has it remain detached and untouchable?
The Islamic culture is usually branded as archaic, traditional and methodical...the changes of the world can not penetrate easily in this culture because of their glued ideas and practices..but in the past years, I have observed many innovations..has the technoly taken the culture apart too???
A: Islamic culture has not been globalized. As in any country or society there are beliefs and traditions. There is no reason for people to change if they feel that the situation suits their culture.
I think most non muslim people wonder about a lot of the rules and restrictions. Perhaps understand of the Isalmic faith would clear misunderstandings and misconceptions. As you live your life within your community so Muslims follow the same pattern. Whether you agree or not, that is their choice. We must respect that
Technology does not destroy a society. People who no longer wish to follow the rules of the society are the ones who "Break" the society. They find that people in other parts of the world live in a different manner and they prefer that above their own.
Remember that society is made of individual people. It is not a solid block of unthinking matter. The Communists tried to form their society into one robotic group of humans, all looking, acting and thinking the same. It did not work then and it will not work in the Islamic community either. When the majority of the people rebell against the customs, traditions and rules of their society then Islam must change or be destroyed. This is not a reflection on the religion. It is the inevitable consequence of change.
Q: What does the Hi-jab (head scarf) mean in Islamic culture?
If it is a symbol of modesty, why do I see Hi-jab wearing women in Toronto driving around in BMW and Mercedes? I once saw a woman wearing a Hi-jab,step out of her M3 BMW with a miniskirt and high heels.
A: If she did that ,this is not Hijab ,Hijab does't mean head scarf only ,it has many responsibilities and a way of dressing
Q: Can anyone tell me the cons of islamic culture on nation states?
A: How about the lack of personal freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and the list goes on and on.
Q: Is the head of the Islamic Culture Department correct when he says women should not drive?
The link to the video (watch it 'til the end):
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1475#
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The link to the transcript (read it to the end):
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1475
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The snip:
Dr. Sleiman Al-'Eid, head of the Islamic culture department at King Saud University: Driving will lead women to leave their homes a lot, whether they need to or not. In principle, women should stay at home, as everybody knows.
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In addition, this might lead women to wear make-up and uncover their faces. Even if you say that women will drive covered by a niqab, or dressed modestly, and so on, this will gradually lead her to uncover her face. This will also encourage her to be disobedient. There is no doubt that women will eventually be photographed, and these photos will be shown to other people – whether the traffic police or other who need to look at these photos, for identification or nay other purpose. This will lead women to mix with men.
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A: Driving is dangerous enough in Saudi Arabia as it is, with only men driving.
Q: what is the major influence of Byzantine and Islamic culture on Western Civilization?
A: Byzantine was the last outpost of the roman empire - the biggest influence the council of Niceaa which later led to the split of the catholic and orthodox churches and it upheld roman traditions including law (which is partially unchanged in european law systems)
it was an important staging point for crusades (until sacked by a crusade 1204)
was last line of defence when people of the east moved in (Vandals mongols Visigoths etc)
Islamic: after ousting bycantine in 1453 bordered to western europe and conquered quite a bit soon (Greece,Bulgaria , Rumania ,Serbia and parts of Hungary)
Biggest influence in arts and medicine (Alhambra in Grenada) - the best medical university of the time was in Bagdad, mathematics (introduction of the zero)
take a pick hope that helped
Q: Is there such a thing as "Islamic culture"?
If so, can you give some examples of countries with an "Islamic culture"?
(I should have asked this in my other question, but didn't think of it until reading the other question about Islamic culture by johanna.)
A: Saudi Arabia has mostly Islamic culture based on the teachings of
Quran and the traditions of Prophet Mohammad SAW.
Other Muslim countries also have mainly their culture based on Islamic teachings but very few of their practices in their culture are still from the influence of pre-Islam like Muslims in India and Pakistan still have few practices that are because of influence of Hindu Culture.
May Allah show us the right way of Islam.
Q: How is the culture of they Byzantine empire and Islamic empire reflected in their arts?
How is the culture of they Byzantine empire and Islamic empire reflected in their arts
A: try http://history-world.org/BYZ3.htm
if that did not do it then try
www.history-world.org
and see what it's got
Q: identifiy one contribution to astronomy made by the islamic culture?
which dominated much of the world during the middle age?
A: Islamic (Arabic) astronomy between the 8th-16th centuries included Indian, Sassanid and Hellenistic works which had a significant influence on Indian and European astronomy as well as Chinese astronomy.
A significant number of stars in the sky, such as Aldebaran and Altair - navigational stars used to construct navigational instruments, and astronomical terms such as alhidade, azimuth, and almucantar, are still today recognized with their Arabic names.
A large corpus of literature from Islamic astronomy remains today, numbering approximately 10,000 manuscripts scattered throughout the world.
Islamic astronomy laid the foundation for spherical geometry.
They triangulated the vertices of zenith, the north celestial pole, and the sun's position to calculate the time of day. They constructed a calendar.
Muhammad ibn Jabir al-Harrani al-Battani (853-929) calculated lengths for the solar year and sidereal year, prediction of eclipses, and wrote works on the phenomenon of parallax.
In the 9th century, Jafar Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir made significant contributions to astrophysics and celestial mechanics by being the first to hypothesize that the heavenly bodies and celestial spheres are subject to the same laws of physics as Earth, unlike the ancients who believed that the celestial spheres followed their own set of physical laws different from that of Earth. In his Astral Motion and The Force of Attraction, Muhammad ibn Musa also proposed that there is a force of attraction between heavenly bodies (gravity).
In 964, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi gave the first descriptions and pictures of "A Little Cloud" now known as the Andromeda Galaxy and he was the first to record mention of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi relatively accurately computed the axial tilt to be 23.53 degrees, a significant improvement over the Greek and Indian estimates of 23.86 and 24 degrees.
In 1006, Ali ibn Ridwan observed SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, and left a detailed written description of it.
In the early 11th century, Ibn al-Haytham in his Book of Optics (1021), was the first to discover that the celestial spheres do not consist of solid matter, and he also discovered that the heavens are less dense than the air. He also made the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax, and he thus "determined that because the Milky Way had no parallax, it was very remote from the earth and did not belong to the atmosphere." Abu Rayhan al-Biruni discovered the Milky Way galaxy to be a collection of numerous nebulous stars.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (1292-1350), in his Miftah Dar al-SaCadah, used empirical arguments in astronomy in order to refute the practice of astrology. He recognized that the stars are much larger than the planets. This gave scientific relevance for the seperation of astrology and astronomy.
Between 1025 and 1028, Ibn al-Haytham wrote Doubts on Ptolemy. He was the first to criticize Ptolemy's astronomical system, which he criticized on empirical, observational and experimental grounds, and for relating actual physical motions to imaginary mathematical points, lines and circles. He was also an influence on optics in later telescope designs.
By 1031, al-Biruni completed his extensive astronomical encyclopaedia in which he recorded his astronomical findings and formulated astronomical tables and was first to state that the motions of the solar apogee and the precession are not identical. Al-Biruni also discovered that the distance between the Earth and the Sun is larger than Ptolomy had calculated. The Islam view that the Earth rotated upon an axis was accepted at this time.
Between the 11th and 12th centuries, Islam astronomers had found so many faults in the Ptolomic model that this era is termed the Andalusian Revolt. Islamists were denying the existance of epicycles and replacing them with elliptical orbits.
In the following centuries, the works of Ibn al-Haytham and al-Biruni became well known in Europe.
Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375) in A Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary Theory, came very close to discovering the true heliocentric model. His rectified model was later adapted into a heliocentric model by Copernicus which was achieved by reversing the direction of the last vector connecting the Earth to the Sun. In the published version of his masterwork, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543), Copernicus cites the theories of al-Battani, Arzachel and Averroes as influences towards his heliocentric model.
Q: If the sole cause of Palestinian violence is Islamic culture, explain why George Habash got involved too?
Mr Habash = Christian
Serious and intelligent responses only please
lee_spencer99, your response is NOT an answer to this question. its irrelevant.
however, Arabs would argue they have the same 'right to respond' that you seem to think is solely confined to Israel. BUT please answer the question in future.
Haifa, very well said.
Its a staple of Zionist propaganda, sadly believed by many millions in the West, that Arabs are motivated not by anti-colonialism, but by medieval wickedness and religious intolerance
jayjay, this question is designed partly to ridicule Zionist claims that the sole cause of Palestinian violence is Islamic culture. thank you helping us disabuse people of this notion
Kevin S, LOL, that's a new one! could explain more about this apparently great money making scheme that the Ay-rabs have hatched against Israel
Sabre and the impersonator, how can you be blocked if youre posting here?
Please answer the question in future and stop posting messages of hate PLEASE.
A: Am an agnostic Lebanese girl, and i support Palestine not because of the Islamic Hamas or the Secular Fatah.
Its because those people need their land back and the Zions need 2 go back 2 Europe , Africa and America
Q: When will the western liberals accept the fact that the Islamic culture is a bunch of crap?
Islam represents everything liberals hate, but oh g, it's a religion. We can't say anything bad about a religion, or we wouldn't be liberals.
Mabye, just mabye, the liberal ideaology and the Islamic (lack of) culture are both full ofshit.
Lakat, I know they blow upshit everyday and kill alot of people.
A: Islam is a faith, a system of belief...not necessarily a culture.
Perhaps what you say is true regarding the more primitive Arabian Wahabbist Islamic culture (which is what the Islamist freaks want to impose on the world through Al-Qaida's evil Islamic empire), but there are Islamic cultures which are now modern, free and progressive (Turkey and Malaysia for example).
Liberals are also generally full of sh*t...especially the more weak and cowardly ones. But there are liberals which arent at least as stupid as some conservatives are.
Otherwise...I agree 200% that "Liberal" Cowards and Islamist Wahabbist freaks are full of sh*t!!!
Q: Jewelry of Islamic culture?
I am trying to find anything about Jewelry of Islamic culture!! i need specific facts of it's development and how did desine of past effected preent!!
A: If Moslem artifacts was bombs! Let me ask who invented them?!
Moslems invented a true culture of philosophy, Artitechture, and sciences, chemistry, physics, optics, and mathematics.
And if what's is happening now, is not considered Islam under any name, Islam is a true religion of peace.