Essays on Tawhid

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Introduction. In his book Islam in Saudi Arabia David Commins takes us through the journey of Islam as a religion in Saudi from the eighteenth century up to the twentieth century. Chapter three is titled Wahhabism and the modern state. Wahhabism rose when Wahhab and Ibn Saud signed a pact giving rise to the state of Saudi Arabia. Having been promised power and religious legitimacy by Wahhab, Ibn Saud then pledged to ensure that the teachings of Wahhabism were carried out in the entire Kingdom. In this chapter, we see how subsequent rulers handled crisis through initiating changes like ...

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Islamic Fasting

Introduction Fasting is a term used to denote the age old practice of abstaining from food. In general, it is defined as the conscious or willing abstention from all or some foods for a certain period of time. Scholars believe that fasting is an ancient practice that has been observed in the earliest history of human civilization and is universal in scope. Fasting, for instance, has been observed in the culture of Native Americans as well as in the natives of New Guinea and in almost every culture and civilizations around the globe (Piper 31). Fasting has ...

The War on Terror was a topic heavily covered by the American press, and by a number of other countries. Perkins (2004) states that America spends about $87 billion dollars on this war. However, the money can be used on more productive things. This started off with 9/11, an event that was highly sensationalized by media all around the world. Not many people knew anything about the Middle East before this tragedy. Under the American’s public knowledge and map, Suez, Cyprus, Algeria, Lebanon, Pakistan and Baghdad, along with other places, are all lumped together under one general label, which is ...