Nation of Islam

Examples of Nation of Islam in the following topics:

• Black Power

  • Long before Carmichael began to call for separatism, the Nation of Islam, founded in 1930, had advocated the same thing.
  • The Nation of Islam advocated the separation of white Americans and African Americans because of a belief that African Americans could not thrive in an atmosphere of white racism.
  • Indeed, in a 1963 interview, Malcolm X, discussing the teachings of the head of the Nation of Islam in America, Elijah Muhammad, referred to white people as “devils” more than a dozen times.
  • On February 21, 1965, he was killed by members of the Nation of Islam.
  • Unlike Carmichael and the Nation of Islam, most Black Power advocates did not believe African Americans needed to separate themselves from white society.

• Islam

  • Many of these have converted to Islam during the last seventy years.
  • Conversion to Islam in prison and in large urban areas has also contributed to its growth over the years.
  • There are 1,209 mosques in the United States and the nation's largest mosque, the Islamic Center of America, is in Dearborn, Michigan.
  • Deen Mohammed), 16% other (mostly Nation of Islam and Ahmadiyya) and 2% Shi'a.
  • Some Muslims in the U.S. are also adherents of certain global movements within Islam such as the Salafi, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Gulen Movement, and the Tablighi Jamaat.

• Affiliation

  • The main religious preferences in the Unites States include (in order): Christianity, unaffiliate, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
  • A majority of Americans report that religion plays a "very important" role in their lives, a proportion unique among developed nations.
  • The majority of Americans (76% to 80%) identify themselves as Protestants or Catholics, accounting for 51% and 25% of the population respectively.
  • Non-Christian religions (including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.), collectively make up about 5% of the adult population.
  • Christianity comprises 59.9% to 78.4% of affiliation, unaffiliated, including atheist or agnostic are 15.0% to 37.3%, Judaism are 1.2 % to 2.2 %, Islam about .6%, Buddhism 0.5 % to 0.9%, Hinduism 0.4% and other religions 1.2% to 1.4% in the United States.

• Indonesian Painting

  • Indonesian painting has been shaped by a myriad of cultural influences, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and colonial forces.
  • Indonesia is centrally-located along ancient trading routes between the Far East, South Asia, and the Middle East, resulting in art and paintings that are strongly influenced by a multitude of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity.
  • The 1920s to 1940s were a time of growing nationalism in Indonesia.
  • The Indonesian Painters Association (or PERSAGI, 1938–1942) was formed during this period and established a contemporary art philosophy that saw art as a reflection of the artist’s individual views, as well as an expression of national cultural thoughts.
  • During this period, the national identity of Indonesia was stressed by painters through the use of a realistic, documentary style.

• Religious Diversity

  • A majority of Americans report that religion plays a "very important" role in their lives, a proportion unique among developed nations.
  • According to the census, religion in the United States is comprised of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the unaffiliated, including atheists or agnostics.
  • On the other hand, American Islam effectively began with the arrival of African slaves.
  • Interfaith dialogue refers to dialogue between members of different religions for the goal of reducing conflicts between their religions and to achieve agreed upon mutually desirable goals.
  • Among the symbols one can recognize Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.

• Spread of Islam

  • Trading played an important role in the spread of Islam in several parts of the world, notably southeast Asia.
  • Within the first century of the establishment of Islam upon the Arabian peninsula and the subsequent rapid expansion of the Arab Empire during the Muslim conquests, one of the most significant empires in world history was formed.
  • Only in subsequent centuries, with the development of the religious doctrine of Islam and with that the understanding of the Muslim ummah, did mass conversion take place.
  • The new understanding by the religious and political leadership in many cases led to a weakening or breakdown of the social and religious structures of parallel religious communities such as Christians and Jews: with the weakening of many churches, for example, and the favoring of Islam and the migration of substantial Muslim Turkish populations into the areas of Anatolia and the Balkans, the "social and cultural relevance of Islam" were enhanced and a large number of peoples were converted.
  • Discuss the spread of Islam and identify how the caliphs maintained authority over conquered territories

• Early Islamic Society

  • Islam was established in Arabia between 610 and 661 and effected great changes to society, family structure, slavery, and the rights of women.
  • He sees Islam itself as a type of revolution that greatly changed the societies into which the new religion was brought .
  • Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Mosque of the Prophet) in Medina, Saudi Arabia, is the 2nd most sacred Mosque in Islam.
  • Medina was the power base of Islam in its first century.
  • It was where the early Muslim community (ummah) developed under the Prophet's leadership, then under the leadership of the first four caliphs of Islam: Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, and Ali.

• Ancient Africa

  • Fossil remains of several species of early apelike humans thought to have evolved into modern man have been discovered.
  • Throughout humanity's prehistory, Africa had no nation states, and was instead inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers such as the Khoi and San.
  • Islam spread to sub-Saharan Africa, mainly through trade routes and migration.
  • Kanem accepted Islam in the 11th century.
  • Its leader Sonni Ali and his successor Askia Mohammad I (1493–1528) made Islam the official religion, built mosques, and brought to Gao Muslim scholars.

• Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

  • Religion plays a "very important" role in the lives of most Americans; a proportion unique among developed nations.
  • Religion plays a "very important" role in the lives of most Americans, a proportion unique among developed nations.
  • In 2007, the population of American adherents of Judaism was estimated to be approximately 5,128,000, or 1.7% of the total population .
  • American Islam effectively began with the arrival of African slaves.
  • Around 1900, the state of Punjab of British India was hit hard by British practices of mercantilism.

• The Reconquista

  • People who converted to Catholicism were not subject to expulsion, but between 1480 and 1492 hundreds of those who had converted (conversos and moriscos) were accused of secretly practicing their original religion (crypto-Judaism or crypto-Islam) and arrested, imprisoned, interrogated under torture, and in some cases burned to death, in both Castile and Aragon.
  • Those that the Spanish Inquisition found to be secretly practicing Islam or Judaism were executed, imprisoned or expelled.
  • Nevertheless, all those deemed to be "New Christians" were perpetually suspected of various crimes against the Spanish state including continued practice of Islam or Judaism.
  • The Councils of Toledo debated creed and liturgy in orthodox Catholicism, and the Council of Lerida in 546 constrained the clergy and extended the power of law over them under the blessings of Rome.
  • The period of Reconquista and the Spanish Inquisition that followed, turned Catholicism into the dominant religion of Spain, which have shaped the development of the Spanish state and national identity.