The Tribe has always been an important concept in Arabian and Islamic history, creating divisions among its dwellers and followers. How has this caused problems in the history of Islam?
The concept of tribe has always been an important idea in Arabian and Islamic history. While they have many positive features to them, unfortunately they also come with problems. Some of those include the too stron of a reliance on the leader. For example after Muhammad's death most of the alliences broke, along with Islamic peace. The problem was that the people of the tribe relied too much on their leader, and when the leader collapsed, so did the people's stability.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Blog #8 Religious History of India
How has the religious history of India influenced India’s tradition of non-violence?
I think that the religious history of India influenced India's tradion of non-violence in many ways. It's leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a big believer of non-violence, and peace. Growing up in a home with strong belief in Vaishnavism (worship of Hindu God Vishnu) and Jainism influence as well, which had non violent beliefs, and thought that everything in the world was eternal. Another example is how the idea of reincarnation came up in Indian history which was the belief that what you do in your current life effects where you will be in your next life. So if you were to act violent and causing wars, your would most likely be something bad in your next life. Also Hindus were said to be vegatarians which is a very peaceful lifestyle, including not causing any violence to animals.
I think that the religious history of India influenced India's tradion of non-violence in many ways. It's leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a big believer of non-violence, and peace. Growing up in a home with strong belief in Vaishnavism (worship of Hindu God Vishnu) and Jainism influence as well, which had non violent beliefs, and thought that everything in the world was eternal. Another example is how the idea of reincarnation came up in Indian history which was the belief that what you do in your current life effects where you will be in your next life. So if you were to act violent and causing wars, your would most likely be something bad in your next life. Also Hindus were said to be vegatarians which is a very peaceful lifestyle, including not causing any violence to animals.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Blog # 7 Migration
Can migrations have a positive impact on the people and/or land receiving the immigrants?
Yes migration has positive impacts on all the people involved in it. That being said it also has negative impacts. It impacts the people living in the land that people are migrating to positively, because along with people come new ideas and ways to function in society that they hadn't discovered before or figured out yet. But it can also effect those people negatively because they're land is being taken over by outsiders who are using all of their resources causing them to have less to use for themselves. It affects the people migrating positively because they get to apply all their ways of producing and functioning in society on new land, and then from that being able to learn better ways to harvest and to function so they can become the best they can be. But a negative aspect for the people migrating to new lands would be that they wouldn't be adjusted to the new land, and all things tying together with that such as climate and the people there etc. If they couldn't cooperate with all the new variables in the way of them thriving to be the best that they could, most likely their society would crash and burn.
Yes migration has positive impacts on all the people involved in it. That being said it also has negative impacts. It impacts the people living in the land that people are migrating to positively, because along with people come new ideas and ways to function in society that they hadn't discovered before or figured out yet. But it can also effect those people negatively because they're land is being taken over by outsiders who are using all of their resources causing them to have less to use for themselves. It affects the people migrating positively because they get to apply all their ways of producing and functioning in society on new land, and then from that being able to learn better ways to harvest and to function so they can become the best they can be. But a negative aspect for the people migrating to new lands would be that they wouldn't be adjusted to the new land, and all things tying together with that such as climate and the people there etc. If they couldn't cooperate with all the new variables in the way of them thriving to be the best that they could, most likely their society would crash and burn.
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