The Five Pillars and the Qur'an

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This paper discusses the composition process and the final book of the Qur'an. It describes the history of the text and how it was catalogued and brought together. The paper then discusses the five pillars that are central to the ritual of the practice of Islam and discusses the understanding of these rituals according to the Qur'an and Islamic law.

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"All Muslims are brothers (Durant, 182). A critical part of the modern politicization of Islam is that the political movement seeks to impose on Islamic societies as a whole. This is a distinct development from traditional Islam, which is a religion, and one which has offer "reassuring, familiar, and functional" faith to millions for centuries (Fuller, 16-17). The distinctive emergence of a political Islam means that there are strong forces within Islam which reject the concept of an inclusive religion in which all Muslims are seen as brothers, and attempting to impose on all of Islam something of a nationalistic movement (Fuller, 17, 21; Schwartz, 17)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ahmed, Akbar. Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. London, England: Routledge: 2002.
• Dalacoura, Katerina. Islam, Liberalism, and Human Rights. London, England: I. B. Tauris, 2003.
• Durant, Will. The Age of Faith. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950.
• Fuller, Graham E. The Future of Political Islam. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Horowitz, David. Unholy Alliance. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003.

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