Assistant Professor, Ferrum College
The book No God But God introduced many elements of the origins, evolution, and future of Islam. Reza Aslan developed important arguments throughout the book such as the stories of Muhammad, Islam, and different ideologies. The book contained analysis of certain elements of the beginning …
Into days world, the religion of Islam is the most overlooked religion, by people all over. Depending on what is said about Muslims, on the News channels, it will reflect on how people view all Muslims. It is pretty sad to see the judgment of …
Islam is a faith that is harshly judged and misunderstood by outside eyes that do not take the time to understand the context of the religion. Muslims can face hard discrimination and racist comments can be slurred at them when they exhibit their faith. This …
Despite Islam being one of fastest and largest growing religious groups in the world and is one of the three Abrahamic religions, it is not widely understood or studied within the Western world. Many know about Islam only by what they see in video games, …
In the book, No god but God, the author Reza Aslan goes through the history of pre-Islamic religion, the creation of the religion, the understanding of specific parts if the religion, the reformation, and its current issues in the year 2005 when this version of …
No God, but God Aslan’s “No God, but God”, is a well written piece of literature that allows the reader to take a deeper look into some of the problems and trials that face the Islamic people and community. This book goes a long …
The study of Islam and the culture behind it is very interesting, yet confusing to many people. Even those that study it are still presented with many questions involving the nature and degree of how Muslims treat each other, how they view their own religion, …
If you look at any part of todays media, you will find some sort of anti islam messge forced down our thoarts televison, social media,ect. Unknown to Roden, in the past recent days all that has been shown through the media was the most recent …
Being born in the nineties, I was old enough to remember September 11th, 2001. This meant that I grew up around people who chose to hate an entire religious sect than try to understand Islam as a whole. They chose to teach, or at least …
‘No god but God’ The Islamic faith is perhaps one of the most complicated and simultaneously beautiful religions in the world. It is not bound to one rigid code for salvation, it is instead a fluid and vast path of morality of which its …
