AR Rahman

He’s sold more than 100 million albums, and when he performed in concert in Dubai recently, more than 50,000 people flooded a stadium that normally sees crowds like that only for soccer. His soundtrack for the Tamil film “Padayappa” sold 1.2 million copies in two days, and the same happened with the Hindi film “Taal.” He’s received every conceivable music-related award in India, including the equivalent of an Oscar, and films with his music tend to become box office hits.
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History of Islam

Islam, A World Civilization

“Thus We have appointed you a middle nation, that you may be witnesses upon mankind.” (Quran, Surah [2:143])

General Characteristics of Islamic Civilization

Islam was destined to become a world religion and to create a civilization which stretched from one end of the globe to the other. Already during the early Muslim caliphates, first the Arabs, then the Persians and later the Turks set about to create classical Islamic civilization. Later, in the 13th century, both Africa and India became great centers of Islamic civilization and soon thereafter Muslim kingdoms were established in the Malay-Indonesian world while Chinese Muslims flourished throughout China.
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Yusuf Estes

Sheikh Yusuf Estes

And then after a while I raised up my head and I noticed something. No, I didn’t see birds or angels coming out of the sky nor did I hear voices or music, nor did I see bright lights and flashes. What I did notice was a change inside of me. I was aware now more than ever before that it was time for me to stop lying and cheating and doing sneaky business deals. It was time that I really work at being an honest and upright man. I knew now what I had to do. So I went upstairs and took a shower with the distinct idea that I was ‘washing’ away the sinful old person that I had become over the years. And I was now coming into a new, fresh life. A life based on truth and proof.
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Suharto

Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military leader, and the second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.[1]

A veteran of the war for independence (1945-49) against the Dutch, he became army chief of staff in 1965. He opposed the pro-Chinese policies of President Sukarno and, while still relatively unknown, crushed a Communist coup in 1965 and then moved to replace Sukarno. Suharto assumed key civilian cabinet offices in 1966, became acting president in 1967, and assumed the office of supreme commander of the army and was elected president in 1968. He was reelected every five years from 1973 to 1998. [2]
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Sukarno

Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970), Indonesian engineering graduate from Bandung Technical College[1] who, during the 1930s, led the nationalist movement against the Dutch authorities ruling the Netherlands East Indies (NEI). He was imprisoned and exiled but returned to chair a committee of four (Empat Serangkai, or Four-Leaf Clover) which, under Japanese occupation, ran an association of most of the island’s nationalist parties. He worked with the occupiers (i.e. the Japanese) to gain his country’s independence, which was eventually promised in September 1944.
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