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                  Still,  for  a  more  effective,   add     different    ways      of
               we will take the brazilian Shi'a      interpreting  law  norms  and
               community  as  an  example            behaviors.
               through  a  critical  analytical         The speech of the primordial
               method.       According        to     rights  derive  from  religious
               academic  jobs-latest  scientific,    canons is supported, to a large
               Islam  has  grown  significantly      extent,  from  the  establishment
               in Europe as the second largest       of  a  fundamental  dividing  line
               religion in number of followers       set to Axial period.
               (38.112.000)  and  the  third  in        It  is  understandable  that  it
               the United States (2.454.000).        was during this period, between
                  In    Latin    America     the     600  and  800  B.C.  which
               Muslims  totaling  1.085.000.         emerge          the        major
               Already  in  Africa,  Muslims         denominational         religions:
               amount  to  315  million  for  a      Buddhism       and     Hinduism
               total       population         of     (India):   Confucianism      and
               778.484.000.                          Taoism (far East): monotheism
                  In Oceania, totaling 248.000       (Middle     East);   rationalism
               for  a  total  population  of         (Europe)  and  thinkers  such  as
               29.460.000,  but  it  is  in  Asia    Zoroaster in Persia, Buddha in
               that  the  Muslim  population  is     India,  Lao  Tzu  and  Confucius
               much  higher  with  812  million      in       China,       elaborated
               fans to a total population of 3.      metaphysical  work  on  the
               588.  877.000  (BINICHESKI,           limits of the essentially human,
               2010: 113).                           which would later influence on
                  The      diversity     among       formation of thought about the
               Muslims  is  as  big  as  the         parameters  of  the  human
               ignorance  that  has  him  out  of    dignity.
               Islamic countries.                       In  this  regard,  it  should  be
                  There  is  no  homogeneity  in     recognized  that  the  human
               everyday  religious  practices.       rights  story  has  your  home  in
               This  ethnic,  geographical  and      centuries XI and X B.C., when
               cultural  plurality,  even  if  they   it establishes, under the unified
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