Now that you have read a little about Islam (pp. 252-258) and seen about an hour of the video, post at least three questions here. Make sure your questions are spread throughout the reading and not clustered around the first page or so.
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1. The Lombard Cross was said to have been hung in churches for prayer for victories, but did men in battle carry them around for luck and for prayer? 2. What are the main and most important difference between the Shia and Sunni groups? 3. How many people and were there any specific kind of people who went on the Hijrah? Also, what kind of preparations had to be made in order to go on the Hijrah?
1.Why do Muslims bow in lines and with their shoes off? 2.Originally, did each "clan" of Islam have their own gods? 3.What did Mohammad's wife and uncle die of?
1. What made them like poetry so much and how did they come up with this form of literature? 2. How come Muhammad combined other religions to make Islam, why didn't he just make it something new and all new beliefs? 3. What made Islam spread so fast, what was the eye catching thing about this religion?
1. How did the pagans who were not allowed religious freedom by the Muslims respond to this denial? 2. Who was Muhammad's nephew Ali, and did he ever become caliph like the Shia believed he should? 3. The reading talked about the Islamic version of Heaven. Do they have a version of Hell, and what is it like?
1) In the reading, in the third paragraph, it states that monotheism is more practiacal than traditional Pagenism. Why is that?
2) What/who is Tetihucan and how does it connect with Islam?
3) In the video it talked about how everyone was concidered and treated equally. But in the reading it says that women, even though they had privilages, were more or less repressed. When and why did this happen?
1. Did Muhammad's death lead to the 2 groups with different beliefs (shia and Sunni)? 2. How long did it take to complete the Hijrah? 3. Why is Medina also called Yathrib?
1. were people who did not want to convert to Islam punished or were they accepted?
2. who were the Parthians?
3. When Muhammad won against other meccans, other tribes wanted to join Muhammad so they could win battles too. Why were they so eager to join the Muslims after a few victories? Did this lead to a big conversion of these tribes making Islam bigger?
1. Is there a connection the Boudins' veneration of water to Muhammad's vision of monotheism? Does water (symbolically) factor into the Koran?
2. Mecca, a public and multi-cultural/religious place, was the site of a lot of Muhammad's preaching; while he was outcast because of this, could his preaching have taken affect if he preached elsewhere, to a more close-knit cultural group?
3. Muhammad eventually resorted to violence when taking Mecca, how does the Islamic faith justify violence?
1. How did Mohammad's wife and uncle die? 2. What was the different between each clan of Islam? Did they ahve different beliefs of how to worship god/gods? 3. How is monotheism more practical than paganism?
1. How did Jesus/Christianity differ between the secular and the spiritual? 2. Why was Persia basically the only Empire to hold off the Muslims? 3. How is it that Islam appealed so greatly to so many people and spread so rapidly? 4. How did Islam conquer so much land so fast?
1. Why would accept some religion that was just new? Did they not kind of scoff at Muhammad and just think he was making things up? What appealed in Islam? 2. Did Muhammad propose to start writing the Koran down or was that after him? 3. Did Muhammad not believe in continuing his bloodline and having a child?
1.One question I already possesed was why the Arabs/Islamic people didn't suffer the same cultural slump that the other peoples in Europe did? 2. Although the split between the Shia and Sunni occured becuase of differnce in heir beliefs, what is forcing the groups apart now and why doesn't one take over the other? 3.Why do people pray in groups? Is there a belief that prayer cannot happen without a Masque/Group/Priest?
• What does it mean when it says "that the Arab society was already demographically robust"?
Definition of demography: "a statistic characterizing human populations" (wordreference.com). Basically, the line means that the Arabs already consisted of a large number of people.
• Who was Antarah ibn-Shaddad al-Absi?
He was born from an Arabian man and an African slave, so he was looked down upon because he was "illegitimate" because of his mixed race. He eventually gained attention because he was an amazing warrior and poet, and his father granted him freedom.
• What is the Sharia today?
Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence and for Muslims living outside the domain. Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business, contracts, family, sexuality, hygiene, and social issues. There is no strictly static codified set of laws of sharia. Sharia is more of a system of how law ought to serve humanity, a consensus of the unified spirit. Islamic law is now the most widely used religious law, and one of the three most common legal systems of the world alongside common law and civil law.[2] During the Islamic Golden Age, classical Islamic law had a fairly significant influence on the development of common law,[3] and also influenced the development of several civil law institutions.[4] Pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
1. How was Mohammed able to justify his sightings and encounter with archangel gabriel to the people of mecca?
2. Why did some countries decide to take Islam to a political level by making Sharia law the standard?
3. Why do Shia and Sunni have very different beliefs if their is one main thing separating them: Shia believe that caliphates must be descendants of Ali, and Sunni believe that the caliphates can be any just man from Mohammed's tribe. Plus, Caliphates are not very prominent in todays world, so why is it still a very big issue?
1 When was the Quran written down? 2 Why did the battles between the Romans and Persians stop, and then suddenly start up again? 3 Why didn't Muslims differentiate between the secular and spiritual parts of life like Jesus?
1. How did his wife get killed? 2. What are the differences and/or similarities of the Shia and Sunni? 3. How did the Islamic culture spread so fast and conquer so many lands?
Who were the Arabs trading with and raiding to support their economy? As Islam spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East, did it change at all to partially reflect the native beliefs of the people in the area? Did Islam spread at all following the large expansion that appears to have ended in 756?
My internet broke, and I finally got it working now. Sorry this is so late.
21 comments:
1. The Lombard Cross was said to have been hung in churches for prayer for victories, but did men in battle carry them around for luck and for prayer?
2. What are the main and most important difference between the Shia and Sunni groups?
3. How many people and were there any specific kind of people who went on the Hijrah? Also, what kind of preparations had to be made in order to go on the Hijrah?
1.Why do Muslims bow in lines and with their shoes off?
2.Originally, did each "clan" of Islam have their own gods?
3.What did Mohammad's wife and uncle die of?
1. What made them like poetry so much and how did they come up with this form of literature?
2. How come Muhammad combined other religions to make Islam, why didn't he just make it something new and all new beliefs?
3. What made Islam spread so fast, what was the eye catching thing about this religion?
1. How did the pagans who were not allowed religious freedom by the Muslims respond to this denial?
2. Who was Muhammad's nephew Ali, and did he ever become caliph like the Shia believed he should?
3. The reading talked about the Islamic version of Heaven. Do they have a version of Hell, and what is it like?
What are the most distinct differences between the Shia and Sunni?
What are examples of the departments of life that Muhammad covered?
Why is the Islamic religion more practical than Christianity, Judaism, and paganism?
1) In the reading, in the third paragraph, it states that monotheism is more practiacal than traditional Pagenism. Why is that?
2) What/who is Tetihucan and how does it connect with Islam?
3) In the video it talked about how everyone was concidered and treated equally. But in the reading it says that women, even though they had privilages, were more or less repressed. When and why did this happen?
1. Did Muhammad's death lead to the 2 groups with different beliefs (shia and Sunni)?
2. How long did it take to complete the Hijrah?
3. Why is Medina also called Yathrib?
1. were people who did not want to convert to Islam punished or were they accepted?
2. who were the Parthians?
3. When Muhammad won against other meccans, other tribes wanted to join Muhammad so they could win battles too. Why were they so eager to join the Muslims after a few victories? Did this lead to a big conversion of these tribes making Islam bigger?
1. what were the religions of Muhammad's followers, before they became Muslim?
2. who influenced Muhammad? was there a religious leader or any ruler who influenced Muhammad to preach God's laws?
3. a. what effects did the Islamic expansion have? was it mainly positive or was it mainly negative? b. what effects did this have on the economy?
1. Is there a connection the Boudins' veneration of water to Muhammad's vision of monotheism? Does water (symbolically) factor into the Koran?
2. Mecca, a public and multi-cultural/religious place, was the site of a lot of Muhammad's preaching; while he was outcast because of this, could his preaching have taken affect if he preached elsewhere, to a more close-knit cultural group?
3. Muhammad eventually resorted to violence when taking Mecca, how does the Islamic faith justify violence?
1. How did Mohammad's wife and uncle die?
2. What was the different between each clan of Islam? Did they ahve different beliefs of how to worship god/gods?
3. How is monotheism more practical than paganism?
1. How did Jesus/Christianity differ between the secular and the spiritual?
2. Why was Persia basically the only Empire to hold off the Muslims?
3. How is it that Islam appealed so greatly to so many people and spread so rapidly?
4. How did Islam conquer so much land so fast?
1. Why would accept some religion that was just new? Did they not kind of scoff at Muhammad and just think he was making things up? What appealed in Islam?
2. Did Muhammad propose to start writing the Koran down or was that after him?
3. Did Muhammad not believe in continuing his bloodline and having a child?
1.One question I already possesed was why the Arabs/Islamic people didn't suffer the same cultural slump that the other peoples in Europe did?
2. Although the split between the Shia and Sunni occured becuase of differnce in heir beliefs, what is forcing the groups apart now and why doesn't one take over the other?
3.Why do people pray in groups? Is there a belief that prayer cannot happen without a Masque/Group/Priest?
• What does it mean when it says "that the Arab society was already demographically robust"?
Definition of demography: "a statistic characterizing human populations" (wordreference.com). Basically, the line means that the Arabs already consisted of a large number of people.
• Who was Antarah ibn-Shaddad al-Absi?
He was born from an Arabian man and an African slave, so he was looked down upon because he was "illegitimate" because of his mixed race. He eventually gained attention because he was an amazing warrior and poet, and his father granted him freedom.
• What is the Sharia today?
Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence and for Muslims living outside the domain. Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business, contracts, family, sexuality, hygiene, and social issues.
There is no strictly static codified set of laws of sharia. Sharia is more of a system of how law ought to serve humanity, a consensus of the unified spirit.
Islamic law is now the most widely used religious law, and one of the three most common legal systems of the world alongside common law and civil law.[2] During the Islamic Golden Age, classical Islamic law had a fairly significant influence on the development of common law,[3] and also influenced the development of several civil law institutions.[4]
Pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
1) How did the Muslims enforce the people who they conquered by force to practice Islam?
2) Did Mohammad have a "right hand man", a second in command, or similar.
3)Did Islam manage to pass the Indus river in any extent, or did it just stop at the banks?
1. How was Mohammed able to justify his sightings and encounter with archangel gabriel to the people of mecca?
2. Why did some countries decide to take Islam to a political level by making Sharia law the standard?
3. Why do Shia and Sunni have very different beliefs if their is one main thing separating them: Shia believe that caliphates must be descendants of Ali, and Sunni believe that the caliphates can be any just man from Mohammed's tribe. Plus, Caliphates are not very prominent in todays world, so why is it still a very big issue?
1 When was the Quran written down?
2 Why did the battles between the Romans and Persians stop, and then suddenly start up again?
3 Why didn't Muslims differentiate between the secular and spiritual parts of life like Jesus?
1. How did his wife get killed?
2. What are the differences and/or similarities of the Shia and Sunni?
3. How did the Islamic culture spread so fast and conquer so many lands?
What are defining points about the Shia and Sunni groups, which separate them?
Are people born in to the Shia or Sunni groups? or is it a choice?
When was the Quran written?
sorry this is coming now, my internet did not work at my house last night
Who were the Arabs trading with and raiding to support their economy?
As Islam spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East, did it change at all to partially reflect the native beliefs of the people in the area?
Did Islam spread at all following the large expansion that appears to have ended in 756?
My internet broke, and I finally got it working now. Sorry this is so late.
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