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Islam Midterm HU
religion 1560
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Muhammad- birth and first revelation | born in mecca 570 receives first Qur'an revelation 610 |
| Hijra | move from Mecca to Medina 622, begins Islamic calendar |
| return and death | return to Mecca 630, dies 632 |
| hadith | reports regarding muhammads life |
| sunna | path of life of muhammad, way of living and acting exmplified by the prophet, in accordance with god's will |
| sharia | islamic law |
| muslim | one who submits |
| islam | submission- to will of god |
| jahiliyya | ignorance of god, before revelation |
| bedouins | 6th centrury, nomadic, need oasis, tribal identity, oral tradition, hospitality, honor and revenge |
| mecca pre-mohamed | trade depot, Kaaba WAS precinct, business, idols and polytheism |
| Khadja | wife of muhammad, marries at 25, she was widow |
| first revelation | thinks he is crazy, talks to Khadja, speaks to christian who says he s a prophet |
| Kaaba | reestablishes purpose for monotheism |
| Hijra | golden age, city of the prophet (Medina/Yathrib), spreads word to community |
| battles and warfare | fighting meccans, Badr Uhud Trench, guerillas |
| rightly guided caliphs | abn batur, umar, uthman, ali |
| ali | shiites accept hum over umayyad who is followed by abbasid |
| sunni and shia differences | succession about ali vs umayyad, conception of leadership- human vs divine, infallible, Iran |
| qur'an | scripture of islam, word of god revealed to muhammad through Jibril, 114 suras composed of ayas (verses) |
| sharia | the revealed law, commands and prohibitions of islam, consensus and analogy |
| tawhid | unity, affirmation of god's oneness |
| shirk | associating others with God, worshiping other than god, unforgivable sin |
| hadith | collections of transmitted reports about the prophet |
| islam | law, behavior, BODY |
| iman | theology, MIND |
| ihsan | mystcism, sufism, HEART |
| fatwa | ruling |
| ijtihad | intellectual struggle |
| ijma | consensus |
| shaykh | Sufism, values loyalty can still have families and jobs, traced back to mohamed, part of brother/sisterhoods |
| taqlid | blind imitation without explanation of religious authority |
| sober and intoxicated sufis | no distinction between self and god, can be dangerous because one could think they are god |
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