islam Flashcards
the ‘Command of god for man’
Shar’ia
‘model pattern of behaviour’ in islam
Sunna
Capital of Islam under the Umayyad Caliphate.
Damascus, Syria.
Had a unique theological development. By its Debates with Hellenistic Christianity.
Capital of Islam under the Abbasid Caliphate.
Baghdad, iraq
1258 CE.
What occurred at this time?
The sacking of Baghdad. In the fall of Islam to the Mongol invasion.
Who was Khadija In relation to Muhammad？
a rich widow fifteen years senior to him in age, who had put him in charge of her trade, was so impressed by his honesty and other moral qualities that she offered herself to him in marriage.
Muhammad, who was then twenty-five, accepted the offer and did not re-marry until after her death when he was fifty years old.
Muslims have developed a special art ofits recitation called
Tajwid
Resided in kind of chant.
compiled in aseries of works six of which, composed in the 3rd/gth century, came tobe accepted as the authoritative second source of the content of Islambesides the Qur’an.
the Hadith or the Apostolic Tradition,
literally means the ‘trodden path’ and was used bythe pre-Islamic Arabs to denote the model behaviour established by theforefathers of a tribe.
Sunna
three important concepts in Islamic jurisprudence and practice:
