Some Q'uran stuff but mainly guest lec Flashcards
Q’uran: tradition being formed, about … and …
recitation; sound
Abrahamic: used to characterize the three …, because Abraham is at the … of all three texts: idea of … is shared by all three religions
monotheisms; center; patriarchy
Mohammed Arkoun: author of …, said that people have incomplete understanding of Islam because it is rarely discussed in terms of how Muslims understand …/their … with …
Rethinking Islam; themselves; relationship; God
“Silent” Islam: Islam as experienced by …, their … relationships with the transcendent God
Islam as ..; an individual’s relationship with the transcendent experiential; majoritarian
individual Muslims; individual; faith
“Loud” Islam: Islam as …, …; associated with assertions of … by religious, political and other elites; concerned with definitions of …, …
ideology; identity; power; orthodoxy; heterodoxy
The Qu’ran is …, according to Muslims; the term “Qur’an” means …
God’s Word; recitation
Mohammed would meditate in a cave in …, and heard a sound that said … which means … this was the commencement of the …; Quran Sura 96 is where this command is recounted
Mecca; Iqra; recite; Quranic writings
Apparently Mohammed’s wife went to a Christian minister who said that he’s maybe a
prophet
people were drawn by the … of Mohammed’s teachings, so his popularity increased
beauty
(Umar ibn Khattab) he was part of the … of Mecca, viewed Mohammed as a … to his …, discovered that his sister was going to Mohammed’s recitations, and claimed that she was a traitor. he followed her after she denied the accusation, and fount that she was in fact attending the recitations. He confronted and .. her. but when he listened to the recitation he started … and …
aristocracy; threat; power; slapped; crying; became a Muslim
In Arab society during Mohammed’s time, poets were seen as “special” people possessed by … (…). People accused Mohammed of this. Mohammed denied these accusations and said he was receiving … from God. Some of the poets became Mohammed’s …, because he was taking away their audiences
gins; spirits; scripture; rival
Navid Kermani: God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Qur’an
Labid ibn Rabi’a–> poems hung on the …
Labid was challenged to … and was moved by the …
Kaaba; read a piece of the Qu’ran; “beauty”
Aesthetics (beauty) a sign of …
Divine origin
Listening (…) as … with the Divine
sama; communion
God is … and loves …
beautiful; beauty
the different recitations are …, because everyone has their own …, and the recitations interprets the same text in …
subjective; experience; multiple ways
… acts as part of the aesthetics
sound patter
Hafiz al-quran: “…”: one who has … the Qur’an
Guardian of the Qu’ran; memorized
Hifz=
memorization
Language and style of Arabic considered
inimitable
Ijaz: … of the Qur’an; proof of its …
inimitability; divine origen
translations of the quran are not considered the
actual text
only … is used for liturgical purposes. it is a … language . this is because its aesthetic is not …, to do so eliminates the …, which would take away from the text
arabic; sacred; translatable; sound pattern
Qur’an can be experienced as … when written in Arabic
visual text
beauty of text appreciated with the eyes; art of …: inscribing the sacred
calligraphy
… declaring God; idea expressed in Surah 2
nature
quran as the center of an … through which individuals can experience the sacred
aesthetic worldview
spoken/performed … is essential to this culture; … and … between human and the sacred
development of … as both source and product of religious/mystical experience in Islam
poetry; poets; intermediaries; poetry
Rumi: devised a … form to connect with Allah; controversial practice; wrote poetry
dance
religions have … and … facets
aesthetic; ideological
