Some Q'uran stuff but mainly guest lec

Question 1

Q’uran: tradition being formed, about … and …

Answer 1

recitation; sound

Question 2

Abrahamic: used to characterize the three …, because Abraham is at the … of all three texts: idea of … is shared by all three religions

Answer 2

monotheisms; center; patriarchy

Question 3

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 …

Answer 3

Rethinking Islam; themselves; relationship; God

Question 4

“Silent” Islam: Islam as experienced by …, their … relationships with the transcendent God
Islam as ..; an individual’s relationship with the transcendent experiential; majoritarian

Answer 4

individual Muslims; individual; faith

Question 5

“Loud” Islam: Islam as …, …; associated with assertions of … by religious, political and other elites; concerned with definitions of …, …

Answer 5

ideology; identity; power; orthodoxy; heterodoxy

Question 6

The Qu’ran is …, according to Muslims; the term “Qur’an” means …

Answer 6

God’s Word; recitation

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Mecca; Iqra; recite; Quranic writings

Question 8

Apparently Mohammed’s wife went to a Christian minister who said that he’s maybe a

Answer 8

prophet

Question 9

people were drawn by the … of Mohammed’s teachings, so his popularity increased

Answer 9

beauty

Question 10

(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 …

Answer 10

aristocracy; threat; power; slapped; crying; became a Muslim

Question 11

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

Answer 11

gins; spirits; scripture; rival

Question 12

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 …

Answer 12

Kaaba; read a piece of the Qu’ran; “beauty”

Question 13

Aesthetics (beauty) a sign of …

Answer 13

Divine origin

Question 14

Listening (…) as … with the Divine

Answer 14

sama; communion

Question 15

God is … and loves …

Answer 15

beautiful; beauty

Question 16

the different recitations are …, because everyone has their own …, and the recitations interprets the same text in …

Answer 16

subjective; experience; multiple ways

Question 17

… acts as part of the aesthetics

Answer 17

sound patter

Question 18

Hafiz al-quran: “…”: one who has … the Qur’an

Answer 18

Guardian of the Qu’ran; memorized

Question 19

Hifz=

Answer 19

memorization

Question 20

Language and style of Arabic considered

Answer 20

inimitable

Question 21

Ijaz: … of the Qur’an; proof of its …

Answer 21

inimitability; divine origen

Question 22

translations of the quran are not considered the

Answer 22

actual text

Question 23

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

Answer 23

arabic; sacred; translatable; sound pattern

Question 24

Qur’an can be experienced as … when written in Arabic

Answer 24

visual text

Question 25

beauty of text appreciated with the eyes; art of …: inscribing the sacred

Answer 25

calligraphy

Question 26

… declaring God; idea expressed in Surah 2

Answer 26

nature

Question 27

quran as the center of an … through which individuals can experience the sacred

Answer 27

aesthetic worldview

Question 28

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

Answer 28

poetry; poets; intermediaries; poetry

Question 29

Rumi: devised a … form to connect with Allah; controversial practice; wrote poetry

Answer 29

dance

Question 30

religions have … and … facets

Answer 30

aesthetic; ideological