RELG 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ayah, Taqiya, Tawhid

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 207
• Professor: Julia Stenzel, Hadi Fakhoury, Paolo Livieri

Document Summary

Islam; they all use one qur"an: caliphs earlier caliphs had qur"ans that passed onto uthman, structure and arrangement of qur"an: 114 suras (chapters) from longest to shortest, all suras begins with basmalah in the name of god, the merciful and the compassionate except one, chapters are divided into verses: ayat(signs, meccan/medinan suras differences, liturgical divisions: qur"an divided into 30 subdivision, called juz", so that they can be read during the month of ramadan, al fatiha: the opening , most often recited sura of the qur"an (like the. Lord"s prayer for christians, has the same function: language & style: verbatim word of god: god is speaking in first person, muhammad is the second person addressee, the qur"anic message: tawhid (absolute and one god), obedience (those who doesn"t obey will be punished or destroyed), judgment (the fate of ancient peoples,, and the final judgment), guidance (five pillars, specific matters, need of the muslim community(especially in the.