RELIGST 3C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ummah, Tribalism, Tawhid
11 Jan 2015
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Tawhid - doctrine that there is one god. Prophets are to remind humanity of the duties to god. The dark ages ? (3) 1798 - present (modern period of islam) (2) medieval period 1258 - 1798 (napoleon invaded egypt, alexandria, the period of colonization of the. Migration to medina in 622 - created the ummah (community bound by faith) before they were bound by tribal affiliation, not by blood or tribal relations, which created a new concept. Abu bakr - chosen by a small community in 622, ruled for two years: islam started expanding into iraq and syria. Others who were not happy with ali: was killed in 661 in a masjid. Umayyad (661-750: going against the egalitarian message of islam, islam was primarily for the arabs, 747 - muslims in persia started a revolution that lead to the second dynasty, the abbasids, capital damascus, syria. Abbasids 750-1258: imported cultures from abroad into islam .
