RLG204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sharia, Ijma, Sunnah
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Week 5 february 6-the foundations of new civilization. Shari"ah mindset: notion that islam was universalist and has 2 functions: religion (islam only true religion) and dominion (control, dominion-every should be under islam, monotheisms: christianity, judaism, hinduism zoroastrianism. Islam became non-racialized religion: persian language became most imp. Language but other languages developed such as ottoman, urdu, Homogenous civilization: ideal of medina- muhammad"s sunnah became the model of the civilization (how he lived, what he versioned, systemization of the shariah- into a legal system. Islamic shariah was used as international law until.
