SOCC29H3 Lecture Notes - Persian Language, Ethnocentrism, Laura Bush
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Week 1) family and gender in the middle east. 1970s, war breaks out between, supply goes down and price goes up because oil was kept to themselves. They command a lot of attention and concern. Gender and family specific, lots of political turmoil, military intervention, the region has been justified by pointing to the status of women. Arab world -> smaller subset of middle east countries (22 countries in total) Muslim word -> it is confused, 20% of the global muslim live there -> egypt is the main but the 5 largest is outside of middle east. Begins with prophet muhammad, seen vision and introduced islam and claim to be the true religion. Unified the arabian peninsula under a single political. After his death, he has successors (friends) and dispute over this (4th caliph) resulted to the split of islam into shia and sunni.
