PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sufism, Rashidun, Islamic Calendar
1 Mar 2017
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Structured way of seeing and interpreting things. Commonalities can be a source of peace and justice. Misunderstandings can be a source of conflict and violence. Islam, judaism and christianity are sometimes linked together by muslims as people of the book . The words radical islamic terrorism" does not come out of the president"s mouth. Jihad" does not come out of the president"s mouth. Obama didn"t want people to equate terrorism with a specific religion! 570-632 ce (common era secular time marker): prophet muhammad. Hijra: flight to medina that allowed the first islamic community to survive. The islamic calendar is dated with ah (the year of the hijra) Some say there are many different flavours of islam, but others (including the islamic state) say that there can only be one, and that others are just doing it wrong. Ummah: muslim community (community of muslims around the world) Big rift in deciding who should lead the islamic community.
