ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Evangelicalism, Shahada, Arab Nationalism
20 Nov 2017
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This region has great cultural and linguistic diversity. Arabic is the most widely spoken language in the region. Potentially unifying the people of this region is the islamic religion. In the judeo-christian tradition, sharing many of the same prophets, including, Quran-koran; believed by muslims to be a look of revelations received by. Muhammad from allah (god), representing god"s highest religious and moral revelations. Islam : submission to the will of god . Islam currently has the second-most adherent among the world"s religions. Like christianity, the origin of islam is within judaism. Within 100 years of muhammad"s coming to medina, islam and the arab empire had. Within 300 years, the current boundaries of the islamic culture area were established. This region is defined as the large, continuous part of the world where islam is the. If areas where islam is major cultural and political force in society were included, then predominant religion the continuous islamic region made much larger still.
