SOSC 1733 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sistine Chapel, Sharia, Kasbah
29 Oct 2018
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Jerusalem is considered a holy city to christians jews and muslims to have taken in jerusalem: also mention in the torah, which is an important jewish text. Significance: christians believe jesus died in jerusalem, muslim believe prophet muhammad visited jerusalem at one point. Its home to the pope and a trove of iconic are and architecture. Varanasi, india: one of the oldest cities of the world, very sacred for hindus and has about 1500 places of worship, die in this city, bound to enter heaven. Importance to buddhists who believe that buddha began preaching just four miles outside of this city. Mecca: city in saudi arabia that is of major religious importance to muslims. The islamic city: often used to refer to historic urban centres constructed during the islamic empire. Islam has been referred to as an urban religion. Internal spatial structure: built around natural laws, religion and culture, shariah law, social organization.
