RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Central Asia, Khawarij, Al-Qaeda
9 Oct 2017
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Arabic and hebrew, are similar: most words have a three consonant root. Muslims are born into muslim families, or they can become muslim by conversion. Jewish conversion require circumcision, christian conversion require baptism. in islam the ritual of converting is something : the shade: la elah ella allah, The muslim population: indonesia: 207m, pakistan: 160m, india: 150m, bangladesh: 135m, egypt: 75m, turkey: 70m, nigeria: 67, iran: 64m. Islam has the reputation to be the religion of the sword, but most countries are not colonized. Egypt is the only arabic country on the list. so culturally, the most populated muslim countries are non arab. Most arabs are muslim, but there are muslims everywhere in the world. Muslim not equal arab, and muslim not equal arabic. Origins of islam is abraham: through ismail, son of hagar (as opposed to. Hagar and ismail go south into (in jewish bible they are nomads: they travel with no homes and do trades).
