SOCI 1001 Lecture 8: RELI Week 8 Muslim Beliefs

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Tamy Superle

Document Summary

Revelations that came to muhammad from god over a 22 year period. Written in whatever was at hand at the time and in haste because they arrived unannounced. Early revelations in mecca: short prophetic indictments (social) Late revelations in mecca: longer interpretations of last prophets (religious) Revelations from medina: arguments, discourses, legal pronouncements (political) Longer and developed (150-200 verses, appear earlier in the qur(cid:859)a(cid:374) e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though are later revelations) Arranged in 114 suras (chapters)- each of them a revelatory event (114 bursts from. Muhammad, every time he was spoken to by god) Presented in order of length, not chronology, not genre, not theme. Textual critisism is not common in islam, uthman destroyed any other types of text. Esp in christianity with the bible it is, using manuscripts that survived and creating the nt. Happens by the outside to the inside and within the inside.