ISLA 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monophysitism, Monotheism, Buraq
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In the hijaz, there wasn"t a lot of spread of the monotheistic religions. There were differences with regards to the humanity of jesus, some people saw him as divine, and others saw him as human. Nestorians: human nature of jesus, they were in the sassanid empire. Mohammad was in contact with the christians of syria when he was travelling in the caravans. They had an interpretive aspect, there was leeway and room for debate and argument/ interpretation aspect of the scriptural sources. Abraham ishmael (hanif: people who lived before islam, arabs who were monotheist, who didn"t follow polytheistic traditions and were not pagans, but they were not jews or christians) Pilgrimage or holy month, it was an area of peace. We know there were jews in medina but in mecca it was mainly pagan arabs. Different muslims debate whether or not the prophet is illiterate. Some people say that because he is a trader he can"t be illiterate.