RELG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quran, Tawhid, Surah

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Charles Douglas Fletcher

Document Summary

Islam: the arabic word islam (cid:862)to tu(cid:396)(cid:374) o(cid:374)eself o(cid:448)e(cid:396) to, to resign o(cid:374)eself, to su(cid:271)(cid:373)it. (cid:863) i(cid:374) (cid:396)eligious te(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)olog(cid:455), it (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s su(cid:271)(cid:373)issio(cid:374) o(cid:396) su(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)de(cid:396) to god, o(cid:396) to god(cid:859)s (cid:449)ill. In the broadest sense, islam (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)su(cid:271)(cid:373)issio(cid:374)/su(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)de(cid:396) to god(cid:863) as a(cid:374) u(cid:374)de(cid:374)ia(cid:271)le fact of existence. Now god enters the discussion by revealing the following verses to. Relations to judaism and christianity: the oneness of god (tawhid, every revealed religion is one of the forms of islam. Three dimensions of islam: islam submission = practice, iman faith= thinking/believing, ihsan doing what is beautiful= tuning into real through a sincere, intentional act. Islamic learning: the mosque, the ulma, or learned scholars, the madrasa (place of study, the fuqaha, or jurists. Koranic exegesis: a koran commentary usually provides a verse by verse explanation of the whole book, any scholar could write a koran commentary from the perspective of his own specialty and explain his own understanding of the text.