RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Nepotism, Salah, Kufa

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2Q03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

Early period after muhammad"s death it was problematic looking at role models there is a tension between what you believe in and what you read there is a standardization oh history; a re-reading of history. Orthodox: originally meant the right way in many ways when reading about history we are told it is orthodox. Because history was told orally: we have to be aware; of who is writing when he"s writing and why. Succession of muhammad he is writing in his last sermon he told his people he was going to die soon there is no definite answer/report to who shall be appointed as a successor. We do know about a place called saqifa it was a meeting place: a hall in medina, to make important political decisions, there were two groups in median the migrants who came with muhammad; from mecca- Saqifa; they found that everyone was from the ansar, when abu.