RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Abu Hanifa, Kufa, Sunnah

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2Q03
• Professor: Danny M.Pincivero

Document Summary

Goal of religious life is to live by demands of the divine qurba: - closeness to god. Covers our connection with fellow human beings as well. No concept of secularism (demoting religion to person sphere) Islam came with a demand of creating a just society, sharia is how to create a just society. First source of law is the quran, followed by the sunnah. Sunnah can be divided into three aspects. --> what prophet did (can also become part of hadith) --> acquiesce, prophet did not say, nor do, but someone did something and prophet did object (can also become part of hadith when said by someone) not. Books about the sunnah written after prophet"s death. First book in 795 muwatta by malik. Islam expanded after death of prophet, absorbed many different people not just arabs. Persians, africans may have different customary laws, different situations.