RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Persians, Jahiliyyah, Qibla

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

Document Summary

Mecca: muhammad"s first important act after entering the city was to go to the ka"ba and purify it by smashing the poly theistic idols. The conquest of mecca, after the hijra, what happened from mecca to medina. The constitution of medina: the different badr, trench. The treaty: the pagan and muhammad when he migrated to medina, it was a treaty which was known as hudaybiyyah treaty. After this treaty, the fllowing year, muhammad"s people, went to the city of mecca, it was something for 3 days. The rituals, used to be practicesed by pagans, and muslims, the rituals, were familiar to muhamad followers, but they wanted to change the rituals. The following year, after the treaty, there was a killing. The killing between major people, breaching the treaty. He moved with 700-800 muslims, but when he wanted to come back to mecca, there were about 100 000 muslims.