PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: God Speaks, Abbasid Caliphate, Surah
20 Apr 2016
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Quran = recitation/reading in which god speaks in the first person plural ( we ) Written down in the 7th century c. e. by muhammad"s companions, supposedly by the 3rd caliph. The quran is seen as the ultimate guide for life. It is meant to make life more simple/easy. Surahs are ordered approximately by their length. Each surah portrays some principle, adination, encouragement for life. Collections of sayings and stories that are attributed to muhammad. ~200 years post-muhammad they settle on ~6000 hadith. **many common muslim practices are found in the hadith but not in the quran. Muhammad = founder and the last prophet. He was not the first muslim either. He believed that humans/nature all submit to god in some sort of way and therefore everyone is muslim. Prior to muhammad; humans were ignorant & could not fully submit because they were missing some of the revelations that were not introduced until muhammad came.
