RELG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Geonim, Ottoman Empire, Maimonides
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Relg 101 - introduction to world religions: western traditions - lecture 7: jewish experience under islamic rule and medieval europe. Early 1st century, islam appears and spread to major parts of italy, borders of india, Middle east and becomes one of the major religion in the world. Jewish rule under islam was better than rule under christians. The previous messages due to human imperfection were incomplete and imperfect. Muslim believes that the final message through mohammad was prophet. That is why he is considered to be the best and last prophet. Jewish people were starting to adopt arabic as one of the primary language. We also see the rise of a new type of religious scholar: gaonim. Emergence of significant product of jewish religious life (ex. The most influential jewish philosopher in this period is maimonides. In 1492, christian forces succeeded in establishing christian religion in spain. Jewish people continued to be in exile.
