RELG 203 Lecture 1: Week 11-1 Lecture Notes
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Pre-islamic arabia and the setting of muhammad"s reforms. Quite often, the study of islam begins with the seventh century ce, when the religion emerged, with pre-islamic arabia" essentially acting as a foil for the religion that was to come. This sui generis approach to islam"s origins masks its embeddedness in a broader world that is connected in multiple ways with points both east and west. So, today, we will look at what this might mean for the emergence of islam, and how. Islam"s identity participates in features of surrounding cultures. The nabatean kingdom, best known for the ancient city of petra, was one of the. Kingdoms that emerged out of the conquests of alexander the great - our earliest reference to this kingdom comes from 312 bce. Originally nomadic peoples, the nabateans settled into sedentary life during. Achaemenid rule, and, after alexander"s conquests, controlled a kingdom that maps over a great deal of what is today jordan.
