ARB 3901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jahiliyyah, Okaz, Quran

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Arabic Language and Culture
• Course: ARB 3901
• Professor: Kamal Dib

Document Summary

In arabia itself, some ppl were christian, jewish or other idols: the focus of culture in pious moved to medina, we had advanced syraecc? culture in syria. Jewish tribes who assisted muhammed to winning territory in mecca when he moved to medina. Background: the prophet muhammed (born 570) spreads the message of islam in 610 till his death in 632, 632-661: the four pious caliphs (al-kholafa al-rashidoun) who succeeded muhammed are: abou. Bakr al-siddiq (632-634), omar ibn al-khattab (634-644), othman bin affan (644-656), ali ibn abi. Taleb (656-661: al kholafa rashidoun- implicit meaning here, e. g. Jahiliya in one sense means ignorance: aakel means mature/adult, rashed means same, so basically we moved from age of jahiliya (ignorant) to age of rashed/ pious(mature) Jahel means ignorant person: co(cid:373)i(cid:374)g of isla(cid:373) (cid:272)aused (cid:373)ajo(cid:396) depa(cid:396)tu(cid:396)e i(cid:374) a(cid:396)a(cid:271)i(cid:272) lit it"s go(cid:374)(cid:374)a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge (cid:272)uz fi(cid:396)st 3(cid:1004) (cid:455)(cid:396)s of isla(cid:373), some ppl felt it was v (cid:396)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:455).