SRS 2398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Abbasid Caliphate, Islamic Fundamentalism, Animism
6 Dec 2014
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Fill in the blanks with a word bank. Some key concepts from before the midterm, more on after the midterm. Class lecture material should be able to reinforce your answers with textbook stuff but primarily coming from the lectures. Cosmology of the ancient near east how it is involved in judaism. Looking at the dualist cosmology of zoroastrianism what happens to people when they die. Important practices of zoroastrianism the tower of silence, etc. Don"t need to know all the names and dates of scholars for christianity, but there could be a question about the phases (give highlights) Read the chapter on islam ishmaeli islam could be question that is not covered in class. Salaam [peace] = word related to islam; obviously disputed but at its root is the idea of peace. Quran = principle text unmediated word of god (recitation) *there are a number of different interpretations of islam not one group.
