RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kaaba
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Lecture 8: quote in introduction- normative islam means islam as the tradition understands in an authoritative form, by the 9th century, islam has consolidated stability as a tradition and the past is looked back upon. The biology and the prophet is a sacred biology or sacred history. In the age of ignorance people believe in many gods. Prior to mohamad monotheism is lost in the dust. Clips: all the stuff the people are doing with the idols and sacrificing animals are wrong and. Mohamad will stop this: mohamad is family of the organizers of the mecca. His group and him are persecuted and he was one of these poets. If he is a poet he is making up, even though he is receiving the message from the god. They make a distinction between a poet and a prophet. Prophet is a someone that relays information: when people were describing the kaaba they said this once was abrahams house.
