HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gabriel, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ulama
Document Summary
Faith, community and civilization: introduction: islam and the umma. Umma is the community of believers in islam. Dar-al-islam an area dominated by people of islam (political) It expanded politically and frayed overtime, religious and political authority was separated therefore, the community of faith continued. A system of government, social organization or community (islamic) It spread by peaceful conversion, conquest, battles and war. It spread to china not a big impact because of their own religion to south east asia the political rule was not successful but religion did. Muhammad got messages from jibreel, he did not write on paper but leaves. Chinese gave them the access to technology of paper so quran was on paper then. Hadith reports of things that were written by his followers about the things he said. Muhammad was a prophet and the last of the ones after abraham, moses and jesus, they incorporated christians and jews as people of the book.
