RLG280Y1 Lecture Notes - Monotheism, Islamic Golden Age, Abrahamic Religions

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Blackboard: get medina document, look into his night journey. Muhammad / quaysh tribe he was following the stages of the near east"s development. Significance: founder of the first islamic polity, find not only a state but also a religion that guaranteed the survival of the new religion, continuing the mission of this new faith. He was a revolutionary by establishing a new way of life (sunnah), of existence taking a traditional society that lived by the laws of the fathers (ancestral code), a new sa. Mecca: pilgrimage centre, kaaba, travel enabled by the 4 months of truce when the vendetta system is lifted. He evolves from a warner in mecca to a ruler of a city state, medina. 610 exceptional turning point in time, where arabia spilled over and changed human history. Christian paradigm of change in the world: the influence of christian doctrine and institutions, the structure of imperial rome; changing/converting the world.

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