Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fatimid Caliphate, History Of The Jews In Africa, Ashkenazi Jews

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Gyongi Hegedus

Document Summary

Today"s material is very basic material that touches upon the shortcomings of the book. Muslim missionaries who were very knowledgeable about the quran who had scientific and academic arguments that proved that islam is the right religion used to teach the rules to minorities. You have to prove that: the world is created, that god is one, god is spiritual, prophets that spread the messages, prove the existence of hell and paradise. 90% of the egyptians converted to sunni islam almost overnight. Egypt was right under the byzantine empire: 10% of egyptians are still christian- coptic. Western christians claim that coptic are heretics. They claim that you could see jesus, but he did not have a physical body and nor did he eat. Western christians claimed that jesus sacrificed himself for them, whereas coptic people claim that he did not suffer, as a hologramic image of god could not suffer.