POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Hanbali, Pleasure Garden, Jizya
1 Apr 2014
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Arabic: were publius/tocqueville correct that religion should play a subordinate role, islam is against this: as a believer, you should follow the divine law. Without religion as a guide, there is less virtue, less happiness, more isolationism. By submitting to the truth, you will be lead to happiness/virtue/peace. Invented in 622 when muhammad migrated from mecca (hijra) to medina. Judaism, christianity, islam = 3 monotheistic religions in order of appearance: islam = presented as the same revelation passed on from the previous two religions. Islam emerged in order to correct a falling away from monotheism on the arabian. Peninsula: jews and christians proved to be poor messengers of god"s word. Christians added blasphemous notions (divinity of jesus, trinity, etc. There were other prophets before muhammad: god chooses an instrument for revealing his teaching to humanity prophet, played an important role in conveying god"s teaching. Mormonism, scientology = frauds according to this view.
