PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Islamic Culture, Well-Order, Rashidun

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

Document Summary

Pacs 10 lecture 11 having faith in peace: islam"s religious perspectives on peace and justice. Commonalities can be a source of peace and justice. Misunderstandings can be a source of conflict and violence. Islam, judaism, and christianity are sometimes linked together by muslims as people of the book . Arabic (directly revealed words of god) and islam. Debate over whether it"s okay for islam to be diverse or whether there is only one true. Refers not to war but to the idea of effort or struggle. Greater (major) jihad: struggle to be a better person/muslim. Fatwa: a religious clarification you only have to follow it if you think it"s valid. Radical islam means going back to the pure roots of islam. Extremism as defined by the british government is opposition to fundamental british values. Islamism stems from the desire for simplification, which contradicts the inherent complexity of religion. A person sitting in a place of worship must not be harmed.