REL STD 5A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Henna
11 Nov 2015
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Arabia: nomads caravan trade, extensive trade routes to africa, india, etc, pretty big town (oases, no temples before muhammad. No theology: polytheism believed in hundreds of gods. Muhammad born in year 570: mother: light shown from her, sign that this baby would be a special person, fatherless, and later orphaned. Childhood: raised by uncle, not much money, shepherd, age 10: caravan trade (exposed to larger culture, precocious, charming, smart, soothsayers: this kid will be a prophet, cloud following him, shaded from oppressive heat. First lines of the quran: age 40: contemplative figure, climb up mountains, pray, believed in one god in a polytheistic culture. Allah = god (arabic word: in a cave, the angel gabriel appeared (he appeared to mary in the. Gospels) and chants, telling muhammad to recite after me . The first lines of the quran: the recitation. Message straight from god through gabriel: over 20 years, revelations given. Muhammad"s message: message of one god and judgment day.
