M E STU 10 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sharia, Ijma, Arab Spring

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Middle Eastern Studies
• Course: M E STU 10
• Professor: Mahmood Monshipouri

Document Summary

M e stu 10 midterm short answer topics. Prophet sunnah and hadith (saying and acts) Ijma (consensus of the ulema-class of scholars, judges, and teachers who set and transmitted the norms by which islamic society perpetuated itself) The middle ages and the emergence of islam. Lacked central organizing authority (legal or state system) Tribes were the largest units of social/political organization. Majority of arabia"s inhabitants were pastoral nomads. Bedouins generally had little political influence, and if they did, it would have been peripheral to the sources of state power. Bedouins traditionally depended on settled communities for manufactured items and agricultural products (not the common misconception of rugged, primitive, completely independent life) Loyalty to group above loyalty to morality/standards for human conduct. The leading class of mecca were members of the quraysh tribe, of which prophet. Muhammad was a member to a minor but respectable branch.