RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Islamic Texts Society, Israelites, South Arabia
22 Dec 2013
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There are three main areas crucial to islamic thought: the unity of god, prophecy, and eschatology: the unity of god is the subject of the profession of faith in islam called the shahadah. Historically, in the triad of judaism, christianity and islam, islam is the latest of the three. The prophet muhammad (570 ce- 632 ce) was born in mecca, a town in a dry, sandy, desert valley surrounded by a double range of desolate treeless hills. It was a natural stopping place for the camel caravans that made their way from south arabia to the great cities in syria and babylonia to the north and east. In the centre of town was a sacred well and close to it a simple square shrine called the kabah which held images of the local gods and goddesses. In islamic tradition, the ancestral patriarch of both the arab tribes and the hebrew tribes was.
