RELG 204 Final: Islam Final Guide + Comparative Notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Charles Douglas Fletcher

Document Summary

Part i: 18 of the following terms, and identify 15 (2 points) Sunni ahl al-sunna wa"l-jama"a: people of the prophet"s sunna and the main community. Shia: party of ali prophets descendants as leaders a son/descendent of ali after the death of muhammad. Abbasid: an islamic dynasty founded in baghdad in the mid-seventh century. Abbasid caliphs played a major role in the preservation of hellenistic culture within. Their cultivation of the rabbinic gaonim enabled the latter to play a crucial role in the spread of rabbinic judaism throughout islamic land. Sometimes translated as holy warfare, but that is only one meaning. Islam is the name of the religion revealed by god in the qur"an. The title applied to the political leaders who succeeded the prophet muhammad. Din: religion, meaning the beliefs and devotional practices of islam, or any religion, taken as a whole. Islam is know n as al-din al islami, the islamic religion.