[RELG 204] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (213 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Ian H Henderson, Hadi Fakhoury, Steven Lapidus

Document Summary

Submission islam means that you should bear witness that g-d is g-d and acknowledge that mohammed is his prophet, fast during ramadan : he is describing actions one must make in order to submit to g-d. In the persian empire, zoroastriansm was the official religion. The emergence of islam (pre-islamic period: mecca (the site of mohammed"s birth): arabic pilgrimage where tribes from all over go to pray to the statue. They would pray to various gods and goddesses: mecca is not only a geographic sensation, it is part of all the traditions. Jahiliyya = age of ignorance, refers to a period of time during the pre- Islamic period: they present a worldview with no g-ds. Format for final exam: identify questions, short answers (half page-full page, 1 essay question. Quran to incidents happening in muhammad"s life and life in arabia: sunna/hadith: a hadith literally means in narration.