RS110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kaaba, Islamic Calendar, Oral Torah

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Root: s-l-m means submission, surrender, s-l-m may also mean salam (peace) Muslim: (mu = one who follows, a doer) (slm) One who submits to the will of allah. Things that are muslim by nature: inanimate/animal life. Profession of faith (shahadah) i bear witness that there is no god except god and i bear witness that muhammad is the messenger of god in the presence of two muslim witnesses, you are a muslim. Muslims do not like the words mohammedan or muselman but they do not worship mohammad. Written in arabic, cannot be translated (so if you want to read it, you must study arabic) there exists the quran in different languages but it means you are reading not the quran but a translation of the quran. Quran has relatively little bio about muhammad, only holy scripture. Hadith prophetic, written (legal) tradition, believed to be divinely inspired (like the oral torah) origin in 8th century, 2nd most important.