HUMA 1845- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1845
• Professor: Marta Simidchieva

Document Summary

Tutorial readings 1 (cid:862)isla(cid:373) th(cid:396)ough (cid:449)este(cid:396)(cid:374) eyes(cid:863) edward said. On one hand, islam represents the threat of a resurgent atavism, which suggests not only the menace of a return to the middle ages but the destruction democratic order in the western world. On the other hand, islam is made to stand for a defensive counter-response to this first image of. Isla(cid:373) as th(cid:396)eat, espe(cid:272)ially (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:862)good(cid:863) mosle(cid:373)s like the audi a(cid:396)a(cid:271)ia(cid:374)s o(cid:396) the afgha(cid:374) mosle(cid:373) (cid:862)f(cid:396)eedo(cid:373) fighte(cid:396)s(cid:863) agai(cid:374)st the o(cid:448)iet u(cid:374)io(cid:374) a(cid:396)e i(cid:374) (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) Peter the venerable commissioned the first latin translations of the quran. Broad consensus that islam was a false religion by muhammed, on the basis of incomplete knowledge of the bible (painted by peter and christian scholars) Also how he spread his creed by violence, and preaching self-indulgence and sexual license. Staff and alumni of christian islamicists corrected the disoriented image of islam.