The Roots of Islam

  1. Desert Bloom- Caravan Cities
    1. Help from above
    1. Shuttle Challenger watched Arabian Peninsula
    2. Frankincense marketplace
    3. Looking for answers
    1. Early Arabia
    1. Ubar; early city on the Arabian Peninsula
    2. At an Oasis

a. Ubar’s history

b. Nomads

c. Crops

3. Nomadic Life

a. Farming for living

b. Tribes

c. Idols

d. Hanif

e. Primitive feudalism

C. Towns and Trades

1. General Information

a. Geography

b. Traders

c. Routes

2. Petra

a. Trade center

b. Open air market

D. The Holy City of Meca

1. Location

2. A sacred meeting place

    1. Abraham and Ishmael
    2. Religion
    3. Pilgrimage

II. Muhammad and Islam

    1. Qur’an
    1. The story of Muhammad
    2. Muhammad’s experience with the angel Gabriel
    1. The life of a prophet
    1. Early life
    2. Messages
    3. Gods
    4. Monotheism
    1. Spreading the word
    1. Preaching
    2. Migration of the Muslims

 

    1. Returning to Mecca
    1. Muhammad and Medina
    2. Support and resistance of Islam
    3. The first Mosque
    4. Joining of forces
    1. The teachings of Islam
    1. Qur’an and Allah
    2. The Qur’an
    1. Sunna, all religious beliefs of Islam
    2. Old testaments
    3. Close ties with other religions
    4. Reasoning
    5. Origin
    1. The Sunna
    1. The basis of Islamic life
    1. Faith to Allah
    2. Prayer; five time a day
    3. Charity to the poor
    4. Fast during Ramadan
    5. Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca
    1. All Arabs and Muslims live by these
    1. An Islamic way of life
    1. Religious way of life
    2. Terms and details
    3. Women have rights
    4. Individual countries have different customs
    5. Every day Islamic life, very religious
    6. A few customs
  1. Early Islam
    1. Final message
    1. Muhammad’s character
    2. Reason to worry when Muhammad dies
    3. Advisers tried to help and calm
    4. It worked
    1. The first Caliph
    1. After he died, advisors chose caliph, or successor
    2. His father-in-law, two companions and a blood relative were to be chosen between.
    3. They chose his father-in-law
    1. The next two Caliphs
    1. father-in-law only Caliph for 2 years, then died
    2. Muslims conquered, but let people keep culture
    3. Even non-Judeo-Christian people were tollerated
    4. Councils named all Caliphs after that

 

    1. Early political division
    1. New government
    2. Unity threatened
    3. War broke out, and then negotiations failed
    1. The Shiites
    1. Problem with rightful caliphs
    2. Shiites thought only descendants of Muhammad could be caliphs
    3. They thought only the Imam could be the divine successor
    1. The Sunnis
    1. the other people were the Sunni, who followed the ideal of a prophet, not Muhammad directly
    2. These groups still exist
    3. Through these differences, all Muslims have been united by Allah