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Homework due today • From the text book, read chapter 10, section 2, pages 269 – 271 stopping at Control Extends over Three Continents define the following terms from the reading in your notebook: • Caliphs Sufi • Jihad (not in bold) Abbasids • “people of the book” (not in bold) • Umayyads • Sunni • Shi’a Homework due Thursday • Correct any mistakes on your quiz. It will be checked next class. • Go through your notes and make sure you have all of these assignments in your notebook. • Tonight & Wednesday are catch up days New Material • • • • • • The Five Pillars of Islam: 1. Faith – commitment to Allah 2. Prayer – 5 times a day facing Mecca 3. Alms – charity 4. Fasting – sacrifice 5. Pilgrimage • The five pillars ensures Muslims practice their faith while also serving their community. • No priests or leaders, but there is a scholar that is well informed about the teachings of Muhammad. He is known as Ulama New Material • Muslims believe Allah worked through the Angel Gabriel and Gabriel revealed Allah’s intensions to Muhammad. • Muhammad’s followers were to memorize all of his teachings. After Muhammad’s death, his followers began to write down all of his revelations now known as the Qur’an (sometimes written as Koran). • Although Islam is in many countries and the Qur’an is written Arabic. The reason for this was that it was Muhammad’s language and it is meant to unite followers of Islam. New Material • Muhammad’s example is known as Sunna. • Shari’a is the body of laws that governs Muslims • Muslims believe that their God is the same as the Christian & Jews. The difference is that Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet. The Qur’an perfects the teachings of the Torah and New Testament. • Muslims refer to Jews & Christians as “the people of the book” because of the similar teachings each groups possesses.