1. Get out highlighter, pencil, notebook
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Get out highlighter, pencil, notebook
Life of Muhammad
Islam
HW: Vocab Due 10/18

2. The Life of Muhammad: Muhammad: 570, Mecca, Arabia Arabian Peninsula
Desert
Crossroads of trade and cultures
Mecca: sight of pilgrimage and
Ka’aba

3. The Life of Muhammad: Merchant Meditation
In 610, hears a voice speaking to him
Voice of the angel Gabriel

4. Beginnings of Islam Message= only true god (Allah)
Muhammad was a mortal
What is the difference between Muhammad and Jesus?
Preached a strong social justice
equality and poverty
Islam vs. Muslim

5. The beginnings of Islam
Attracts poor and working class
Persecution by ruling elite

6. The Hijrah Mohammad leaves Mecca in 622 Moves to Medina
Becomes a political and military leader in addition to religious one
Begins tradition of uniting religion and politics

7. Return to Mecca Marches on Mecca with 10,000 followers in 630
Mecca’s leaders surrender
Muhammad destroys tribal polytheistic idols in the Ka’aba
Converts many new followers
Join the Umma (Muslim religious community)

8. The Five Pillars

9. Get out highlighter, pencil, notebook
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Get out highlighter, pencil, notebook
Life of Muhammad
Islam
HW: Vocab Due 10/18

10. The Five Pillars 1-Declaration of Faith (Shahada)
Muslims must state that there is not God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.
2. Daily Prayer (Salaah)
Muslims must pray five times a day facing the Kaaba in Mecca.

11. The Five Pillars 3. Charity (Zakah) Donate to less fortunate
4. Fasting-Ramadan (Sawn)
Holy month of Ramadan which celebrates the recording of the Quran.

12. The Five Pillars
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) Must travel to Mecca once in your lifetime tch?v=29HpUaJpwvI

13. Timelapse of praying at the Ka’aba

14. Review Notes
Create an illustration to help you remember the 5 Pillars of Islam in your notes or on your timeline

15. Koran (or the Qur'an) Holy Book of Islam
Contains ethical guidelines and laws
Many commandments, few stories
Introduced life after death and heaven & hell (divine reckoning)
Written in Arabic

16. Islamic Beliefs Honor earlier prophets (Abraham, Moses, Jesus)
Accept Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels
Muhammad mortal, not divine
Don’t use clergy
Significance?
Don’t depict Muhammad’s face in art, don’t want idolatry
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17. Life as a Muslim Shari’a Law: Practice honesty and justice
a set of laws which regulate many aspects of Muslim life
No separation between church and state
covers family life, business, government, and moral conduct
Practice honesty and justice
Forbidden to:
gamble
eat pork
drink alcohol
engage in dishonest behavior.

18. Notes Review
Put a circle around similarities in your notes between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Put a square around differences between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Explain in your notes how the life of a Muslim is different than that of a Christian or a Jew
can be a paragraph, a venn diagram, other visual image, etc.
How is it similar? (repeat step above)

19. Period after Muhammad
Muhammad dies in 632, but didn’t name a successor
Muhammad’s close friend Abu Bakr becomes the first caliph
Umar, Uthman, and Ali follow after him
Together they are the “rightly guided” caliphs
Worked to expand influence of Islam outside the Arabian peninsula

20. Sunni vs. Shi’a

21. Sunni vs. Shi’a

22. Expansion of Islam

25. The Islamic Map