1. Day 1 – Traditional Life in Islamic Nations
Modern vs. Traditional
Day 1 – Traditional Life in Islamic Nations

2. Traditional Islamic Society Modern Islamic Society
Turn your page sideways & create the chart below in your notebook for today’s notes.
Traditional Islamic Society
Modern Islamic Society 1. 2. 3.
Role of Women:
Characteristics of Religious Law: 4.
Economy:
Modern Economy:
- Tertiary Activities
- Quaternary Activities
Modernization (definition) –
Examples of Modernization

3. Economic Development or Traditional Values?
Modern Islamic Nations in SW Asia have a major decision…
Economic Development or Traditional Values?

4. Traditional Southwest Asia
Religion of Islam regulates all aspects of society.
No separation of religion from politics and economics (Religion is part of EVERYTHING)
Government = a Theocracy based on the …
Qu'ran

5. Traditional Role of Women:
Must wear headscarf and be veiled.
Life devoted to husband and raising children.
Limited rights  couldn’t drive cars, work in a professional workplace, flirt/talk to men other than their husbands.

6. Iran Analysis
As you watch the first segment on Iran, complete the following:
1. Create a list of elements of traditional culture in Iran that your observe during the clip.

7. Religious Law – Characteristics
Laws based on the Qu’ran
Religious guidelines for prayers, fasting, giving to the poor, and many other religious matters
Social guidelines for personal hygiene, diet, sexual conduct, and raising children
Economic laws and procedures based on the Islam

8. Secular Law US Constitution
Secular Law - laws that have no religious connection or influence
US Constitution

9. Frayer Model – Secular Law
Definition:
Secular Law
Non-Example of a Country:
Example of a Country:

10. Religious Law vs. Secular Law
Islamic Law =
Secular Law =
decides the law
Task  Create a list explaining how a day at school be different living under Islamic religious law.

11. Traditional Southwest Asia – Economy
Based on primary activities like fishing and agriculture
Stock market, debt, and interest are seen as a form of gambling
Traditional market selling agricultural products

12. Economic Development or Traditional Values?
Economics is changing…
Should culture change too?
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT
SOUTHWEST ASIA. ↓
Citrus Farming
MODERN ↑
Shopping Malls

13. Modern Economy Tertiary Activities development of banks, stock markets
shopping malls
women entering the workplace as teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
Dubai Hotel, largest in the world.

14. Modern Economy Quaternary Activities
development of TV, media, and internet
secular (non-religious) universities
Dubai’s Media City, home to news stations, online publishing, newspapers

15. Modernization
Modernization – increased industrialization, increased urbanization, & increased social changes.
Examples:
Airports
Shopping Malls
Technology Systems
Online business
Dams
Deep Wells

16. Frayer Model – Westernization
Definition:
Westernization
Examples:
Where:

17. Westernization
Definition – When a non-Western country adopts Western Ideas and traditions like culture, government, and economics.
Examples – technology, diet, language, religion, entertainment, law, political system

18. What is the West? +

19. Southwest Asia Today
Task  Read p (starting at “Religious Duties Shape Lives”)
In your notebook, list all the aspects of religious law that are still practiced today in Modern Islam.

20. Exit Ticket - Paragraph
How can a country like Saudi Arabia modernize without westernizing its society?