Religious studies 1 EDT303Q 1 UNIT 1 – Welcome to the world of Religions 1 UNIT 2 - Overview of the religious history of humankind 1 UNIT 3 – Points of departure 1 UNIT 4 – African Religions 3 UNIT 5 – San‚ Batswana & Amazulu 3 UNIT 7-9 – Hinduism 4 UNIT 10-12 – Buddhism 7 UNIT 13-15 - Judaism 9 UNIT 16-18 – Christianity 10 UNIT 19-21 – Islam 12 Religious studies EDT303Q UNIT 1 – Welcome to the world of Religions Pluralistic world – many religions Religion – something referring to God Throughout
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Sallahuddin Ayubi \ (c. 1138 – March 4‚ 1193)‚ better known in the Western world as Saladin‚ was a Kurdish Muslim‚ who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria‚ and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power‚ his sultanate included Egypt‚ Syria‚Mesopotamia‚ Kurdistan‚ Hejaz‚ and Yemen. Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi‚ the hero of hundreds of battles‚ was the person who for twenty years braved
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Is a Christian king possible? In a time of separation of church and state‚ it is hard to imagine a religious leader without thinking of the theocratic caliphs and shahs or some shallow prosperity preacher trying to impose his views on everyone. It ultimately has a negative ring to it for most people. A Christian king however‚ is not someone who goes around beheading infidels or someone who has the ten-commandments as his screen-saver. Rather a Christian king is someone who governs his country‚ and
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traditions‚ hadith and sunnah were other source of knowledge. And the complied speeches of Hazart Ali has also contributed in the field of knowledge. Nahj al-Balagha (Highway of Oration) is the book in which his lectures‚ speeches‚ his letters as the caliph to his governors are collected. The Prophet once said‚ “I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate.” This saying has aptly proved the position of Hazart Ali in the field of knowledge. Hazart (R.A) Ali contributed abundantly to Muslim scholarly
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Bayezid I- (r.1389-1402) Ottoman ruler who started to besiege Constantinople in 1395. The Europeans saw him as a new threat to Christendom‚ and Hungary’s king led English‚ French‚ German‚ and Balkan knights in a crusade against the Turks. He defeated them at Nicopolis‚ and moved their capital from Bursa to France. If Bayezid had not defeated the Christians‚ the Ottoman Empire might not have taken Constantinople. The armies of Timur defeated him near Ankara in 1402 where he was taken prisoner and
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in the early seventh century‚ many Sabaean and Himyarite people migrated out of the land of Yemen to North Africa and the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula following the destruction of the Ma’rib Dam (sadd Ma’rib). In the 7th century‚ Islamic caliphs began to exert control over the area. After the caliphate broke up‚ the former North Yemen came under the control of imams of various dynasties‚ usually of the Zaidi sect‚ who established a theocratic Zaidi political structure that survived until
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# 19 Mongol Study Guide WHY DID THE MONGOLS COME TO POWER? The Mongols came to power under the rule of Chinggis Kahn due to Chinggis partnering up with a more powerful nomad group who owed his tribe a favor. With the aid of another group‚ he sought revenge on the tribe who enslaved him. After winning several attacks‚ Chinggis began gaining a good reputation which culminated into multiple groups appointing him the khagan‚ supreme leader‚ over the Mongols in 1206‚ which led to the Mongols uniting
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~~~FIRST CRUSADE - After the Normans had settled in France and conquered England‚ both France and England‚ and also the Holy Roman Empire‚ were stronger than they had been since the time of Charlemagne. Their kings and queensbegan to think‚ as he had‚ of reconquering the whole Mediterranean and recreating the Roman Empire. In particular‚ they wanted to take Jerusalem‚ the city ofJesus Christ‚ away from the Islamic Fatimids who were ruling it. In 1095 AD Pope Urban made a great speech at Clermont
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Medicine is important because without medicine people would be miserable and their pain wouldn’t go away. Muslims also expanded the practice of medical schools and hospitals” The Abbasid Caliph Harun Al Rashid used the Sasanian academy of jundishapur in southwestern Iran as his model when he founded his own hospital in baghdad (ca. 800). Muslim physicians too studied works by ancient Greeks scholars. They improved on Greek medical practices
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Unit 2 Anonymous Civilization. The word “civilization” comes from the Latin term for “city.” The first civilizations were the river-valley civilizations‚ so-called because they all developed alongside major rivers to secure an adequate water supply for agricultural production. 2 of the greatest river-valley civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. All though they both supported having a patriarchal leader or king‚ Egypt had a strong‚ centralized government‚ whereas Mesopotamia was decentralized
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