Please come in and take out your YELLOW chart that we have been taking on our religion notes on. On the front desks (under the calendar) please take the

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• Please come in and take out your YELLOW chart
  that we have been taking on our religion notes
  on. On the front desks (under the calendar)
  please take the History of Christianity reading
  and begin on that until I call time!

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Born In the Middle East

• Islam

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Islam

• Means submission to God (Allah)

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Muslims

• People who follow the religion of Islam

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Monotheism

• Belief in one all powerful God

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• History Where Founded
• Saudi Arabia in 622 C.E.

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• Founder
• Muhammad

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Muhammad

• Believed that the angel Gabriel revealed a
  message from God (Allah)
• Asked to preach monotheism to fellow Arabs
• Facing persecution in Mecca, he and his followers
  escaped to Medina.
• After 10 years, returned to Mecca and converted
  Mecca to Islam.

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The Kaaba
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Spread of Islam

• Muhammad died in 632 C.E.
• Followers continued to convert people throughout
  Southwest Asia, Northern
• Africa, Europe
• and other
• parts of Asia.

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Basic Beliefs

• Belief in merciful God and evil Satan
• God is Allah
• Muhammad is the Prophet Messenger of God
• Need to make the right moral choices
• Belief in paradise and hell

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Practices

• Public worship on Fridays in a mosque

• Five Pillars of Islam
• Profess faith in Allah
• Pray 5x a day facing Mecca
• Charity to poor
• Fast during month of Ramadan
• Pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj)

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• Sacred Book
• The Koran
• Arabic
• Muhammad, the Prophet revealed the messages God
  gave him through the Angel Gabriel.

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Holy Days

• Friday
• Month of Ramadan
• Eid ul-Fitr

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Holy Places

• Three holy cities
• Mecca
• The Kaaba
• Medina
• Jerusalem

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• Location of Religion Today
• The Middle East
• North Africa
• Indonesia
• South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan)
• Growing in the United States and Europe

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Sects

• Organized religious groups.
• Among Muslims there are two sects in Southwest
  Asia
• The Sunnis
• The Shiites or Shia

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• Sects Sunnis and Shiites
• Similarities
• Belief in Allah
• Both look to the Quran for guidance
• Encourage Muslims to make the hajj

Sunnis Shiites
Imam (Leader) Selected by community based his religious and leadership qualities Must be a descendant of Muhammad
Demographics Majority sect - 90 of the Muslim world Minority sect 10 of the Muslim world (Iran southern Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen
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Homework

• For homework, you are to complete the reading on
  What is Islam and the History of Islam. You
  need to write the following
• 3 Questions you have about EITHER reading.
• 2 unknown vocabulary words
• 1 thing you learned from the reading you felt was
  interesting.