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What does the word "Islam" mean?
Indicate briefly the parts of the world in which Muslims are found.
What is the Shahada?
What role(s) does Mohammed play in Islam? What roles - as contrasted to major figures in other religions - does he not play?
What is the Koran (Qur'an)?
As a book, how is the Koran organized?
According to Islam, how were the revelations underlying the Koran made? Who was the intermediary? (And why was an intermediary necessary?)
What, in Moslem teaching, is the status of the Hebrew bible and the New Testament?
What is the "Hadith"? Tell me something about them. Why do they also have the status of (semi-)sacred writings?
What is the Ka'bah?
What, briefly, are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is Sharia? How does it differ from western legal codes?
What happens during the Islamic month of Ramadan?
What is the Hajj? Please tell me a bit about it.
Please tell me a bit about any one of the Islamic Festivals/holidays:
What is the Hijrah? What were its historical consequences, and what role does it play in Islam?
What are the Sufi brotherhoods?
What is a caliph?
What is the historical source of the distinction of Shi'a and Sunni Muslims? Please indicate a few differences and similarities.
What was the fate of the major Islamic empires that existed during the Middle Ages? What might be the historical consequences of that fate?
What, in general, is the Islamic approach to religion and state? How does it differ from Western thinking? What consequences do you think this might have for political institutions and society?
The status of Women in Islam: While the RotW film looks at some specific aspects (the veil), Huston Smith includes a comprehensive discussion (pp. 251ff.), and Fieser provides textual material. How, briefly, could the status of women in the framework of Islam be described? In what ways might it be described as ambiguous? Why?
The RotW film does not mention "jihad", but Fieser provides some textual material, and Huston Smith has a section on "The Use of Force" (254ff.) Smith seeks to provide a balanced discussion, also citing relevant passages from Koran and Hadith. Do you find the concept ambiguous? If so, in what ways?
What questions about Islam would you like to see considered that are not handled in the RotW film or in Huston Smith?
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