Posts and articles for Wednesday

Click here. Please read and annotate this. A printout with annotations is the best idea.

Reading for Friday

Image via WikipediaHere is the link to the assignment for Friday. I decided to go with a secondary source- a 1990 article by a well-known, if controversial, Western scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis. Click here for the article.

Your assignment is to read the document and critically examine its argument. In particular you should answer the following questions:

1. What is Lewis' thesis or theses? What claims does he make to explain Muslim anger at the west as it existed in 1990?

2. Do you think Lewis' argument stands up in the face of events over the past two decades? Why or why not?

To answer these questions you should either print and annotate the article, or read it online and copy to another document significant quotations, along with your analysis of them (annotations). Print these and bring them to class.

Senior Test Study Guide

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Review for Islam test/Islam section of final exam (seniors)

Terms for Islam test:

Theology-Ethics-Liturgy	Early/Modern History	Contemporary history
Allah Abraham Hagar Ishmael Kaaba Qur'an Suras Muhammad Kadija Mecca Medina/Yathrib Hijrah Hadith/Sunnah Imam 5 pillars: -Shahada -Salat -Zakat -Sawm     -Ramadan     -Eid Mubarak -Hajj	Jihad "peoples of the book" Bagdad Dome of the Rock ibn Sina Ottoman Empire Modernization Colonization Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) Madrasah Gamal Abdul Nasser The Shah of Iran Ayatollah Khomeni Hassan al-Banna Sayyid Qutb	Fundamentalism Sharia(h) Animosity towards the West State of Israel US hypocrisy (double standard) Islamic modernism Tunisian education

There will be four relationships or short answer questions, one from each of the above sections, and one question or relationship that cuts across the chart.

You will be able to choose some items, others will be required.