1. Aim: What are the major beliefs and customs of the Islamic faith?
Unit Essential Question: Who was Muhammad, and how did his teachings lead to the rise and spread of Islam?
Aim: What are the major beliefs and customs of the Islamic faith?
Do Now: Islam Pretest

2. Arabian Peninsula Physical Features: Mostly desert Farming
1. Irrigation
2. Scattered Oases
*Oasis = fertile area in a desert, watered by a natural well or spring
How does this physical layout of the land effect the people of this region?
Oases = plural for Oasis

3. Origins of Islam Way of Life Sedentary Settled tribes
Near oases/coasts
Souk: market where nomads and townspeople traded for things they needed.

4. Muhammad Biography & Questions
The Prophet Worksheet
Muhammad Biography & Questions
Calligraphic Symbol for Muhammad = No pictures of him

5. Teachings of Islam Qu’ran Sacred text of Islam
Final authority on all matters
Divided into chapters = Suras
chapters= Meccan and Medinan suras (location of the revelation – before of after the hijra)
Vary in length = shortest has 3 verses longest has 286

6. Teachings of Islam Five Pillars of Islam
All Muslims must accept 5 basic duties
Pilgrimage
Pray 5xs a day facing Mecca
Fasting
Declaration of one faith
charity
Jihad – effort in God’s service
Mistaken as ‘holy war’
Shahadah: sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith
Salat: performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day
Zakat: paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy
Sawm: fasting during the month of Ramadan
Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca

7. Way of Life Islam is both a religion and a way of life
Sharia – Islamic system of law
Moral code &religious law
Regulates:
Moral conduct
Family life
Business practices
Government
Applies the Qu’ran to all legal situations

8. 30 Days: Muslims and America

10. AIM: What was the Muslim world like in the 1320s?
DO NOW:
Student Survey

11. What happens when Muhammad dies in 632?
By 750 CE, stretched across the Middle East, North Africa and into Spain
Largest empire ever up to that point
More than twice as large as the Roman Empire
Trade, Treaty and War

12. The Travels of Ibn Battuta
1325–1354 CE

13. 13th century image of pilgrims on a Haj
Ibn Battuta
Image retrieved from
Ibin Batoota
13th century image of pilgrims on a Haj

14. 1904 printing of Ibn Battuta’s Rihla
The Rihla
Image adapted from
Rihla - thrilla   
1904 printing of Ibn Battuta’s Rihla

15. Let’s Summarize..

16. Aim: How do we self-assess our DBQ essays to improve our skills?
Do Now: Which part of the DBQ essay was the most difficult for you?