1. A Visual Journey into Islam:
Symbols in Islamic Culture

2. The Kabba

3. The KaBba Continued

4. Medina: City of the Prophet
The First Mosque – Muhammad’s home

5. Hijra = voyage 622 AD travel to Yathrip = 1st year of Islamic calendar
Yathrip becomes Medina (City of the prophet)

6. Hijra
In September 622, warned of a plot to assassinate him, Muhammad secretly slipped out of Mecca with Abu Bakr. By degrees, Muhammad and his followers emigrated to the city of Yathrip, 200 miles north of Mecca. Yathrib was soon renamed Medina, literally "the City of the Prophet"
The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Umar in 638 or 17 AH (anno hegirae = "in the year of the hijra"). In the following chronology the city will be referred to as Medina, and the region surrounding it as Yathrip.

7. The Crescent Moon
The star and crescent moon, is the universal symbol of the Islamic religious community.

8. Dome of the Rock
Muslims believe that Muhammad ascended into heaven from this place.
It is also believed that the patriarch Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac from the same place.

9. Mosque: A place of worship
                                                           
Last Analogy:
A Mosque is to AS
A Church is to

10. Mosque: A place of worship
Last Analogy:
A Mosque is to
Muslims AS
A Church is to
Christians

11. Muhammad’s Biography Born 570 AD Born of Mecca Parents die at age 6
Lives with Bedouins

12. Prophet Muhammad One God (Muhammad’s message) Social Implications
No more tribes
Everyone equal

13. Quran (The Quran is Muhammad’s miracle)
Muhammad is the voice of Allah
Surrender to God = Muslim
The Quran is a representation of Allah on Earth

14. Muhammad's Death
Dies in 632 of the Christian calendar

15. Tombstone Assignment Gives the dates of life.
Allows an observer to know the person who has passed away.
Make a tombstone for the Prophet Muhammad (Muhammad ibn Abdu llah-Abul-Qaasim)

16. Bibliography http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts13...