Amy Zimmerman

Religious Structure

Imam

Masjid al-Harem

Madh’hab

Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)

Contributers Muhammed • c. 570 – June 8th 632

5 Pillars of Islam Shahada - Belief Salat - Worship Zakat -

Almsgiving Siyam - Fasting Hajj -

Pilgrimmage

Salat-Prayer Islamic Prayer

Holidays

Eid al-Fitr – Festival of Fast-Breaking

Eid al-Adha – Festival of Sacrifice

Political Influence

Shari’a

Literature Qur’an

“The Recitation”Book of Islamic

revelation.Revealed to

Muhammed from 610 C.E. – 632 C.E.

Hadith“Narrative”Contains words and deeds of

the prophet Muhammed

Symbols

Star and Crescent

Green

Allah and Shahada

Role of Women "I find more bitter than death the woman who

is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare....while I was still searching but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among them all" (Ecclesiastes 7:26-28).

"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I don't permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner" (I Timothy 2:11-14).

"For Muslim men and women, for believing men and women, for devout men and women, for true men and women, for men and women who are patient, for men and women who humble themselves, for men and women who give in charity, for men and women who fast, for men and women who guard their chastity, and for men and women who engage much in Allah's praise-- For them all has Allah prepared forgiveness and great reward" (33:35).

Impacts Calligraphy and

Arabesques Prayer Mat Reading and Writing

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