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How do I spend a week teaching Islam The Spread of Islam and Muslim Advancements?
The best way to teach Islam by starting with Islam history then through to where Islam has spread to (include and open disscussion in the class to how Islam spread) after that you are able to find information on Islam (not muslim) advancement. (study the cruades that happened that involved Islam) I'll assume the class is 90 minutes every day. Start off by teaching that Muslims believe that both Moses and Jesus were Prophets of God conveying the message of God, and that Islam has a TON in common with Judaism and Christianity. Then explain the 5 Pillars of Islam.- Teach the story of how, why and where the Quran was revealed to Muhammad and why that turned the Hijaz into a holy land for Muslims; why do Muslims pray towards Mecca? Why do Muslims think God had to send another Prophet? -Then talk of Muhammad's travels from Mecca to Medina and his conquering of Mecca. Explain the importance of Arabic to Islam and how the Quran is not considered holy if it is written in any other language. Talk of how the Quran is set up: guide to govern a people and lead Muslims down the correct/divine path: in Iran the Constitution is the Quran. Talk about Sharia Law (Islamic Law): talk of the Sunna and Hadiths and ijtihad. Talk about why the surrounding peoples converted to Islam and what Islam did to gain converts. Talk of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and how sects formed in Islam. Muslim Caliphates: much classical literature would have been lost had they not been kept by the Muslim Empires. Talk of Turkey's advancements in gender issues. Teach various terms: Umma, tawhid, ijma...hope this gets you through a little.
How many of the villages and towns did the Catholic Church take over during the cruades?
None, the Crusades were strictly to rescue people and the Holy Land from the Muslim invaders and killers. The Muslims invaded the Holy Land and killed people by the thousands, they killed all the men, and enslaved the women and children. They burned the Churches and shrines. The Crusades were formed for the task of rescuing the survivors from the brutal conditions that they were barely surviving under, and to liberate the Holy Land itself. Pope Urban II made a very public and urgent plea in 1095 to all of Christendom after receiving a letter from the Byzantine Emperor Alexis describing the increasing danger from the Seljuk Turks, Tartars from Asia, who had already conquered the caliphate of Baghdad in 1055 and now were seeking to expand their empire into the Holy Land.from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980Crusades. The military expeditions undertaken by Christians in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems. The name comes from the cross that the crusaders bore on their clothing. There were eight principal Crusades: the first (1096-99) and the eight (1270). However, the term is also applied in a wider sense to all expeditions blessed by the Church against heretics and infidels. (Etym. French croisade; Spanish cruzada; Latin cruciata, a marking with the cross.)All of the history you have heard about the Crusades is so much hogwash:from Seven Lies About Catholic History, by Diane MoczarUnprovoked Muslim aggression in the seventh century brought large parts of the southern Byzantine Empire, including Syria, the Holy Land, and Egypt under Arab rule. Christians who survived the conquests found themselves subject to a special poll tax and discriminated against as an inferior class known as dhimmi. Often their churches were destroyed and other harsh conditions imposed. For centuries their complaints had been reaching Rome, but Europe was having its own Dark Age of massive invasion, and nothing could be done to relieve the plight of eastern Christians.By the eleventh century, under the rule of a new Muslim dynasty, conditions worsened. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, site of the Crucifixion was destroyed, along with a large number of other churches, and Christian pilgrims were massacred. In 1067 a group of seven thousand peaceful German pilgrims lost two-thirds of their number to Muslim assaults. By this time the popes, including St. Gregory VII, were actively trying to rally support for relief of eastern Christians, though without success. It was not until the very end of the century, in 1095, that Pope Urban's address at Clermont in France met with a response-though not quite the one he had hoped for. But the response was what we now call the First Crusade."The general consensus of opinion among medievalists . . . is that the Crusades were military expeditions organized by the peoples of Western Christendom, notably the Normans and the French, under the leadership of the Roman Popes, for the recover of the Holy Places from their Muslim masters." This seems to sum up most neatly what the Crusades really were and how their participants actually viewed them. The Crusades were not colonialist or commercial ventures, they were not intended to force Christianity on Jews and Muslims, and they were not the projects of individual warlords. Their primary goal, in addition to the defense of the Eastern Empire, was the recovery of the Holy Land for Christendom, and they acknowledged the leadership of the Popes. As French historian Louis Brehier wrote, 'the popes alone understood the menace of Islam's progress for christian civilization.'"
