Introduction to Islam: Winter 2000

Vocabulary

These are the vocabulary words that *Vika* thought important when going through the readings. Prof. Jackson will hand out identification terms closer to exams, but by keeping up with these, you should be able to avoid having to cram right before exams. Keep in mind that not all letters in Arabic can be represented in Latin script on the web. Vika has handouts with the exact representations if you want them; she will get them up here as soon as she learns how to put them into PDF format!

Index

Esposito: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3

Coursepack

Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur'an: "God" | "Prophethood and Revelation" | "Satan and Evil" |
| "Emergence of the Muslim Community" |

Rahman: "Pre-Foundations of the Muslim Community in Mecca"

Fueck: "The Role of Traditionalism in Islam"

Librande and Waldman: "Hadith" and "Sunnah"

Dutton: "'Amal v. Hadith in Islamic Law: The Case of sadl al-yadayn (holding one's hands by one's sides) When Doing the Prayer"

Arjomand: "Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occulation: Imami Shi'ism circa 280-90 AH / 900 AD"

Calder, Ziadeh, Sachedina: Law Articles

Fakhry: "Rise of Islamic Scholasticism" and "The Ash'arite School and the Formulation of the Occasionalist Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents"

Chittick, Voll, Ohtsuka: Sufism Articles


Reading: Esposito, 3rd Edition, Chapter 1

Muhammad Sunni tawhid Allâh 610 CE
Khadija Shi'i iman islam 622 CE
Mecca/Mekka umma shirk muslim 632 CE
Medina/Madina sunna hajj kafir hijra
Qur'ân Shârî‘ah taqwâ wahy

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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 1: God

Qur'ân shirk contingency
Allâh muslim/Muslim amr
al-Rahmân taqwâ qadar
surah

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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 5: Prophethood

Muhammad the Battle of Badr inimitability
Gabriel / Jibril the Holy Spirit (rûh al-qudus) abrogated
Abraham Night of Determination
Shârî‘ah Ramadan rasûl
wahy the Mir'âj nabî
jinn amr 'abd

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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 7: Satan and Evil

Satan / Devil

Iblîs

jinn

taqwâ

shaîtân

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Reading: Rahman: Prefoundations

Mecca People of the Book / ahl al-kitâb Qibla
Medina/Madina Abraham Tawhid
Ka'ba Battle of the Ditch ahzâb

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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 8: Emergence of the Muslim Community (note: substantially similar to "Prefoundations" above.)

Ka'ba

Qibla

ahzâb

umma

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Reading: Esposito, 3rd Edition, Chapter 2

Abu Bakr Caliph khalifa innovation
Umar Kharijites dhimmi occultation
Uthman Umayyads madrasa exoteric
'Ali Shi'i / Shi'a imamate esoteric
Mu'awiya Mahdi taqiyya orthodoxy
Siffin Abbasids ulama orthopraxy
dar al-Islam qadi

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Reading: Fueck, "The Role of Traditionalism in Islam".

From: Studies on Islam, trans. Merlin L. Swartz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Ugli: BP 55 .S871.

exegesis al-Tabari isnad
exegate Hijaz bid'a
apocryphal Khurasan hajj
eschatalogical Mu'tazilite hadith
jursiprudence Ansar fiqh
heterodoxy Sufism
materialisitic conception of history ijtihad
ijma'

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Reading: Librande, "Hadith" and Waldman, "Sunnah"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

"Hadith"
"Sunnah"
hadith hadith qudsi sunnah sunnat al-nabi
'ilm isnad wahy shari'ah
shari'ah matn sirah explication
fiqh rijal bid'ah fiqh
sahih hasan madhhab qadi
da'if

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Reading: Dutton: "'Amal v. Hadith in Islamic Law: The Case of sadl al-yadayn (holding one's hands by one's sides) When Doing the Prayer"

From: Islamic Law and Society, vol. 3, #1, Feb. 1996. Grad: K 9 .S53.

'amal sadl qabd
fiqh madhhab hadith
isnad sunna Fatiha
fuqaha' Successors

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Reading: Arjomand: "Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occulation: Imami Shi'ism circa 280-90 AH / 900 AD"

From: Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 117, #1 (1997). Grad 892.06 A5 O7j or on the web at http://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/pqissues?27321

Imam Shi'ism Musa al-Kazim (d. 183 AH/ 799 CE)
Mahdi occultation ulama
juristic authority hierocracy jurisprudence
Shari'a theology parousia
Caliph polemical Mufawwida
numerolgy

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Reading: Esposito, Chapter 3 (3rd ed.)

orthopraxy theology mutazila Ismail al-Bukhari
d. 870 CE
shahada
orthodoxy apostates shirk Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
d. 875 CE
salat
dialectic omnipotence ulama Abu Dawud d. 888 CE zakat
emanation polygamy qadi al-Nisai d. 915 CE Fast of Ramadan
inductive polygyny fiqh al-Tirmidhi d. 892 CE Hajj
mosque/masjid exegesis ijtihad Ibn Maja d. 896 CE lesser pilgrimage/umra
Fatihah tariqa mufti Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
d. 1111 CE
Fatima
Kaba exoteric fatwa antinomian soteriology
Sufi esoteric faqih/fuqaha mujtahid exegetical works
faqir ascetic muezzin eschatological phenomenal
bida ijma qiyas

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Law Articles

Norman Calder, "Legal Thought and Jurisprudence"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

Abu Hanifah d. ca. 767 ce fiqh hermeneutics Ithna 'Ashari
Malik ibn Anas d. 795 ce Shari'ah synchronic Salafi / Primitavist
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i d. 820 ce faqih/fuqaha' diachronic Islamic fundamentalism
Ahmad ibn Hanbal d. 855 ce usul al-fiqh abrogate / abrogation
'Ali ibn Hazm d. 1064 ce ijma' indigenous
Ja'far al-Sadiq d. 756 ce qiyas epistemological
ibn Taymiyah d. 1328 ce qadi ankylosis
mufti exegesis
fatwa

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Farhat J. Ziadeh, "Sunni Schools of Law"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i d. 820 ce Hanafi School Hejaz eponym
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani 749-804 ce Maliki School ra'y agnomen
ibn Taymiyah d. 1328 ce Shafi'i School istisan anachronistic
ibn 'Abd al-Wahhad Hanbali School zahir exegete
Abu Sulayman Da'ud al-Zahiri d. 883 ce nisbah
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari d. 922 ce

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Abdulaziz Sachedina, "Shi'i Schools of Law"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Baqir eschatology Mahdi ijtihad
Ja'far al-Sadiq religious praxis al-'aql madhhab
Ayatollah Ruhollah al-Musavi Khomeini d. 1989 ce jurisprudence ijma' fuqaha'

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Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Grad: B 741 .F16

"Rise of Islamic Scholasticism"

fuqaha' exegesis speculative theology Mu'tazilah Wasil ibn 'Ata' d. 748 ce
Mahaddithun eschatology doxographical Kharijites Jahm ibn Safwan d. 745 ce
qadar dialectical polemics Traditionalists
usul agnosticism inherent nature Ash'arites
tauhid occasionalism latent properties
heterodox atoms and accidents

"The Ash'arites School and the Formulation of the Occasionalist Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents"

necessary knowledge fana' atomism
discursive knowledge collocation
natural theology espitemological
atoms and accidents

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William Chittick: "Sufi Thought and Practice"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

sufism tasawwuf Abu Hamid al-Ghazali d. 1111 ce silsilah
asceticism tariqah/tariqat Ibn al-'Arabi d. 1240 ce barakah
hagiography dhikr/zikr adab
intoxication and sobriety shaykh

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John Voll: "Sufi Orders"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

tariqah/tariqat shrine
silsilah popular piety
marabout Wahhabis

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Kazuo Ohtsuka, "Sufi Shrine Culture"

From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.

"saints" ascetic Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab d. 1791 ce barakah
awliya', wali bid'ah dhikr/zikr Hejaz
'ulama' mawlid ziyarah

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Last updated 2/20/2000 by vika@umich.edu.