Monotheistic religions

Origins of Judaism?

Fertile cresent in israel

When was Judaism found?

1500BC-1000BC

Abraham

Made covenant with God that Hebrews were Gods chosen people

Prohpets

Taught moral standards

Torah

stories of ancient hebrews and hebrew law

Talmud

oral law of judaism

Place/time of worship of Judaism

Synagogues during Saturday

Sects of Judaism

Orthodox, conservative, reformed

Disapora

Scattering of Jews when they were forced to leave their homeland

When and where was Islam found?

7th century AD in the Arabian Peninsula

Prayer in islam

5 times a day facing Mecca

Almsgiving

Giving to the poor

Sawm

Fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan

Hajj

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Kaaba

Holy shrine of Muslims in Mecca

Dome of the Rock

Where Muhammed ascended to heaven in Jerusalem

Place/time of worship of Muslims

Mosques in friday noon

Imams

Gives sermons

Religious sects of Islam

Sunni, Shia/Shiite, Sufids

Five pillars of Islam

Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj

Shahada

There is only one God

Salat

Pray 5 times a day

Shariah

Laws based on Koran that regulate government and family law.

Hadith

Compilation of the practices, traditions and sayings of prophet muhammad

Sunnis believed that caliphs should be..

Elite members of the Islamic community

Shias believed that caliphs should be..

Muhammed’s family member

First muslim dynasty

umayyad caliphate

Zakat

almsgiving