Things to think about while reading the documents on Islam

1.) Students can think about how they would feel if they were to follow the Quran.

 

 2.) Students can think about what jihad means to them.

 

3.) Students can think about what impression they get of Islam and Muhammed and how do these impressions compare to feelings they get when they see religious paintings of Jesus or Buddha.

Additional Extra Credit Opportunity this Friday

Students, extra credit will also be awarded to students who attend and write up a summary of this talk:

On Friday, November 8 from 2-4:30, you are invited to join Professor Miriam Zimmerman’s Holocaust Class to meet Holocaust Survivor Annemarie Yellin.  She will talk of her experience of Krystallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which occurred on November 9 and 10, 1938, 75 years ago.  Hear of her escape from Germany and rescue by nuns in a convent school in Belgium.  This is a unique opportunity to meet one of the last living survivors of the Holocaust and to hear her story.  Meet at the Province center of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at 1502 Ralston Avenue (lower campus, opposite Ralston Hall).

Guiding questions for Wednesday's documents reading

1. In the documents of the men; what motivated them to travel so far? 

2. What similarities or differences did they see compared to their own and the ones they visited?

3. What can we take from these documents about the men (travelers) who wrote them?

4. Looking at the visual sources what can you identify that was most prominent during the Silk Road Trading?