RELI 160D2 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I. Wallace D. MuhammadII. Louis FarrakhanIII. EuropeA. France and EnglandIV. Ottoman EmpireA. Sultan and IstanbulB. Sulayman the Magnificent Outline of Current Lecture I. Empire collapsedA. WWI II. Muslim gospelCurrent LectureEnd of 19th century, the empire collapsed• The turks sided with the German in WWI• Mustafa Kemal “Attaturk” (Father of the Turks) was a great general during WWI, with a great reputation.• He was an atheist with no interest in the Qur’an. • He just wanted to transform society, and he did. Made it a secular Islamic state. He made it based on Swiss civil law.• Adopted the Gregorian calendar• He stressed music & agriculture, and he built universities because he wanted people educated. To show his disdain for the Sultan in the old empire - moved the capital from Istanbul to Ankara(sp?).• When he took over, 80% of Turks were illiterate.Muslim gospel• Comes from an Islamic scholar Tarif Khalidi• Has a book called The Muslim Jesus. Sayings and stories.• Largest collections of Jesus sayings in any non-christian book.• The purpose was to show that Jesus was perceived by Islam with great reverence, even though Muslims don’t accept his divinity.• There are 303 examples of these sayings and stories• They began in the 8th century, and continued until the 18th century.• “Tales of the Prophets” - Of all these prophets, Jesus stands out for quantity and quality• He says in a way, they’re trying to fill in places that people don’t really know about Jesus• He says people should understand that there’s a relationship between Islam and Christianity that people don’t understand.• And Mary is mentioned way more times in the Muslim Gospel than in the New
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