most of class was dedicated to review of Terms for upcoming quiz:
- Islamic Law - distinction between Shari’ah and Fiqh
- Sunni vs Shi’i
- Muslim
Reading from Farah Bakaari, “Islam and Its Others”
Bakaari asks us to think about who has the right to claim the center or periphery of Islam, while seeding a lot of terms we’ll get to know over the course.
Our job is to resist claiming either - to listen to what Muslims tell us about what they do, why they do it, and how htey make sense of their sacred sources, lived lives, and internal/external debates.