{"id":444,"date":"2020-03-03T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=444"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:23:51","slug":"learning-about-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/03\/learning-about-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before this class, I had not had much exposure to the Islamic faith. I had never interacted with someone who practiced this faith, and the faith traditions practiced in Islam were something I did not know much about. In contrast to China, which I had learned about in other classes, I know very little about the Middle East and its history. While reading No God but God I began to learn about the rich culture and history of this area. I was shocked that I had never heard of the Ka’ba. This place where people with all different religious backgrounds and beliefs could worship together was hard to imagine happening so long ago. This is something that rarely even happens today, so the fact that a place like this existed illustrated the culture of a place like this. I also had no idea that so many of the doctrines in the Quran reference stories that are also found in the bible. So much of the narrative that is portrayed in our society is that the Middle East is “barbaric” and “different,” and these initial readings have taught me that could not be farther from the truth. Islam actually has many similar stories and teachings as in Christianity, and it even acknowledges Jesus. The civilizations described at this time also seem very far from “barbaric.” They are able to worship together and the description of the area did not seem much different from Europe at this time. Overall, I did not realize how many preconceived notions I had about Islam coming into this class, but I now realize how important it is to learn about other cultures so these ideas do not continue to spread. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before this class, I had not had much exposure to the Islamic faith. I had never interacted with someone who practiced this faith, and the faith traditions practiced in Islam were something I did not know much about. In contrast to China, which I had learned about in other classes, I know very little about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}