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The assigned surahs are: Surah 1, Surah 99, Surah 109, Surah 2, Surah 4. You are encouraged to read more — but these surahs are required. Think about the following questions as you read. When you write your paper aim to focus on one or two themes — you cannot write about all of these questions in a short paper. What do you learn about early Muslim society — including the roles of women based on your reading of the surahs? Do you find evidence of continuing traditional Arab religious and social traditions as well as new religious beliefs and social realities? Do you find continuities with the earlier beliefs and practices of Judaism and Christianity? Which messages of the Qur’an would be effective in aiding the expansion of the religion?

The assigned surahs in the Qur’an can be found at clearquran.com and at quran.com and https://www.alislam.org/quran/Holy-Quran-English.pdf. There are other translations. You will find the Qur’an in a library as well. You can read more than the assigned surahs; but it is not required. I trust you all realize Arabic is the language of Allah — the Qur’an is meant to be read in Arabic. Prof. Berry

The page length for this assignment is a minimum of TWO pages; 1.5 spaced with one inch margins in 12 point Times New Roman font.

Include at least FOUR quotations from the text with proper documentation using footnotes. Use the Chicago Manual of Style for citations. For example, a footnotes citations looks like this:

1 Edward H. Judge & John W. Langdon, Connections: A World History, vol 1 Second Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2012), p. 37.

A bibliography listing looks like this:

Judge, Edward H. and John W. Langdon. Connections: A World History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2012.

To provide a citation to the Qu’ran:

1 Qur’an 18:1-3.

The header of the document (placed on the top of the first page) is to be one line with the following information:

For a concise review of documentation using the Chicago Manual of Style , see the OWL site at Purdue University.

Your Name, Your School, Class/Section, Assignment, Date – See example below.

Thomas Jones, ECC, HST 101 – World Civilization – Section OL1 , Islam Paper, [fill in the date]

The assignment must be saved in Word with the following file nomenclature and uploaded into the Moodle system.

Word File Nomenclature: (School Name & Class) (Section Number) (Student’s First Last Name)

For example: ECC HST 101 – OL1 – David Berry

The history paper is intended to accomplish the following objectives: The student should be able to answer the following criteria items in their finished work. Basically, the student is demonstrating their understanding of what the author was communicating in the primary source, what influenced the author to write the primary source or why the primary source was written, and what impact the primary source had. Then, to substantiate the concepts presented by the student, the student must connect four historical events or impacts with the concepts — two that influenced the author(s) and two that the author(s) influenced with the primary source.

In order to complete this assignment successfully, the student needs to understand and construct an essay that demonstrates that the student has an understanding of the following:

The time period during which the primary source was written and details pertaining to the time period in history during which the primary source was written/published. What history/events propelled the author to write the document? Set the historical stage – establish what was going on in the time period of the author.
The main point(s) of the primary source. The student must be able to successfully communicate these points; the major themes or correlated concepts presented in the primary source. What does the document communicate to its audience? NOTE: To meet this objective, it is imperative to demonstrate successful analysis of the source, not just a listing of points made in the source. By accomplishing this, you are depicting your understanding of the intention of the author and the meaning of the document which ultimately will allow you to tie together objective number 1 and 3, here within.
An explanation or correlation, as to your opinion, of the author’s conclusions and their relevance in history referencing historical facts as a basis for your opinion – what EFFECT did the publication/writing of the document have on history and specific events? How does the writing AFFECT events/history as we know them today for both the time period it was written and in relationship the impact on us in modern day?
To achieve success with objectives 1 and 3, the specifics detailed for these two objectives must be correlated. Specifically, there must be a connection made to the circumstances that may have influenced the production of the primary source and the impact of the primary source after it was written or published.
In addition to establishing a conceptual relationship in your essay, you must prove an association with actual historical events. Specific events must be mentioned in meeting both objective 1 (at least two events) and object 3 (at least two events) that specifically demonstrate the students’ understanding and association with the conceptual relationship presented.