2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) 4 3/4 in digital optical videodisc NTSC video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Notes:
"Course No. 6019"--Container 12 lectures (30 minutes each) Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook Lecturer: Martyn Oliver, American University DVD In English; closed-captioned
Contents:
Disc 1. Finding a path into the Qur'an 7th- century Mecca: religion and oral tradition The Qur'an becomes a "book" From Mecca to Medina: the revelation transforms God and Tawhid: divine nature in the Qur'an The Qur'anic creation story. Disc 2. Judgement Day and the end times: Yawm ad-Din Abraham, Moses and Qur'anic faith Prophethood in the Qur'an: Jesus and others From the Qur'an to Islam: creating a practice Sharia and jihad: the Qur'an as legal text Qur'anic philosophy, theology, and mysticism