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Time flies! We wrapped up my #IntroToIslamGU course this week (well, except for their final research papers...). It was such a pleasure to teach this wonderful group of students—and to learn from them, too. Here's what we've been up to over the last month or so (thread): 
During our week on “hot topics,” we first looked shari’a, commonly known as Islamic law. We discussed what it is and common misconceptions about it in the US. To prep, we listened to @OttomanHistory podcast's episode on it and watched a talk by @AQuraishiLandes.
A main takeaway was that shari’a is not a single, fixed legal code, but is Muslims’ endeavors to discern and implement God’s will. Fun fact: Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews have used the word shari'a, too, to refer to divine law.
I really enjoyed our two week unit on the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in #IntroToIslamGU. This thread covers what we did.
“What I find truly challenging is to communicate, and to understand myself, what Muhammad has meant to Muslims over the centuries.” -@JonathanACBrown
“What I find truly challenging is to communicate, and to understand myself, what Muhammad has meant to Muslims over the centuries.” -@JonathanACBrown
We began by reading a standard biography of the Prophet, looking at his life and mission as attested to by the Islamic tradition. (Reading: Ch. 1 of Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by @JonathanACBrown)
I'd intended to show clips from two films about Prophet's life (and which employ creative strategies to avoid showing his body and/orface), but we ran out of time. The first is this 2015 Iranian made film:
