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Watch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DqElTUnH4 Koran by Heart], a beautiful documentary about a Qur'an competition. | Watch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DqElTUnH4 Koran by Heart], a beautiful documentary about a Qur'an competition. | ||
Also: memorize [http://quran.com/112 Surat Ikhlas] (chapter 112 of the Qur'an) -- containing just four short verses -- and try to perform along with the recording, using this website: http://quran.com/112. Note that you can turn transliteration on or off. The Qur'an contains 114 chapters or ''suras'', arranged roughly from long to short. Surat al-Ikhlas (chapter of sincerity), also known as Surat al-Tawhid (chapter of Unity) is said to contain the essence of the Qur'an as a whole. | Also: memorize [http://quran.com/112 Surat Ikhlas] (chapter 112 of the Qur'an) -- containing just four short verses -- and try to perform along with the recording, using this website: http://quran.com/112. Note that you can turn transliteration on or off, and listen. The Qur'an contains 114 chapters or ''suras'', arranged roughly from long to short. Surat al-Ikhlas (chapter of sincerity), also known as Surat al-Tawhid (chapter of Unity) is said to contain the essence of the Qur'an as a whole. | ||
== Class == | == Class == | ||
= Thursday (2b) = | = Thursday (2b) = | ||
Revision as of 19:52, 3 September 2015
Tuesday (2a)
Due today
Report including the following:
Read:
- Labib al-Said, The Recited Koran, pp. 11-27, 53-76
- Frishkopf, [Mediated Qur'anic Recitation and the Contestation of Islam in Contemporary Egypt http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/Mediated_Quranic_recitation_offprint.pdf], pp. 75-84 top part , and pp. 111 (Conclusions) to 114 (& read more if you’d like). Listen to the audio examples: ex 3.1, ex 3.2, ex. 3.3,
- Nelson, Kristina. The Art of Reciting the Qur'an (on reserve and in bookstore); browse this important book. Get a sense of its scope, read selectively according to your interests. (Get used to this mode of “reading diagonally”, i.e. not reading every word)
Watch: Koran by Heart, a beautiful documentary about a Qur'an competition.
Also: memorize Surat Ikhlas (chapter 112 of the Qur'an) -- containing just four short verses -- and try to perform along with the recording, using this website: http://quran.com/112. Note that you can turn transliteration on or off, and listen. The Qur'an contains 114 chapters or suras, arranged roughly from long to short. Surat al-Ikhlas (chapter of sincerity), also known as Surat al-Tawhid (chapter of Unity) is said to contain the essence of the Qur'an as a whole.
Class
Thursday (2b)
No class today, but please submit assignments on time anyway.
Due today:
- Shiloah pp. 1-26
- Empire of Faith part 2
- Schimmel, pp. 29-50