The Charter Of Medina

The Charter Of Medina Order Description Religion and Religious cultures topic: The Charter of Medina NOTE: All sources will be uploaded Main source: "The Charter of Medina" Author Ibn Ishaq Secondary Sources: -Yetkin Yildirim (2009) The Medina Charter: A Historical Case of Conflict Resolution, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 20:4, 439-450 -The Constitution of Medina: A Sociolegal Interpretation of Muhammad's Acts of Foundation of the "Umma" Author(s): Saïd Amir Arjomand -Edinburgh : University Press, ©1968. Guillaume, A. (1955) The Life of Muhammad. A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirah Rasul Allah (Karachi: Oxford University Press). (Please find 2 more secondary sources from wikiedia so you'd have a total of 5) Read about the charter of medina from wikipedia to get a general knowledge, and then using the main source write about what it was and a general history of the charter. Then using the secondary sources, back up the primary one on how the modern scholars analyzed it. Professors advice: Main Idea – What is the source about? Author/Creator – When was the source created/written? Context – What was going on in the region, locality, country, or world when this was created? Bias – Is the source reliable? Contributions – How does the primary source contribute to our understanding of religion/religious belief in the time period? Questions – What questions do you have about the source? What issues still remain?