Modern vs. Traditional

VS

Intro Clip• Create a list that shows how life in Saudi

Arabia is different than life in the US.

Traditional Islam

DIRECTIONS

1. Divide your TRADITIONAL ISLAM page into four equal sections.

Traditional Islam A) INTRO 1. 2. 3.

B Role of Women:1.2.3

C) Characteristics of Religious Law:1.2.3.

D) Economy1. 2.

DIRECTIONS

1. Divide your TRADITIONAL ISLAM page into four equal sections.

2. Copy the outline for each section. 3. To get the file go to:

My computer - S:) Student – Orso Folder – SW Asia – Open the file called “Traditional – 11”

Economic Development

or Traditional Values?

Modern Islamic Nations in SW Asia have a major decision…

READ ONLY

A) INTRO1) Religion of Islam regulates all aspects of

society.

2) No separation of religion from politics and economics (Religion is part of EVERYTHING)

3) Government = a Theocracy based on the …

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B) Traditional Role of Women:

1) Must wear headscarf and be veiled.

2) Life devoted to husband and raising children.

3) Limited rights couldn’t drive cars, work in a professional workplace, flirt/talk to men other than their husbands.

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C) Religious Law – Characteristics

1) Laws based on the Qu’ran

2) Religious guidelines for prayers, fasting, giving to the poor, and many other religious matters

3) Social guidelines for personal hygiene, diet, and raising children

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Life In Saudi Arabia – part 1• I gave my wife her abaya I had purchased a few weeks

earlier. The abaya is the floor length long sleeve garment that all women in Saudi must wear when out in public. The Muslim women in Saudi must also wear a headscarf, and most of the actual Saudi women wear a veil. Western women were never required to wear a veil, but there were several times when we were downtown and the “Mutawwah”, the religious police, told my wife to cover her head.

• Life in Saudi is measured mostly by Sharia, or ultra conservative Muslim law, of which the Saudi version includes women not being allowed to drive, wearing the abaya at all times, forbidding all alcohol and virtually all other Western “vices”. There are no theaters, no public bowling alleys, no bars or nightclubs. All restaurants have two sections; a single males section and a family section. Women downtown by themselves or with other women had to sit in the family section; otherwise they could be arrested for “prostitution.”

Life in Saudi Arabia – part 2• Islamic law also dictates 5 prayer times a day; sunrise, mid morning, just

after the noon hour, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening. In most Middle Eastern countries when the mullahs give the prayer call from the many minarets (towers) dotting the cities, the faithful go to the mosque and perform their ritual prayers and then return to work or whatever they were doing at the time of prayer call. Businesses continue to operate, and life goes on as usual. In Saudi, however, when prayer time comes, the entire economy comes to a screeching halt! Stores close, restaurants shut their doors, and things come to a complete stop until the prayers are over. Considering this happens 5 times a day, you can imagine how much of a hassle that becomes! Every westerner I knew carried a prayer schedule with them at all times; you planned any day out in the public or downtown around the prayer schedules.

• If you were in a restaurant or grocery store and prayer time was called, you were able to be locked in and continue to eat or gather groceries into your cart. The lights would be dimmed, but you were able to go about your business. If you went to eat at night though you always carried a candle so you could see your food when the lights went out during prayers!

D) Economy1. Based on primary activities

like fishing and agriculture 2. Stock market, debt, and

interest are banned, seen as a form of gambling

3. Businesses must give money to charity

Traditional market selling agricultural products

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Exit Ticket - L

1) Create a list explaining how a day at school be different living under Islamic religious law.

- You may draw out your answer if you want.

- Use the previous slides about Life in Saudi Arabia to help you.

2) Answer the question of the day in your notebook like usual.

Directions: Write your answer on the exit ticket paper provided to your group.

Task H – Complete on the half sheet of paper provided to you.

1) Create a list explaining how a day at school be different living under Islamic religious law.

- You may draw out your answer if you want

2) Explain how a traditional Islamic society has a negative impact on a society’s economy and economic growth.

Anthony Bourdain in

Saudi Arabia

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmdg5SfkaeA

• PART TWO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdhkS1Mef5Q

PART ONE – start at 8 mins