Transcript Traditional - 11

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) Economy
1.
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”
Modern Islamic Nations in SW Asia have a major decision…
Economic Development
or Traditional Values?
READ
ONLY
A) INTRO
COPY
BOX
1) 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 …
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.
COPY
BOX
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
COPY
BOX
3) Social guidelines for
personal hygiene, diet,
and raising children
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!
COPY
BOX
D) Economy
1. 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
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=BdhkS1Mef5Q
PART ONE – start at 8 mins
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmdg5SfkaeA
• PART TWO