Early Christianity in Roman VS. Early Islam
I am writing about early Christianity, the traditional Roman religious practices, comparing to the Islamic beliefs and science and mathematics in early Islam. This essay mainly focuses on the contents of the primary source to compare and analyze the selected excerpts in order to provide the different religious beliefs and practices and how that had effects on the people’s view and how did let the different nations to grow and develop their views. In the first excerpt, “On the Separation of Mathematics and Religion, 1058-1111”, Al-Ghazzali who is one of the greatest early Muslin theologians, philosophers and jurist, believes in the separation of Islam and mathematics from each other’s. He believes …show more content…
The worshipper should have followed a certain kind of steps and they should have done them correctly in order to be accepted. For example: they had different words of prayer for all various situations “ Some words are appropriate for seeking favorable omens, others for warding off evil, and still others for securing help” (59). They should have also pronounced each word correctly, otherwise it would have been ruined or interrupted. For example: “There are recorded remarkable cases where either ill-omened noises have interrupted and ruined the ritual or an error has been made in the strict wording of the prayer” (59). In slaughtering a sow to God, they should have also performed a ritual in a correct way and follow each step correctly in order to get God’s satisfaction and favor. “Offer sacrificial cracker to Janus with the following words: Father Janus… I humbly pray that you may be benevolent and well disposed toward me and my children…Offer an oblation cracker to Jupiter…Afterward offer wine to Janus…Afterward offer wine to Jupiter…And then slaughter the sow as a preliminary sacrifice”(59-60). The interesting thing here is that they had been treated their Gods each time as a human not as creator, they offered their Gods with wine, crackers, and they should have offered the cracker first and then the
I am writing about early Christianity, the traditional Roman religious practices, comparing to the Islamic beliefs and science and mathematics in early Islam. This essay mainly focuses on the contents of the primary source to compare and analyze the selected excerpts in order to provide the different religious beliefs and practices and how that had effects on the people’s view and how did let the different nations to grow and develop their views. In the first excerpt, “On the Separation of Mathematics and Religion, 1058-1111”, Al-Ghazzali who is one of the greatest early Muslin theologians, philosophers and jurist, believes in the separation of Islam and mathematics from each other’s. He believes …show more content…
The worshipper should have followed a certain kind of steps and they should have done them correctly in order to be accepted. For example: they had different words of prayer for all various situations “ Some words are appropriate for seeking favorable omens, others for warding off evil, and still others for securing help” (59). They should have also pronounced each word correctly, otherwise it would have been ruined or interrupted. For example: “There are recorded remarkable cases where either ill-omened noises have interrupted and ruined the ritual or an error has been made in the strict wording of the prayer” (59). In slaughtering a sow to God, they should have also performed a ritual in a correct way and follow each step correctly in order to get God’s satisfaction and favor. “Offer sacrificial cracker to Janus with the following words: Father Janus… I humbly pray that you may be benevolent and well disposed toward me and my children…Offer an oblation cracker to Jupiter…Afterward offer wine to Janus…Afterward offer wine to Jupiter…And then slaughter the sow as a preliminary sacrifice”(59-60). The interesting thing here is that they had been treated their Gods each time as a human not as creator, they offered their Gods with wine, crackers, and they should have offered the cracker first and then the