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1. Museum Entrance The Sunni Museum CONFLICTS HISTORY ROOM MAP ROOM TEACHINGS/ CURRENT The Prophet Muhammad Welcome! TURN AROUND!

2. HISTORY ROOM Sunni Museum SHARIA LAW SUNNI AND SHIA KORAN Back to Lobby

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4. CONFLICT! Back to Lobby

5. FIVE PILLARS POPULATION SCHOOLS Osama Bin Laden Back to Lobby

6. The Prophet Muhammad Insert Artifact Picture Here Born in 570 A.D. in the Arabian city of Mecca. A messenger and prophet of the God Allah. Muhammad founded Islam and preached it to the people he met. Back to LOBBY!!

7. Sunni and Shia Both Sunni and Shia Muslims share the most fundamental Islamic beliefs and articles of faith. Over the centuries, however, these political differences have spawned a number of varying practices and positions which have come to carry a spiritual significance. The division between Shia and Sunni dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad , and the question of who was to take over the leadership of the Muslim nation. Sunni Muslims agree with the position taken by many of the Prophet's companions, that the new leader should be elected from among those capable of the job. This is what was done, and the Prophet Muhammad's close friend and advisor, Abu Bakr, became the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The word "Sunni" in Arabic comes from a word meaning "one who follows the traditions of the Prophet.“ Back to Room 1

8. POPULATION Insert Artifact Picture Here Sunni Muslims make up the majority (85%) of Muslims all over the world. Significant populations of Shia Muslims can be found in Iran and Iraq, and large minority communities in Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon. Back to Room 4

9. Osama Bin Laden Insert Artifact Picture Here Osama Bin Laden was a Sunni Muslim. To him the end of the reign of the caliphs in the 1920s was catastrophic, as he made clear in a videotape made after 9-11. On the tape, broadcast by Al-Jazeera on October 7, 2001, he proclaimed: "What America is tasting now is only a copy of what we have tasted. ... Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more [than] eighty years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated." Back to Room 4

10. KORAN The Qur’an, is the main religious text of Islam, also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Kuran, Koran, Qur’ān, Coran or al-Qur’ān. It is widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the verbal divine guidance and moral direction for mankind. Muslims also consider the original Arabic verbal text to be the final revelation of God. Muslims believe that the Qur’an was revealed from God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel from 610 to 632 CE, Muhammad recited the Qur’an to his followers, numbering tens of thousands, who recited after him, until they had memorized it. He also dictated it to his scribes (Muhammad was illiterate) who wrote down its verses during his life. Shortly after Muhammad's death the Qur’an was established textually into a single book form by the order of the first Caliph Abu Bakr. Muslims hold the present form of the Qur’an as exactly the same as that revealed to Muhammad. Back to Room 1

11. SHARIA LAW Most Muslims believe Sharia is derived from two primary sources of Islamic law; namely, the divine revelations set forth in the Qur'an, and the example set by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. All Muslims believe Sharia is God's law, Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexuality, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting. Back to Room 1

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14. CONFLICT! Over the years Sunni-Shia relations have been marked by both cooperation and conflict, often with deadly violence. A period of relative harmony during most of the twentieth century has been replaced by conflict, particularly following the American invasion of Iraq.Today there are differences in religious practice, traditions and customs as well as religious beliefs. Back to Room 3

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17. SCHOOLS Islamic law is known as the Sharī‘ah. The Sharī‘ah is based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah. The Madh'hab translates to "way", and different Madhaheb (plural of Madh'hab) reflect different opinions on some laws and obligations of the Sharia, these sects are split into the Hanafi School, Maliki School, Shafi'i school, and Hanbali Schools The followers of these four schools follow the same basic belief system but differ from one another in terms of practice and execution of rituals, and in juristic interpretation of "divine principles" (or Shariah) as envisaged in Quran and Hadith. However Sunni Muslims consider them all equally valid Back to Room 4

18. Five Pillars Sunnis currently follow the Five Pillars, which consists of Shahadah or belief in the prophet Mohammad, Salah, or prayer, Zakah, or charitable giving, Sawm, or fasting, And Hajj, which is pilgrimage. Insert Artifact Picture Here Back to Room 4

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