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MULTICULTURAL PHILOSOPHY
PROF. MIRZA
ASSIGNMENT #1: KEY IDEAS, FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM
SPRING 2018
Instructions: In response to each of the five questions given in this sheet, give a clear,
well-structured answer. While you should study the material from the books and the
lectures in order to give the best answer you can, each answer that you hand in must be
the result of your own work, reflection, and understanding.
Please review this sheet carefully several times and make sure to ask me questions
about it by email if there is anything you don’t understand.
Format for Each Answer:
Maximum 1 page, typed, double-spaced.
Required font size: 12.
Use only Times New Roman font.
Put your student ID number on each sheet.
Do not put your name on any sheet.
Use standard margins (1.0-1.25”).
Use a separate sheet for each separate answer.
Emailed answers will not be accepted.
Format for Assignment
All sheets are to be stapled together.
Deadline: This assignment is due to Professor Mirza in class on Wednesday February
14th.
Grace Period: There will be a grace period till Monday February 19th. No assignments
will be accepted after 1:45pm on February 19th, for any reason at all.
Academic Honesty: Any objective, convincing evidence that someone has copied the
writings of others without giving due credit, even to the extent of a single sentence, and
even if some minor changes have been made, will result in an ‘F’ for this assignment, and
an ‘F’ for the course. No exceptions will be made for any reason.
All your assignments will be rigorously cross-checked against each other and
against the textbook, and a random sample will be processed using other methods as well.
None of these rules is subject to any discussion whatsoever.
Working With Others: You are allowed, and encouraged, to discuss these questions
with your classmates. However, the goal of any such discussion must be to understand
the material for yourself, and then to explain the material according to your own
understanding, and in your own words.
Key Theme of Assignment 1: The point of this assignment is to give you a chance to
prove that you understand this material.
So you must first have an understanding of the relevant topics, and then you must
demonstrate that understanding by imagining that in each answer, you are explaining the
material to someone new to the study of Islam and new to the topic of the question.
This will be repeated frequently, because it can’t be stressed enough: you are not
addressing Professor Mirza with these answers, rather you are addressing a hypothetical
beginning student who is new to these topics.
Strategy for Working on These Questions:
For each question, it is recommended that you follow these steps.
(1) Make sure you understand the question as it is stated to the best of your ability,
and make notes on any ideas that you have in response to the question.
(2) Determine what aspects of your lecture notes are most relevant to answering the
question.
(3) Study carefully the parts of your lecture notes that you identified in the second
step above, until you are sure you understand them.
(4) Think about how to apply your understanding to the specific question in front of
you.
(5) Make notes about how to explain your answer to a beginner who is new to this
specific topic.
(6) Write a draft of your answer within the space limits already mentioned.
(7) Revise and check your draft to improve it until you are confident that it satisfies
that requirements laid out in the relevant section.
(8) Make sure that your grammar, punctuation, and spelling are all correct, and that
each answer as well as the assignment as a whole satisfies the format
requirements laid out above.
Warning: If you merely try to loosely copy some passage from someone else while
changing names and details, you will not only risk getting charged with dishonesty, but
you will most likely get very few points.
WRITING QUESTIONS:
1. Explain clearly and briefly, in your own words, the six fundamentals of Islamic
belief.
2. Explain clearly and briefly, in your own words, the five pillar of the Islamic
religion.
3. Explain clearly and briefly, in your own words, the ideal of spiritual excellence in
the Islamic religion.
4. Monotheists say that only God is worthy of worship. What do you think might
make an object or person worthy of worship? Include a brief explanation of how
you understand ‘worship’.
5. What criteria would you recommend to people to help them decide whether or not
someone was a prophet from God?
How Your Assignment Will Be Graded
(1) In this assignment, and every assignment in this course, it is your job to prove
to me that you understand the material. I will assume that you do not
understand what you are talking about until I see clear proof, on the paper in
front of me, that you do.
This is very important: you do not get the benefit of the doubt for this or
any other assignment.
(2) Any pages in excess of the one-page limit for each answer will be ignored,
and only the first page will be graded.
(3) Every answer can receive a maximum of 10 points.
(4) For any answer you hand in, I will deduct one point for each sufficiently bad
violation of one of the following requirements.
Requirements for Answers:
(a) Make sure that your understanding of the topics you are required to explain is
correct. If you show an inaccurate understanding, you will lose points.
(b) Make sure that every sentence you write is true, justifiable, and clear.
(c) Make sure that you are writing for a beginning level student who is new to the
material, and write so that such a student can understand what is going on.
(Professor Mirza is not your audience here, so do not write to explain things to
him). Lack of clarity will lead to losing points.
(d) Make each answer sufficiently clear and detailed that any reasonable and
informed person can see that it correctly answers the question.
If you have any doubts about whether or not you have put in enough detail, be
on the safe side and put in more detail, while still keeping your answer within the
space limits already set.
There is no minimum length, but if your answer is less than a page in length, it
most likely does not have enough detail in it.
(e) Use standard, neutral English in your answer (not slang).
(f) Keep your answers focused and concise: do not waste any words, do not write
introductions, do not put in anything more than what you need to get your point
across.
(g) Each answer should be understandable independently of every other answer.
(h) Use a new paragraph for each new idea.
(i) Use proper spelling throughout each answer.
(j) Use proper punctuation throughout each answer.
(k) Use proper grammar throughout each answer.
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