1. What balance is struck between the ways to becoming a good person between exercising the human ‘excellence’ of reason, mastering bad desires and conforming to moral laws and religious rituals?
2. In this text, what support is there for thinking that Muslims treat women differently than other groups we have studied?
3. Religious texts often make those ‘of the faith’, or ‘those who believe’ as a central concept that defines the community, and those who do not as not part of it. Who is defined as the other in this text, and what standing do they have?
4. What characteristics of the text make it more likely that one should believe what it says?
Application: Does reading the Qur'an help you understand the minorities like the Nation of Islam (African American muslims prominent in the 1960s) and the Islamic State behind terrorist attacks from the Middle East now. Are those qualities common to all religions or just Islam?
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