{"id":65514,"date":"2018-09-22T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=65514"},"modified":"2018-09-23T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:56:09","slug":"islam-and-mormonism-some-similarities-and-differences-second-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/09\/islam-and-mormonism-some-similarities-and-differences-second-part.html","title":{"rendered":"Islam and Mormonism: Some Similarities and Differences (Second Part)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Masjid-e<\/a>
Details of the essentially fourteenth-century Masjid e-Jomeh in Yazd, central Iran. At the top, not quite entirely in the photo, are the Arabic words \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d (\u201cGod is Most Great\u201d).
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Apparently I already posted this little collection of notes sometime last year. \u00a0But some folks evidently didn\u2019t see that posting, so I think that I\u2019ll finish it:<\/p>\n

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Similarities (continued)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Both Islam and Mormonism<\/a> see an end to history, which is moving in linear fashion toward a divinely-determined goal.\u00a0 There are many prophecies about the Last Days in both faiths, and these prophecies are, in a number of ways, rather similar.\u00a0 In Islam, Jesus will return and confront al-Dajjal, an anti-Christ figure.\u00a0 There will be earthquakes and great destruction and, finally, the Last Judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All human beings will be resurrected\u2014literally, bodily\u2014and brought before God for judgment, in both faiths.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the Prophet Muhammad died, a dispute arose regarding the succession.\u00a0 The group that came to be known as the Shi\u2018ites holds that his successor (the imam) must be his closest surviving male relative.\u00a0 The so-called Sunnis believe that the lineage of the successor (the caliph) is relatively unimportant, so long as there is<\/em> a successor to enforce and interpret the law.\u00a0 There is obviously at least a superficial similarity here to the split between the Latter-day Saints and the Reorganized Church.\u00a0 (In practice, however, the line of Shi\u2018ite imams seems to have died out in the late ninth century, and the Sunni caliphate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, the reformist founder of modern Turkey, in the early twentieth century.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Qur\u2019an is a book of revelations received by the Prophet Muhammad over the course of his twenty-two year ministry.\u00a0 The revelations are arranged, roughly, according to chronological considerations.\u00a0 It is not a narrative about Muhammad, and was not written by him, but is believed to represent the actual voice of God speaking to his prophet\u00a0 (either audibly or by internal inspiration).\u00a0 In several respects, it can be compared to the Doctrine and Covenants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic culture, like Mormon culture<\/a>, tends to be patriarchal and to place considerable emphasis on the family.\u00a0 Many of our values (e.g., chastity) are similar.\u00a0 However, Islam allows greater latitude to a double standard than Latter-day Saints can tolerate.\u00a0 (In other words, female chastity tends to be more vital in Islamic eyes\u2014in practice, although not in theory\u2014than does male chastity.)\u00a0 And, while the family plays an indispensable role in Latter-day Saint doctrine and expectations for the afterlife, it appears to be more of a cultural matter in Islamic areas.\u00a0 (Illustration:\u00a0 Plural marriage was an innovation, mandated by revelation to Joseph Smith, in nineteenth century Mormonism.\u00a0 In Islam, although polygamy is permitted, it has no particular religious significance.\u00a0 Islamic law simply regulates a pre-existing practice.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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That said, however, it is clear (with all the talk of the houris<\/em>, or the virgins of paradise) that Islamic expectations of the afterlife do include gender differentiation and continued sexual behavior.\u00a0 Although the parallel to Latter-day Saint doctrines relating to eternal marriage is only vague, it has been the object of considerable mockery among critics of the Church from the nineteenth century until today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stay tuned for \u201cDifferences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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