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Room 144 Michael Pregill Going Astray Like Those Who Went Before: Anti-Judaism and Prophetic History in Medieval Sunni-Shiite Polemic The Quran creates deliberate parallels between the careers of the prophets of the past – especially Abraham, Noah, Moses, and Jesus – and the career of Muhammad. Subsequently, as the Islamic community grew and sectarian divisions developed, each group, Sunnis and Shiites, found ways to reinterpret the Quranic portrayal of the pre-Islamic prophets as promising salvation for their group and damnation for others. Polemic against sectarian rivals often hinged on the claim that fellow Muslims who had chosen the wrong path had gone astray “following the path of Israel [i.e. the Jews] measure for measure.” My discussion of the use of anti-Jewish language and images in the dynamic of sectarian exchanges will focus on a unique Shiite manuscript, originally composed in the tenth century CE, that aims to propagandize Sunnis by advancing this claim and portraying all of salvation history, from the pre-Islamic prophets of Israel to Muhammad’s foundation of the Islamic community, as culminating in the Shiite path as the unique means of gaining salvation. |
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Room 150 Caroline Ketcham MOTOR MATTERS: THE ROLE MOVEMENT PLAYS IN THE DEVELOPING CHILD Movement is something so many of us take for granted; walking, writing, smiling, talking – these all involve movement – complex patterns our neuromusculoskeletal system plan, organize and execute. People who work with kids developing know how miraculous it is to watch a child acquire coordinated movement. If you know a child with developmental disabilities or movement disorders, you begin to understand how complex it really can be. But what about kids that fall in the middle? The kids who are clumsy, awkward, uncoordinated, unathletic? What about kids with common diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorder, ADHD/ADD, sensory processing disorders? How much does motor matter for their success? |