Fr. Illyas Questions: (John, Daniel, Xeris, David, Hailie, Carter)
1. What value was it for Fr. Illyas to take his friend's advice and ask for a travel pass for his voyage to the new world? From whom did he acquire a pass?
2. What was Fr. Illyas asked to perform in every town he visited? Why?
3. Compare Fr. Illyas's "Atlantic crossing" during the Age of Exploration with other "Atlantic crossings" of the period?
4. Compare and contrast Fr. Illyas's time in Cadiz with that of al-Ghassani.
5. List the places Fr. Illyas visited in the New World, and discuss his encounters.
al-Ghassani Questions: (Chris, Kaylin, Meagan, Laura, Parker, Caroline)
1. Why do you think al-Ghassani renounced Christian "institutions" yet repeatedly quoted the Bible and had great respect for the Christian God?
2. What are al-Ghassani's views of the Christian church? Provide evidence.
3. What did al-Ghassanni mean by "to honor one, they honor a thousand"?
4. Why does al-Ghassani go to Spain and what is this history of Muslim-Christian relations in this particular country during the Age of Exploration?
5. How does a shift in perspective illustrate historical bias?
**Bring answers to class tomorrow**
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1. I believe al-Ghassanni renounced Christian institutions because he still felt the brutality and xenophobia from them.
2. He strongly disliked the Catholics for “worshipping the cross”. He believed that they were brutal and therefore, his text is full of denunciations of the religious institutions.
3. “To honor one they honor a thousand” is referring to the honor for the Christian people. If al-Ghassani honors one Christian, it is like the has honored the whole group.
4. Al-Ghassani went to Spain to bring back books and to write an informative and empirically based description of the lands.
5. A shift in perspective represents historical bias because the information is coming from a new point of view. The new perspective could now have a different background, race, religion, gender, etc.
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