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Chapter 11
Term | Definition |
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Mecca | it is the place that the people in religion called Islam that is the place were they face to pray everyday. |
Bedouins | |
Kaaba | Is a Muslim house of worship. |
Khadija | she was Muhammad's First wife. |
Quran | it is the book that Muhammad's prophesy's were written down in. |
People of the book | the Christians,Jews and Muslims were to be seen as superior to polytheistic idol worshipers. |
Sharia | it is a Islamic system of law. |
Oasis | a fertile area in a desert ,watered by a natural well or spring. |
Hijra | the journey that the Muslims took when they left Mecca. |
Monotheistic | it is the belief in one God. |
Mosque | it is the gathering in a house of worship called Masjids or Mosque. |
Hajj | the pilgrimage of Mecca. |
Jihad | effort in God's service,as another duty. |
Abu Bakr | he was one of the early converts to Islam. |
Battle of tours | it is the battle wear they go and raid the people that are one they way to sale their goods. |
Fatima and Ali | they were Muhammad's Daughter and son-in-law. |
Sufi | they helped spread Islam through missionary work. |
Umayyads | they defeated Ali and killed his son dishonoring the prophet's family. |
Abbassids | it is the Dynasty that lasted tell 1258. |
Harun al-rashid | he was very generous to get in good with people that are higher up. |
Seljurks | it means sultan or authority that rules. |
Tamerlane | he was a Mongol leader that led his armies into the middle east. |
Capliph | of a successor to Muhammad. |
minaret | slender towers of mosques. |
Muzzin | a official that climbed to the top of the mosque to tell the people that it was time to pray. |
Sultan | ruler,or authority, controlled by baghdad. |
Omar Khayyám | he was a writer. |
Averroes | he was a Spanish Muslim that tried to reconcile the teaching of Arostile with Islam. |
Muhammad Al-Razi | he was the head doctor at Baghdad Hospital. |
Avicenna | he helped come up with so medical teachings that would last for over 500 years. |
Social mobility | it is the ability to move up in the classes. |
Arabesque | it is an intricate design composed of curved lines that suggest floral shapes,appeared in rugs,textiles,and glassware. |
Calligraphy | the art of Beautiful handwriting. |
Sikhism | it is the combined religion's of Islam and Hinduism. |
Babur | he defeated the Sultan of Delhi and he set up the Mughal Dynasty that lasted from 1526 to 1857. |
Mughal | it was the Dynasty that was set up by Babur. |
Nur Jahan | |
Taj Mahal | it is a tomb built for his favorite wife that died at the age of 39. |
Sultanate | land ruled by a Sultan. |
Caste | the Hindu social system or social groups from which they could not change. |
Rajah | they were local rulers that the Sultan left to look after the Kingdom. |