Islam vocab chapter 10
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| arabic word for god | Allah
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| founder and prophet of islam | Muhammad
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| earliest monotheistic religion that developed in arabia | Islam
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| followers of Islam | Muslim
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| Muhammads migration from Mecca to Yathrib | Hijrah
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| holy book of Islam | Qur'an
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| islam house of worship | Mosque
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| a pilgrimage to Mecca | Hajj
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| An islamic model for living | Sunna
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| a body of law governing the lives of muslims | Shari'ah
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| a supreme political and religious leader in muslim government | Caliph
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| the branch of islam whose members acknowledge Ali as the rightful successor | Shiite
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| a muslim who seeks the achieve direct contact with god through mystical means | Sufi
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| to pray five times a day | Salat
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| muslim holy month of prayer and fasting | Ramadan
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| open marketplace in a muslim country | Bazaar
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| one who calls muslims to pray | Muezzin
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| slender tower attached to the mosque | Minaret
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| earliest surviving islamic monument, where Muhammad ascended into heaven | Dome of the Rock
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| holiest city of islam | Mecca
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| branch of Islam that acknowledges the 1st 4 caliphs as rightful successors of Muhammad | Sunni
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| a muslims religious duty | Five Pillars
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| political leader with absolute power | Sultan
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| a religious leader, regarded as sinless, with direct linage to Ali | Imam
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| the name of this city means the "city of the prophet" | Medina
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| nomadic, desert tribesmen who began settlements in the Arabian desert | Bedouin
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| title given to each leader of the Muslim Empire following Muhammad's death- it means "Successor" | Caliph
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| nick-name given to the first 4 leaders to rule after Muhammad, elected by the Muslim community | "Rightly Guided"
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| these rulers moved the capital from Mecca to Damascus and lived a luxurious lifestyle | Umayyad Caliphs
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| group of Muslims living a life of poverty seeking direct contact with Allah | Sufi
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| empire established in North Africa, named after Muhammad's daughter | Fatimid Dynasty
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| name of the Muslim state formed in southern Spain by the Umayyad Empire | Al-Andalus
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| the larger of the two branches of Islam that embraced Muhammad's example (Sunna) as the proper way to live | Sunnis
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| the capital of the Abbasid Empire | Baghdad
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| capital of the Fatimid Dynasty | Cairo
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| social class in which the "protected people" belonged | third class
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| name given to the "people of the book," Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians who enjoyed certain priviliges over other non-Muslims | "protected people"
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| the important center of learning under the Abbasid rule in Baghdad | House of Wisdom
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| an artistic style of handwriting created by Muslims | Calligraphy
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| Muslim scholar whose work in mathematics has contributed to modern math (algebra) | Al-Kwarazini
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| Muslim scholar whose work in optics helped develop the modern telescopes and microscopes, leading to greater understanding of the universe | Ibn-al-Haytham
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| this new method of learning formed the foundation for the scientific method of the Enlightenment in Europe hundreds of years later | observation and experimentation
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| these factors helped Islam spread quickly over 3 continents following Muhammad's death | military skills, familiarity with monotheism, tolerance of other religions, and unity of religous and public lives
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