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Chapter 9 MR
Chapter 9 Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bedouins | desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group |
| Muhammad | Praiseworthy |
| Hegira | A flight to escape danger |
| Islam | is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion |
| Muslims | is an adherent of Islam |
| Qur'an | many languages |
| Five Pillars of Islam | are five basic acts in Islam |
| Jihad | an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims |
| Bedouins | desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group |
| Caliph | ruler of the Islamic Ummah |
| Caliphate | "dominion of a caliph ('successor')" |
| Sunnis | is the largest branch of Islam |
| Shia | second largest denomination of Islam |
| Sufis | mystical dimension of Islam |
| Abbasid | was the third of the Islamic caliphates |
| Muslims | is an adherent of Islam |
| Umayyad | was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates |
| Astrolabe | is an elaborate inclinometer |
| Ibn Rushd | was a defender |
| Ibn Sina | wrote almost 450 treatises |
| Ibn Khaldun | Muslim historiographer |
| Calligraphy | is a type of visual art related to writing |
| Minarets | is a distinctive architectural feature |
| Rumi | 13th-century Persian Muslim poet |
| Omar Khayyam | died in 1131 and is buried in the Khayyam Garden |
| Mosque | Building where muslims worship |