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Chapter 9 Vocab BB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nomadic Arab Peoples | Bedouins |
| Prophet of the Islam whom Muslims recognize as Allah's messenger to all humankind. | Muhammad |
| Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina cam to as the ___ or Hijra. | Hegira |
| Faith called ___, meaning "Achieving peace through submission to God" | Islam |
| Number of followers, who were known as ___, grew up rapidly as Muhammad preached. | Muslims |
| The sacred text of Islam. | Qur'an |
| The Qur'an lays out five basic acts of worship that are central to Islam and that Muhammad himself fulfilled. | Five Pillars of Islam |
| A building for Muslin prayer. | Mosque |
| A word that can be translated as "struggle for the faith." | Jihad |
| One of Muhammad's closest companions and one of the earliest converts to Islam, was chosen. | Abu Bakr |
| "Successor" | Caliph |
| Area ruled by a Caliph, stretched all the way from northern Africa in the west to Persia in the east. | Caliphate |
| The first dynasty over the Muslim Caliphate. | Umayyad |
| "Followers of the Sunna" or "way of the prophet" | Sunnis |
| From the phrase that means "Party of Ali" | Shia |
| With addition to the Sunni and Shia division, a third group developed within Islam. | Sufis |
| Dynasty the overthrew the Umayyad dynasty to rule the Muslim caliphate from 750 to 1258. | Abbasid |
| The most prominent Abbasid caliph, helped bring Muslim culture to great heights during his reign from 786 to 809. | Harun al-Rashid |
| An instrument for finding the positions and movements of stars and planets. | Astrolabe |
| Wrote commentaries on Aristotle. | Ibn Rushd |
| A Persian doctor know also as Avicenna. | Ibn Sina |
| Wrote a history of the world. | Ibn Khaldun |
| Beautifully styled writing. | Calligraphy |
| Tall towers from which the faithful are called to prayer and domes are common features of mosques. | Minarets |
| Muslim poets produced works in several languages. One of them was Jalal ad-Din ___, whose Persian-language poems from the 1200s are still read and recited by many people. | Rumi |
| Writing in Persian was ____. His collection of four-line poems is called the Rubaiyat. | Omar Khayyam |
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