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Ch. 11 History Vocab
Term | Definition |
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oasis | green area in a desert fed by underground water. |
sheikh | leader of an Arab tribe. |
caravan | group of traveling merchants and animals. |
Quran | holy book of Islam. |
caliph | important Muslim political and religious leader. |
Shiite | Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali as rightful rulers of Muslims. |
Sunni | Muslim group that accepts descendants of the Umayyads as rightful rulers of Muslims. |
sultan | military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country. |
mosque | Muslim house of worship. |
bazaar | marketplace. |
minaret | tower of a mosque from which the crier calls believers to prayer five times a day. |
crier | announcer who calls Muslim believers to prayer five times a day. |