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BMMS 7th History Ch3
7th grade history vocab for Bell Mountain Middle School(BMMS)
Term | Definition |
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nomad | a person who moves from place to place rather than settling permanently |
oasis | a fertile area in the midst of a desert |
clan | a group of people related by blood or marriage |
Allah | God in the Islamic religion |
monotheism | a belief in one god |
pilgrimage | a journey to a sacred place or shrine |
Islam | a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Muhammad |
Muslim | a person who follows the religion of Islam, accepting Allah as the only god |
Qur'an | the Muslim holy book, consisting of revelations from Allah that were collected by Muhammad's followers after his death |
Sunnah | Muhammad's words and deeds, which serve Muslims as a guide for proper living |
mosque | a building for Muslim worship, designed to face the city of Mecca |
caliph | a ruler of the Muslim community, viewed as a successor of Muhammad |
Shi'a | a Muslim group that resisted the Umayyads' rule, believing that the caliph should be a relative of the prophet Muhammad |
Sunni | a member of the Muslim group that accepted the rule of the elected caliphs and did not resist the Umayyads |
Hijrah | the move of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to the city of Yathrib in A.D. 622 |
Ka'aba | a small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that is the goal of Islamic pilgrimage and the point toward which Muslims turn in praying |