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Islam
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Environment | Air,water, and land in which people and animals live |
| Create | To make something exist |
| Issue | Problem or object that people discuss |
| Interpret | To explain the meaning of something |
| Decline | Gradual decrease in the quality or importance of something |
| Monitor | To careful watch something |
| Muhammad | like Judaism and Christianity |
| Oasis | an oasis is a fertile place in the desert where a spring or well provides a water supply |
| Nomadic | one was a nomadic life, in which people move from place to place with no fixed home |
| sedentary | or settled life in oasis towns or trade centers |
| Khadija | at 25 he married a wealthy widowed merchant named Khadija |
| Qur'an | the holy book |
| mosque | is a Muslim house of worship |
| alms | are goods or money given to the poor or neddy |
| fasting | not eating or drinking for a period of time |
| pilgrimage | is a journey to a sacred place or shrine |
| Abu Bakr | as their leader he was given the title of caliph or successor. |
| caliph | Successor |
| umar ibn al-khattab | took Islam to nearby lands |
| jihad | Holy struggle |
| khalid ibn al-walid | made the following promise |
| sunnis | are the majority Islamic sect |
| shiites | Form the largest minority Islamic sect |