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history ch 10
chapter 10 terms
Question | Answer |
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Allah | God |
islam | a monotheistic religion that developed in Arabia in the seventh century |
muslim | a follower of Islam |
hijrah | Muhammad's migration from Mecca to yathrib in A.D 622 |
mosque | an Islamic place of worship |
hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims |
Qur'an | the holy book of islam |
caliph | a supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government |
shi'a | the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad |
sufi | a muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means |
fatimid | a member of a muslim dynasty that traced its ancestry to Muhammad's daughter Fatima and that built an empire in north Africa, Arabia, and syria in the 10th-12th centuries |
calligraphy | the art of beautiful handwriting |