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Ch 10 Islamic World
Islam vocab chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arabic word for god | Allah |
| founder and prophet of islam | Muhammad |
| earliest monotheistic religion that developed in arabia | Islam |
| followers of Islam | Muslim |
| Muhammads migration from Mecca to Yathrib | Hijrah |
| holy book of Islam | Qur'an |
| islam house of worship | Mosque |
| a pilgrimage to Mecca | Hajj |
| An islamic model for living | Sunna |
| a body of law governing the lives of muslims | Shari'ah |
| a supreme political and religious leader in muslim government | Caliph |
| the branch of islam whose members acknowledge Ali as the rightful successor | Shiite |
| a muslim who seeks the achieve direct contact with god through mystical means | Sufi |
| to pray five times a day | Salat |
| muslim holy month of prayer and fasting | Ramadan |
| open marketplace in a muslim country | Bazaar |
| one who calls muslims to pray | Muezzin |
| slender tower attached to the mosque | Minaret |
| earliest surviving islamic monument, where Muhammad ascended into heaven | Dome of the Rock |
| holiest city of islam | Mecca |
| branch of Islam that acknowledges the 1st 4 caliphs as rightful successors of Muhammad | Sunni |
| a muslims religious duty | Five Pillars |
| political leader with absolute power | Sultan |
| a religious leader, regarded as sinless, with direct linage to Ali | Imam |
| the name of this city means the "city of the prophet" | Medina |
| nomadic, desert tribesmen who began settlements in the Arabian desert | Bedouin |
| title given to each leader of the Muslim Empire following Muhammad's death- it means "Successor" | Caliph |
| nick-name given to the first 4 leaders to rule after Muhammad, elected by the Muslim community | "Rightly Guided" |
| these rulers moved the capital from Mecca to Damascus and lived a luxurious lifestyle | Umayyad Caliphs |
| group of Muslims living a life of poverty seeking direct contact with Allah | Sufi |
| empire established in North Africa, named after Muhammad's daughter | Fatimid Dynasty |
| name of the Muslim state formed in southern Spain by the Umayyad Empire | Al-Andalus |
| the larger of the two branches of Islam that embraced Muhammad's example (Sunna) as the proper way to live | Sunnis |
| the capital of the Abbasid Empire | Baghdad |
| capital of the Fatimid Dynasty | Cairo |
| social class in which the "protected people" belonged | third class |
| name given to the "people of the book," Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians who enjoyed certain priviliges over other non-Muslims | "protected people" |
| the important center of learning under the Abbasid rule in Baghdad | House of Wisdom |
| an artistic style of handwriting created by Muslims | Calligraphy |
| Muslim scholar whose work in mathematics has contributed to modern math (algebra) | Al-Kwarazini |
| Muslim scholar whose work in optics helped develop the modern telescopes and microscopes, leading to greater understanding of the universe | Ibn-al-Haytham |
| this new method of learning formed the foundation for the scientific method of the Enlightenment in Europe hundreds of years later | observation and experimentation |
| these factors helped Islam spread quickly over 3 continents following Muhammad's death | military skills, familiarity with monotheism, tolerance of other religions, and unity of religous and public lives |
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