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The Islamic World.ck
ch 3 and 4 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tolerance | acceptance |
| mosque | a building for Muslim prayer |
| shrine | a place where people worshipped a saint or god |
| pilgrimage | a journey to a sacred place |
| sand dunes | hills of sand shaped by the wind |
| oasis | a wet fertile area in a desert |
| Qur'an | the holy book of Islam |
| Muslim | a follower of Islam |
| sedentary | settled |
| caravan | a group of traders that travel together |
| souk | a market or bazaar |
| jihad | to make an effort or to struggle |
| Five Pillars of Islam | five acts of worship required of all Muslims |
| tolerance | acceptance |
| mosque | a building for Muslim prayer |
| shrine | a place where people worshipped a saint or god |
| what is pilgrimage | a journey to a sacred place |
| what are sand dunes | hills of sand shaped by the wind |
| oasis | a wet fertile area in a desert |
| what is the Qur'an | the holy book of Islam |
| Muslim | a follower of Islam |
| sedentary | settled |
| what is a caravan | a group of traders that travel together |
| souk | a market or bazaar |
| jihad | to make an effort or to struggle |
| Five Pillars of Islam | five acts of worship required of all Muslims |
| what is a caliph | a title that Muslims use for the highest leader of Islam |
| what are Janissaries | slave soldiers who were converted to Islam and became fierce fighters |
| what is a sultan | an Ottoman ruler |
| what is a harmen | an area of the household where women lived, apart from men |
| what are patrons | sponsors |
| what is a minaret | a narrow tower where Muslims are called to prayer |
| what is calligraphy | decorative writing |