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Ancient Arab World
for History test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| oasis | a place in the desert that has enough water for permanent life there |
| Mecca | the holy city of Islam |
| Muhammad | the first and only prophet of Islam |
| Islam | a monotheist religion |
| Muslim | a person who believes in Islam |
| Kaaba | a square-shaped temple in Mecca; the holiest Islamic place on earth |
| hijra | Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina |
| mosque | Muslim church of sorts |
| Quran | the holy book of Islam, like the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible |
| The Five Pillars of Islam | the five basic duties of Islam: 1. Believe in 1 god, Allah; 2. Pray 5 times a day; 3. give alms; 4. fast during Ramadan; 5. go on a hajj to Mecca if you have the finances |
| hajj | a pilgramige to Mecca |
| caliphs | the Muslim rulers who conquered much of the world |
| caliphate | the land the caliphs ruled |
| Baghdad | the capital of the caliphate |
| Avicenna | a Muslim & Persian doctor who wrote a medical text so valuable, it was used by European doctors 600 years later |
| algebra | a branch of mathematics |
| astrolabe | an old Greek compass of sorts that Muslim scholars perfected |
| arabesque | a flowing, lacy ornament often intertwined with leafy vines |
| calligraphy | a beautiful type of handwriting |
| minarets | tall, slender towers with balconies in mosques, where the muezzin called Muslims to prayer |
| muezzin | a Muslim caller to prayer |
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