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vocab chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allh | God(an arabic word mainley in Islam) |
| Hijrah | Muhammad migration from mecca to yathrib |
| Mosque | An Islamic place of worship |
| shari'a | A body of law governing the lives of muslims |
| House of Wisdom | A center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800's |
| Sufi | A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means |
| Muhammad | Born into the clan of a powerful Meccan family |
| Caliph | A supreme political and religous leader in muslim government |
| Hajj | A privilege of Mecca , performed as a duty by Muslims |
| Umayyads | A dynasty that rules the Musslim Empire From AD 661 to 750 and later established a kingdom in Al-Andulus |
| Musslim | Follower of Islam |
| AL-Andalus | Muslim-rulled region in what is now Spain, established in the eight centrual AD |
| Qu'ran | The holy book of Islam |
| Islam | A monothesis releigion that develloped in Arabi in the seventh centuary AD |