a list of islamic terms and their definitions. 9th grade.
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | the shrine in the center of Mecca. before Muhammad took it over and made it an Islamic shrine, it was pagan.
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| Quraysh | show 🗑
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| show | pre-Islamic tribal people. they were pagan. they held loyalty to their clan highly.
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| Asabiyya | show 🗑
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| show | mountainous section of northern arabia. contained Mecca and Medina.
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| Allah | show 🗑
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| show | Muhammad's paternal uncle. "reared" him to manhood. Protected him against Quaresh. dies in the Year of Sorrow
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| show | a widow for whom Muhammad worked. He married her. she was influential on his life. he stayed faithful to her until she died. she was a jew. she was Islam's first female convert.
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| show | Muhammad's younger cousin/son in law. he is important in Islam's rise. 4th caliph. His son was the one who caused the Sunni-Shi'ite split.
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| show | a slave Muhammad frees. one of the first converts.
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| show | first caliph. important in Islam's rise because he spreads it to the North: Byzantine and Persia. he was close to Muhammad when he was alive. he was gentle, wise, pious, humble. father of A'isha, Muhammad's favorite wife at the time of his death.
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| show | migration of Muslims from Mecca to Medina (then Yathrib) in 622 AD. beginning of Muslim calendar.
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| show | an abyssinian convert; the first crier who summons Muslims to pray. he is important for Islam b/c he's the start of Muezzin (?)
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| show | travels to worship deities, old pagan custom. in Islam, it is the pilgrimage to the Kaaba that is required of all Muslims for whom it is feasible. must be done once in lifetime.
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| show | "Mountain of light" small mountain outside of Mecca where Muhammad would go to meditate-recieved enlightenment/revelation there.
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| show | Muhammad's HOLY HOLY text. each word of the Koran is spoken through Muhammad's lips, as opposed to various prophets (Tanakh, Bible). however, Muslims believe that every word in it, Muhammad recieved directly from Allah.
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| show | "the immigrants"--Muslims who migrated to Medina to escape religious persecution in Mecca
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| fatiha | show 🗑
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| paraclete | show 🗑
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| show | the first sentence chanted in the ear of a Muslim infant. It says that there is only one god, Allah, and that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. it talks about UNITY.
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| shirk | show 🗑
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| kufr | show 🗑
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| show | immaterial beings of fire. there are good and bad jinn. like humans, they are accountable for their deeds on earth. Satan was originally a jinn.
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| show | the worldwide Muslim community (today about 1.2 billion).
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| ansar | show 🗑
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| sharia | show 🗑
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| show | scholars who interpret the Koran and Sunnah
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| fatwa | show 🗑
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| WHAT IS HAJJ? | show 🗑
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