Islam Flashcards

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Ataon

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Sharyar (ruler) married a different women every night and killed them in morning because they wouldn’t be faithful

Kept one girl because she proved her loyalty by telling him a story and not finishing the ending each night so he had kept her around to hear the ending

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Caliph

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Successor to prophet

Head of the Muslim church

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2 more famous stories that are included in the legend?

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Aladdin

Forty thieves

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People living in the middle of the peninsula versus the outside

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The middle because it is desert are nomadic tribal herders

On the coast the people are merchants and traders

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570 most people followed what religion?

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Polytheists- Pagans- hanifs

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Who were the hanifs?

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Rejected old gods and worshipped a single dirty

  • practiced solitary meditation
  • not Jewish or CHRISTIAN
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What great religious experience happened to Mohammad in 610?

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A vision of the angle jibreel who ordered him to teach the word of Allah, one God, to the Arabs

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Why was the new religion so unpopular in Mecca?

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The rulers feared that both the pilgrimage and the merchants livelihood would be threatened because the pilgrims came to wishful at he sacred ka’bah

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Where did Mohammad and his followers flee to and when?

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Medina in the year 622

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Hijrah

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10 year exile

Meaning flight or migration

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Ka’bah

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A stone building filled with many gods (shrine)

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Who led the Muslim kingdom after Muhammad died?

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Abu Bakr his old friend

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Where is Jabal Tariq?

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Guards the strait between Africa and Europe

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Significance of the Battle of Tours?

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To overrun Spain and France

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Sunni

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The way

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Qu’ron

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Holy book of Islam

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Mosque

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House of worship

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Bedoin

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Arabic herders lived as nomads

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Berbers

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North African people who converted to Islam

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Islam means?

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Submission to the will of Allah

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Abrahamic means?

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Belief in the same God as Jews and Christians
Strict monotheist
Origins in the Old Testament

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“People of the book”?

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Christians Jews and Muslims

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Ancient relationship between Jews and Arabs?

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Basically considered cousins; very closely related

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Year 1 A.H (622 CE) marks?

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Beginning of the Muslim calendar

When Muhammad flees Mecca from Medina

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Where is the "Dome of the Rock"?
Jerusalem Where Muhammad went to heaven
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5 pillars of Islam
1) monotheism 2) 5 prayers a day 3) giving to the poor 4) fasting during Ramadan 5) pilgrimage to Mecca
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Other Islamic practices
- up to four wives - no alcohol or pork - no gambling - sharia
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Largest Muslim countries in the world today?
Indonesia Pakistan India
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Spread of Islam?
Easy to learn and practice Portable Teaches equality Religious toleration
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Sharia
Body of Islamic laws to regulate daily living