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Islamic iberia Flashcards

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Caliphate

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political-religious state. an area where religious Muslims lived under the leadership of a caliph

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Pact of Umar

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a template for peace with the Christians of syria

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Umayyad Empire

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second caliphate established after death of Muhammad

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Jizya

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Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within a Muslim empire

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Dhimmi

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  • aka protected persons
  • state obliged under sharia to protect life, property, religious freedom if loyal and paid the jizya tax
  • appled to jews, christians, sabiand and later zoroastrians, sikhs, hindus, jains, buddists
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Caliph al-Walid I

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patron of the Great Mosque of Damascus appointed the son of a freed slave

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Minaret

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a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.

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Mihrab

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a niche in the wall of a mosque, at the point nearest to Mecca, toward which the congregation faces to pray.

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Qibla

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the direction of the Kaaba (the sacred building at Mecca), to which Muslims turn at prayer.

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Corinithian columns

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decorative, ball-shaped capital with volutes, two rows of acanthus leaves and an elaborate cornice

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Tariq ibn Ziyad

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  • Amazigh commander
  • launched a campaign on Iberia in 711 with a majority Amazigh army
  • defeated Roderic
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Roderic

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last king of the Visigothic kingdom

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Abd al-Aziz

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  • Arab general
  • first Umayyad Governor of al-Andalus
  • son of Musa
  • conquered Hispalis/Ispala
  • negotiated the Treaty of Tumir
  • married the widow of the Roderic
  • assassinated by court politics
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Umayyad province of al-Andalus

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  • plagued by chaos
  • most of the Iberian peninsula became part of the expanding Umayyad Empire
  • include Huvela, Cadiz, Sevilla, Malaga, Cordoba, Jaen, Granada, and Almeria
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Ispal

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  • original name of the city of Seville
  • meaning flat land
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Hispalis

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  • ancient name of Seville
  • developed into one of the great market and industrial centers of Hispania
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Julia Romula

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  • aka Seville
  • by Julius Ceaser, who made it an official Roman colony
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Treaty of Tudmir

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  • provided the local Christian population with freedom to continue practicing their faith, in exchange for loyalty to ruling Muslims and payment of yearly taxes
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Abd al-Rahman I

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  • grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
  • established the Emirate of Cordoba independent of the Abbasid Caliphate making Baghdad its capital
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al-wadi al-kabir

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‘big river/water’ referred to this by the Arabs

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Abbasids

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  • member of the Abbasid dynasty
    -ruled Baghdad
  • consolidated Islamic rule and cultivated great intellectual and cultural developments in Middle East
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Emirate of Cordoba

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756-929 CE, medieval Islamic kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula

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Musa ibn Nusayr

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  • Umayyad governor and Arab general under Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I
  • ruled over Muslim provinces Africa
  • initiated the invasion of Spain
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Egilona

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  • Visigothic noblewoman, last known Queen
  • first wife of Roderic, then Abd-al aziz
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Abd al-Rahman III

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  • cultural patron
  • expanded the Mosque of Cordoba and bult the palace city of Madinat al-Zahra
  • encouraged learning and scholarship
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3 Caliphates

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Islamic world organized into the Cordoba Caliphate of Iberia, Fatimids of N. Africa, and Abbasids of W. Asia

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Abbasid knowledge revolution

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  • initiated a major intellectual and technological revolution founded upon uniting ancient translation movements and made Arabic a major language of science and culture
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Multi-foil Arch

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  • developed by the Umayyads
  • architects experimented with both hollow/concave lobes and protruding/convex lobes in the relieving arches above the doors
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Al-Hakam II

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  • son of Abd al Rahman III
  • secured peace wiht the Catholic Kingdoms of nothern Iberia
  • made use of stability to develop agriculture through construction of irrigation works
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Al-Mansur (Almanzor)

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  • Abbasid ruler
  • Overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate
  • Established Baghdad as the capital
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Apse

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A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church

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