Lindsay glodme 2.1 Flashcards

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Arab

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a member of the people who are originally from the Arabian Peninsula and who now live mostly in the Middle East and northern Africa

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Mecca

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The most sacred city in all Islam, home to the Kaaba, home of Muhammad.

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Kaaba

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The ancient shrine in Mecca that Muhammad cleansed of polytheism and rededicated to Allah - the center of Islamic practice worldwide

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Muhammad

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Prophet of Islam; last prophet; created Islam

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Allah

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The Arabic word for God

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Quran

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For Muslims, this book contains the direct words of God as revealed to Muhammad - this word means “recitation”

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Hadith

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Stories of the life of Muhammad - these are a second source of religious authority along with the Quran - this word means “story”

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Hijra

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Muhammad’s flight from Mecca where he was rejected to Medina where he was much more successful

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Medina

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Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina and this is where he was successful in creating Islam and the ummah; political and military leader against Meccans

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Ummah

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Arabic word meaning nation or community, original community of Muhammad

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Sunnah

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Means “tradition” and refers to the life and ways of the prophet

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Sufism

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Islamic mysticism - a tradition involving the use of poetry, music, and dance used to achieve direct experience of the divine.

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Ijtihad

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The use of human reason in deriving Islamic law

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Shari’ah

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Islamic law

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Haram

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An act that is forbidden, to do it ever would be a sin

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Makruh

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An act that is bad if done repeatedly or habitually

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Mubah

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An act that is neither good nor bad - doing this or not doesn’t matter

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Mustahabb

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An act that is good but not required

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Wajib

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An act that is required; to not do it is a sin

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Ulama

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A class of trained Islamic scholars - these scholars read and interpret the Quran and so are very important

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Caliph

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This term means “successor” and refers to the leaders of the ummah after Muhammad whose power was mostly political - these were the leaders of the Sunni branch of Islam

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Rashidun caliphs

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Rightly-guided caliphs

Abu Bakr - 1st Caliph
Umar - 2nd caliph
Uthman - 3rd caliph
Ali

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Mu’awiya

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5th caliph, 1st Caliph of Umayyad dynasty, gov of Syria. Took over from Ali

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Yezid

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6th caliph after Mu’awiya

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Hassan

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2nd Imam

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Hussein

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3rd Imam. Killed by Yezid in battle of k

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Battle of Karbala

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Between Yezid and Hassan; Sunni-Shia split

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Shi’a

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Smaller branch than Sunni, name comes from being followers or partisans of Ali, they believe Imams are the correct leaders of the Ummah

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Sunni

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The largest branch of Islam, taking its name from the tradition of the prophet

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5 pillars of Islam

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1) Shahada - Proclamation of faith
2) Salat - pray 5x day
3) Sawm - Fasting, from dawn till dusk during month of Ramadan
4) Hajj - pilgrimage to Mecca
5) Zakat - alms, charity

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Umayyad caliphate

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The first dynasty of caliphs including Muawiya and Yezid

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Abbasid caliphate

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Dynasty after Umayyad; seen as Golden Age

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Ottoman Empire

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Sunni Islamic state founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in Anatolia. Sultanate transformed into empire and a claimante to a caliphate

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Sultan

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Muslim sovereign

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Millet System

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Indirect rule: Ottoman system that allowed local ethnic groups in their empire to control themselves as long as their leaders lived in Istanbul. Helped Sultan maintain loyalty

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Devshirme System

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Ottoman system for impressing Christian boys into the Ottoman military as Janissaries - converting them to Islam and banning them from marrying; human taxation

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Janissaries

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Foot soldiers

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Timar System

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Sultan gives large amounts of land to feudal lords/nobles who in return give cavalry to Sultan. “Tax Farming”

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Tanzimat

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Means “restructuring” or “reorganization” - a period of quasi-liberal reform in the 19th century Ottoman Empire - a form of response to rising European dominance

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Isma’il the Magnificent

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This Khedive of Egypt sought to Europeanize his country and this push for development created a huge debt to and dependency on Europe and cause a violent backlash against him - he lost the Suez to the UK

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Islamism

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A call to political order based on traditional Islamic forms including obedience to the Caliph. This suggests a tight bond between political forms and traditional Islamic practice.

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Abdul Hamid

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Absolutist Sultan-Caliph of the late Ottoman Empire - he wanted to modernize his economy and technology but called on Islamism and total central power to justify his power

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Wahhabi movement

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A 19th century fundamentalist movement to recapture the literal lifestyle and forms of the original ummah - a kind of Islamic puritainism - they focus on tawhid and reject bid’ah

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Religious Zionism

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Need to implement Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, Aliyah and settlement of the Land

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Political Zionism

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Establishing home for Jews in Palestine

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Husayn-McMahon Correspondence

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Series of letters between Husayn bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sir Henry McMahon and Brit High Comm of Egypt concerns of lands under Ottoman empire. Husayn wanted to create a Pan-Arab state. British and Arabs make promises to each other. Son Faysal wants all of Arabian peninsula. Proclaims himself king of Damascus and gets Arab Kingdom

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Sykes-Picot Agreement

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Secret agreement btwn France and Britain in which they divided up Middle East. Divided up Arab provinces of Ottoman Empire that would be future controlled territory.

Promises overlap. France -> Syria, Britain ->Iraq and Jordan. Jerusalem divided. Separate Palestine

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Balfour Declaration

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Letter that confirmed British promise for support of a Jewish homeland. Was included in Sevre treaty and the Palestine Mandate

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Arab Revolt

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Revolt initiated by Sherif Hussein bin Ali with aim to secure independence from Ottoman Turks and create a single unified Arab nation from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. Arab nationalist sentiment

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Sharif Husayn ibn Ali

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Son of Ali and Fatimah and younger brother of Hasan. Killed by Yezid in Battle of Karbala in 680

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Faysal ibn Husayn (Iraq)

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Brother of Abdullah and son of Hussein ibn Ali, he was made king of Iraq by the British.

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Abdullah ibn Husayn (Jordan)

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Brother of Faysal, son of Hussein ibn Ali, he was made king of Jordan by the British after WWI

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Treaty of Sèvres

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WWI Peace treaty that ended the Ottoman Empire

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Treaty of Lausanne

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WWI Peace treaty that ended conflict btwn Ottoman Empire and UK, France etc. b/c Sevres didn’t work because it was rejected by the Turkish national movement who fought to win back land