Muslims Flashcards
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
Sacred text of Islam
Quran
Muslim house of worship (masjids)
Mosques
Muslim Mystics, sought communication with God through meditation
Sufi
Religion blending Hindu and Islam
Sikhism
Muslim ruler
Sultan
Elite force of the ottoman army
Janizaries
A body of law that includes interpretations of the Quran
Sharia
Slender towers of the mosques
Minerat
Dynasty that tried to create empire based on the equality of Muslims; Muslim civilization flourished; discrimination against non Arab Muslims ended; moved capital from Damascus to Baghdad
Abbasids
Who said “if you worship Muhammad, Muhammad is dead. If you worship God, God is alive”
Abu Bakr
Dynasty of Sunni caliphs that ruled Muslim empire; directed spectacular conquests that tended Arab from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Indus Valley river in east
Aumayyads
