Post-Classical Flashcards
1
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Justinian Code
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Corpus iruis civilis
2
Q
Prince of Kiev
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Vladimir
3
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St. Basil of Caesarea
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mysiticism
4
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Muhammad’s departure from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, prompted by the opposition of the merchants of Mecca and marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community.
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Hejira
5
Q
Qadis
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Islamic judge
6
Q
educated religious elite writing sharia law
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ulama
7
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er capita yearly taxation historically levied in the form of financial charge on permanent non-Muslim subjects (dhimmi) of a state governed by Islamic law.
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jizya
8
Q
nomadic Arab of the desert
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bedouins
9
Q
‘A’isha al-Ba’uniyya
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Sufi poet
10
Q
House of Wisdom started by
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Harun al Rashid
11
Q
Al Rumi
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poet
12
Q
Al Razi
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Medicine
13
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the Canon
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Ibn Sina
14
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Al Khwarizmi
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algebra
15
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kowtow
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act of tertiary states
