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What is the importance of Mecca, pre Muhammad?

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Many gods and spirits were worshiped at ka’aba

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What is the importance of the Bedouin?

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Dessert movers, family , courage, warrior skills became part of Muslim life

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Pre Muhammad was polytheistic or monotheistic?

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They were polytheistic

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Muhammad’s life before the age of 40

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Muhammad was born into a rich tribe and was a caravan merchant and then he married a women named Khadijah

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Who spoke to Muhammad?

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Gabriel

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At did he tell him?

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He told him that he was the last prophet

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What was Muhammad’s job after the revelation

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He had to tell people about Allah and how he was the last prophet

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At does Islam mean

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It means submitting to Allah

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What does Muslim mean?

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Submitted to Allah

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How was Muhammad received?

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He was not welcomed and people didn’t think that he was credible

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What is Hijrah?

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The journey that Muhammad made to Yathrib

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What happened in Yathrib?

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He gained more believers and then they decided to march to Mecca

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How did Muhammad take Mecca?

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He marched into Mecca with 10,000 believers and the rulers surrendered

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What is the Qur’an

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It is the holy book of Muslim

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What are the 5 pillars?

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Pilgrimage, fasting, alms, prayer, faith

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What language is the Qur’an written in?

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Arabic

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What is Sunna?

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The perfect example of living (Allah, Muhammad)

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What does people of the book mean?

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It is Jews and Muslims

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What does Calif mean?

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It is a ruler that was a descendant of Muhammad

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Who were the rightly guided Calif’s?

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Aba-Bakr, umah, Ali, utman

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Why were they rightly guided?

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Because they were descendants of Muhammad

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How did they expand the empire?

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They moved to different countries because the people saw it as a sign from Allah and they fought for faith. Plus the people they were conjuring were welcoming because they would get to practice any religion they wished

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What triggered the civil war in Muslim faith

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Sh’Ai Sunni and Sufi

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Who were the Umayyad?

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They were a family of rulers that we’re wealthy

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What were the Umayyads greatest achievements?

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They moved the Capitol from Mecca to Damascus cause it was better for trade

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What does it mean to be Sufi?

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It means that you reject the luxurious life’s of the Umayyads

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Who were the Abbasids

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They were the longest and most powerful group to take control. They moved the Capitol to Bagdad and created a Berocracy and created skatts which were checks

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What is the Shari’a?

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This is the code of laws that regulates the moral conduct, daily life, no buissness and community life of the Muslims

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How wide is the Arabian peninsula?

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It is 1,300 miles wide and 1,200 miles long

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Who was the source of authority for Muslims?

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Allah

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What were the external conflicts?

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When Muhammad died groups stopped paying taxes, some stopped believing in Islamic values and some people started calling themselves prophets.

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What was the Abbasid capital?

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Bagdad

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What was the Fatima capital?

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Cairo

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What is the Fatimid?

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It is a group that is created by the Shi’a and they are beloved to be descendants of Fatimid Muhammad’s daughter

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What were the four social classes?

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  1. Born Muslims
  2. People who convert to Islam
  3. The protected people (people of the book)!
  4. The slaves who were usually prisoners of war
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What was the role of Islamic women

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They were supposed to look after the house and the maids and them children, they could go to school but they had to cover their faces when they went out. They had more rights then Indian and Chinese women

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What is the house of wisdom?

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This is a place in were people would go to share ideas and to get new ideas. It was like a library.

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Where is the house of wisdom?

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Baghdad

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What were the reasons to know math and science in the Islamic faith?

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  1. To know when rahmadon is
  2. To know when to pray
  3. Praying toward Mecca
  4. The month of hajj
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Who was Al- Rizi

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He was a great physician that wrote “Treatise on Smallpox and Measles, ”

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What is calligraphy?

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A beautiful way of writing

41
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Who created a book on optics?

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In Ali- haytham

42
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Who is al- khwarizmi

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A mathematician that read in Italian and made up algebra

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