vocabulary quiz 1 Flashcards
dhimmi
One of the ahL al-dhimma, the “people of the covenant of protection,” i.e., non-muslims living under the protection of muslim regimes
Sura
A chapter of the koran
Hijira
The “Flight” of Muhammad and his companions from Mecca to Yathrib/ Medina, which event marks the founding of the first Muslim community and the start of the Muslim calendar
Da’wa
A call or summoning used to refer to the missionary activity of various religio-political movements
fiqh
the science of Islamic jurisprudence
Jizya
A head tax or poll, tax, to which non-Muslims living under Muslim rule, are normally subject.
Jihad
Struggle, that is, in the path of God, including a particular form of that struggle, “holy war”
ijtihad
literally “exertion,” used by the jurists to refer to the process of determining valid legal judgments from the various sources of the law, and thus the opposite of taqlid.
Sunna
The normative, practice of the prophet and his companions, as known through hadith
Ka’Ba
The pre-Islamic shrine at Mecca, which Muslim tradition associates with Abraham
hajj
The Muslim pilgrimage to holy sites in and around Mecca
sira
A biographical account of the prophet’s life
jahilyya
the “time of ignorance” before the coming of Islam
bid’a
innovation, the opposite of sunna
fatwa
a legal opinion issued by a competent jurist
