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The religious belief in which spirits reside in ordinary objects

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Animism

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Muhammad’s successor, who ordered the compilation of the Qu’ran

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Abu Bakr

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The holy shrine to Allah in the Ka’ba

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The black stone

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The leader of the Islamic empire

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The caliph

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Confession of faith, prayer, fasting, alms, hajj

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The five pillars of faith

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A time when there is: reliable surpluses, specialized occupations, large cities, lots of trade, prosperity, science, art

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A “golden age”

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A collection of stories and sayings of Muhammad

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The Hadith

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A group of concubines looked after by a enuch

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A harem

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Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to medina in 622

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Hijrah

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Means “struggle”. Some believe that it is the sixth pillar of faith, and that it either means your own personal struggle, or the struggle to wipe out all other non-Muslim people

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Jihad

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Spirits that early bedouins believed inhabited things

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Jinns

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The huge shrine with shrines to many gods in it(in mecca)

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The Ka’ba

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The urban universities that translated and preserved writings of the Greeks and Indians

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Madrasas

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Special prayer towers on the mosques

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Minaret

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A place of prayer for Muslims

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Mosque

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The “prophet” who was born wealthy in Mecca, orphaned at 6, lived with grandpa, married his (merchant) boss, and had vision at age 40

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Muhammad

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The journey that Muhammad supposedly made in 621, in which he travels to Jerusalem to pray with other prophets, after which we ascends to heaven to speak with Allah, who gives him instructions about how the faithful should live

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“The night journey”

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Jews and Christians, called dhimmi, who were treated better than non-Muslims, but worse than Muslims

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“People of the book”

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The holy book of the Muslims, thought of as the word of god(written by 650)

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The Qu’ran

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The idea that Muhammad was the last of the prophets

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Seal of the prophets

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The Muslim law, decided by the ulama by the Hadith and the Quran

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Shari’a

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The sect of Islam that believes that only direct descendants of muhammad(people in his clan) could be caliph

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Shi’ites

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The people believe that everyone could be caliph

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Sunni

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The sect of Islam that believes in Allah being the one god, but does not interpret Muhammad’s words literally

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Suffis

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Means: “chief/war dude”

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Sultan

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A book of literature about a clever bride who doesn’t want to be killed so she tells her husband(the King) stories for 1001 nights

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1001 Arabian nights

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The religious scholars who interpreted the Hadith and Quran to make the shari’a

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Ulama

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The collective of Islam

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Umma

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Dar al-Islam

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The area touched by islam(PCE unifying force)

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A pilgrimage to Mecca

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Hajj

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When was Muhammad born?

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570 CE

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Who mediated Muhammad’s vision?

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The angel Gabriel

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Muhammad was banned from Mecca…

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in 622, because the Quarysh ere scared of him. In 628 they allowed him into the ka’ba to worship, and in 629 he came back with tons of followers and destroyed all idols inside of it except for the black stone

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When was the Umayyad Dynasty?

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661-750 CE

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When was the Abbasid Dynasty?

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750-1258. They fell when they began to depend heavily on the Seljuk Turks for military might, and named one of them “sultan”. Everyone argued over the throne until Mongol invasion in 1258.

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What special kind of boat did the Abbasids use for trade?

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Dhows, with lateen sails

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