The Young Abassid Caliph
al-Mu'tasim
What did the Five Pillars of Islam serve as?
A metaphor
Associates anything with God
Shirk
Regarded as Muhammad's sole miracle
The Quran
Developed by the Ulama as the basis for the judgment of all actions in Islam as good or bad
Shariah Law
The group called "learned men of God"
Ulama
The two types of prayers
Du'a and Salat
The group of Muslims who claimed there can be nothing apart of God
Sufis
The original language the Quran must be read in
Arabic
The number of categories in Shariah Law
Five
Led the siege on Baghdad
Al-Ma'mun
Considered to be the supreme communal event in Islam
Hajj
Caliphs who used the argument that God determined their position in order to give authority
Ummayad
The spiritual power of God's actual speech
Baraka
What is one of the categories of behavior in the Shariah law?
Obligatory action; rewarded or punished based on the performance
Meritorious action- rewarded for performance but neglect is not punished
Actions that tre neutral and indifferent
Reprehensible actions
Forbidden and punished
These members believed the Quran is a created thing
Rationalists
The pillar that reminds Muslims of their social and economic responsibility to the Ummah
Zakat
Group that expanded the view that humanity was perfectly free to act in either goodness or evil.
Rationalists
The technical science of Quranic recitation
Tajwid
The moral provisions of the Shariah are made concrete through this discipline
Fiqh