Vocab
Vocab2
People
Dynasties/Cities
Islam
100
"struggle in the way of God"
jihad
100
Covered market in an Islamic city
Bazaar
100
Nomadic Arabs who lived in the desert rather than in towns
Bedouins
100
The Umayyad dynsasty was replaced by the
Abbasids
100
This is the name for the Muslim god
Allah
200
Pilgrimage to Mecca
hajj
200
Chief Islamic religious authority
caliph
200
Wrote the Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyan
200
The split into Sunni/Shiite was during which dynasty?
Umayyad
200
This man was Allah's prophet
Muhammad
300
Journey of Muhammad & his followers to Madinah
Hijrah
300
Prime minister that advised the caliph
Vizier
300
Muslim historian who wrote Muqaddimah (Introduction to History)
Ibn-Khaldun
300
The second largest European city after Constantinople (It's in Spain)
Cordoba
300
The 2 groups of Muslims today
Sunni & Shiite
400
"holder of power"
Sultan
400
A law code that provides believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives
shari'ah
400
Wrote a medical encyclopedia that stressed contagious nature of diseases
Ibn-Sina
400
Europeans rediscovered the works of Aristotle & other Greek philosophers because of which group of people
Muslims
400
1. Declaring Allah as god 2. Pray 5 times a day 3. Practice Ramadan 4. Give 2.5% to poor 5. Hajj
5 Pillars of Islam
500
Muslim crier who calls the faithful to prayer 5 times a day
muezzin
500
Most famous section of the Great Mosque of Samarra (This is the part where the crier calls the people to prayer)
Minaret
500
Muslim philosopher
Ibn-Rushd
500
Abbasids replaced which dynasty
Umayyad
500
Why did Muhammad meditate in the hills
He was bothered by the gap in rich & poor
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