A Prophet and His World
The Expansion of Islam
Economy and Society of the Early Islamic World
Islamic Values and Cultural Exchanges
Random Vocabs
100
prophet who was born to a Mecca merchant family
Who is Muhammad?
100
head of the state, chief judge, religious leader, military commander
What is caliph?
100
the first of Muhammad's four wives who managed a successful commercial business
Who is Khadija?
100
Islamic mystics, the most effective missionaries
What is Sufis?
100
god
What is Allah?
200
holy book of Islam, the recitation
What is the Quran?
200
the sect originally supported Ali and descendents as caliph
What is the Shia?
200
most common type of traveling in overland trade
What is camel caravan?
200
the most important Indian influence in the Islamic world
What are Hindi numerals/Arabic numerals?
200
migration
What is hijra?
300
cohesive community of Muslims in Medina
What is umma?
300
people withreligious knowledge and judges
What are ulama and qadis?
300
a new industry in urban area
What is paper manufacture?
300
aka The Thousand and One Nights
What is The Arabian Nights?
300
term for educational institution
What is madrasas?
400
Islamic law inspired by Quran
What is sharia?
400
ruled at the high point of Abassid dynasty
Who is Harun al-Rashid?
400
the kingdom that Al-Andalus established, capital city in Cordoba
What is Islamic Spain?
400
qadi of Seville in the caliphate of Cordoba who followed Aristotle in seeking to ariticulate a purely rational understanding of the world
Who is Ibn Rushd?
400
traditionalists, opposite of the Shia
What is Sunnis?
500
works of saying and deeds of Muhammad
What is hadith?
500
capital city of the Umayyad dynasty in Syria
What is Damascus?
500
letters of credit, functioned as bank checks
What is sakk?
500
Persian theologian who believed that human reason was too frail and confusing
Who is Al-Ghazali?
500
quatrains by Omar Khayyam
What is Rubaiyat?
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