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Mecca
The holiest city of Islam
Othman
4th caliph
Bedouin
Arabic speaking
Allah
Arabic word for God
Medina
1st city to convert
Calligraphy
Beautiful, elegant handwriting
Convulsions
An aggressive shaking of the body
Ramadan
Fast for 1 month
Allahu akbar
Muslim call to prayer
Muhammad
Founder of Islam
Abu Talib
Muhammad's uncle who raised him
Hagar
One of Abraham's wives
Shariah
Religious laws for Muslims
Sura
Sermon of the Koran
Jihad
Muslim holy war spiritual and physical
Cataract
A disease of the eye that makes a person partly blind
Hegira
Most important date in the Islamic calendar
Ishmael
Son of Abraham, later leads the tribe of Muhammad
Cauterize
To stop bleeding usually heat or chemicals
Charles Martel
Ruler of all the Germanic franks
Shiite
A branch tribe that believed only a member of Muhammad's family could be caliph
Abu Bakr
1st caliph of the prophet
Umayyads
The 1st dynasty
Abbasid
2nd dynasty
Koran
Sacred book of Islam