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a member of an elite group of Turkish soldiers organized in the 14th century
What is Janissary?
100
the title for ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire
What is sultan?
100
The earliest surviving Islamic monument
What is the Dome of the Rock?
100
The art of beautiful handwriting
What is calligraphy?
200
succesor or deputy to Muhammed as political and religious leader of the Muslims.
What is a caliph?
200
Hereditary monarch of Iran
What is shah?
200
the founder of Islam
Who is Muhammed?
200
striving or armed conflict against non believers
What is jihad?
300
a place of worship for the followers of Islam
What is a mosque?
300
body of Islamic law that includes the interpretation of the quran and applies to daily Islamic life
What is Sharia?
300
a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water
What is a nomad?
300
a pilgrimage to Mecca performed as a duty by Muslims
What is a Hajj
300
The two major branches of Islam
What are Sunni and Shia
400
the holy book of Islam
What is the Quran?
400
a government controlled by religious leaders
What is a theocracy?
400
Muhammed's migration from Mecca to Yathrib
What is Hijrah?
400
a center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800's
What is the House of Wisdom?
400
an islamic model for living based on the life and teachings of Muhammad
What is Sunna?
500
a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism
What is Sikhism?
500
the Islamic word for God
What is Allah?
500
money given to the poor
What are alms?
500
a monotheistic religion that devedloped in Arabia in te 17th Century
What is Islam?
500
a member of a Muslim dynasty that traced its ancestry to Muhammed's daughter
What is Fatimid?