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Chapter 6
Chapter 6 cont.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 cont.
Chapter 8
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Site of Ka’ba and original home to Muhammad, this city is the location in which Muslims are to make a Pilgrimage once in their life according to Islam.
What is Mecca?
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The founder of the Islamic Religion we know today, and believed he received visions from Allah.
Who is the Prophet Muhammad?
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This Dynasty won over control of the Muslim Empire from the Umayyads.
What is the Abbasid Dynasty?
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Most famous Abbasid Caliph; renowned for sumptuous and costly living; dependent of Persian advisors for early reign; and his death led to Civil War over who should take his place.
Who is Harun al-Rashid?
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These were societies that were organized around kinship or other forms of obligation lacking the concentration of political power and authority. Found spread throughout Africa allowing the way for Islamic beliefs to be spread.
What were stateless societies?
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The Political and Religious Successor of Muhammad.
What is Caliph?
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These are the principles that must be accepted and followed by all believers of the Islamic Religion.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
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This is the term used to describe the act of women wearing veils because they were seen as a temptation to men; so they must hide themselves.
What is Veiling?
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These missions or mini wars to save the Holy land allowed Western Technology to filter into the Muslim world.
What are the Crusades?
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This port city was located just off the flood plain on the great bend of the Niger River. This was a port City of Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
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One of Muhammad’s followers whom was backed by the Shi’a.
Who is Ali?
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This group was backed by the Umayyads; they can also be considered the opposite of Shi’a belief.
Who are the Sunnis?
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United the tribes of the Mongols; he was able to see most of northern China taken over but died before the Mongol Empire took the Islamic World.
Who is Chinggis Khan?
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The group of Turkic slaves who established a dynasty in Egypt and defeated the Mongols, halting their advance.
Who are the Mamluks?
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This ruler extended the boundaries of the Songhay Empire; He was the Islamic ruler in the mid-16th century.
Who is Muhammad the Great?
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First wife of Muhammad, who he had worked for as a Trader.
Who is Khadijah?
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Before the emergence of Islam, which was able to bring about unification to the Arab world, these dominated the regions. Usually were set near a water source and there was also much rivalry between them.
What are Clans?
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The Muslim leader who re-conquered most of the crusader outposts for Islam.
Who is Saladin?
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Orthodox religious scholars within Islam who pressed for a more conservative and restrictive theology; they increasingly opposed non-Islamic ideas and scientific thinking.
Who are the Ulama?
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This is the successor state to Mali; it was formed under the Berber dynasty.
What is Songhay?
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DAILY DOUBLE!!! Non-Arab converts to Islam.
Who are Mawali?
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The place at which Ali’s son Husayn was killed in 680.
What is Karbala?
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Written by Firdawsi in the late 10th Century and early 11th Century; this book relates history of Persia from creation to the Islamic Conquest.
What is the Shah-Nama?
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These people are mystics within Islam, who were responsible for the expansion of Islam into Southeast Asia and other regions.
What are Sufis?
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This is the term used to describe the study of population.
What is Demography?