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28 Cards in this Set
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nomad |
a person who moves from place to place rather than settling permanently |
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oasis |
a fertile area in the midst os a desert |
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clan |
a group of people related by blood or marriage |
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allah |
god in the islamic religion |
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monotheism |
a belief in one god |
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pilgrimage |
a journey to a sacred place or shrine |
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islam |
a monotheistic religion based on teachings of muhammad |
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muslim |
a person who follows the religion of islam,accepting allah as the only god |
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hijrah |
the move of muhammad and his followers from mecca to the city of yathrib in A.D622 |
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qur'an |
the muslim holy book,consisting of relegations from allah that were collected by muhammad's followers after his death |
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sunnah |
muhammad's words and deeds ,which serve muslims as a guide for proper living |
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mosque |
a building for muslim worship to design to face the city of mecca |
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caliph |
a ruler of the muslim community,viewed as a successor of muhammad |
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shi'a |
a muslim group that resisted the umayyad rule believing that the caliph should be a relative prophet of muhammad |
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sunni |
a member of the muslim group that accepted the rule of the elected caliphs and did not resist the umayyads |
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iberian peninsula |
the southwestern tip of europe where the modern nations of spain and potugual are located |
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bureaucracy |
a system of departments and agencies that carry out the work of a government |
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abd al-malik |
a muslim ruler who became caliph in A.D. 685 and made arabic the official language of government in all muslim lands |
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standing army |
a fighting force that is maintained in times of peace as well as times of war |
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baghdad |
a city located in what is now iraq that was the capitol of the abbasid empire |
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golden age |
a period in which a society or culture is at its peak |
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calligraphy |
the art of fine handwriting |
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omar khayyam |
a persian born muslim poet who usually wrote in quatrain form and was also a great mathematician |
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faction |
a small group whose interests run counter to those of a larger group of which that are part |
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al-andalus |
the area of spain under muslim control between the A.D 700s and 1462 |
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cordoba |
the capital of al-andulus |
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abd al-rahman III |
the eighth emir of al-andulus during whose reign al-andulus reached the height of its power |
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mercenary |
a soldier who is paid to fight |
