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22 Cards in this Set
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Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
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Mihrab from Isfahan |
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Hajj |
Annual Pilgrimage to Mecca |
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Medina |
City of Muhammad's Birth in Saudi Arabia Second most holiest city in Islam |
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Ramadan |
Period of religious fasting, introspection, and prayer. |
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Kufic calligraphy |
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Kufa |
The New Capital of Government than from Medina Decided so by Ali |
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Sahn |
Courtyard in a Mosque |
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Maqsura |
Praying niche in a Mosque |
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Iman |
One who leads prayers and NOT the model :^) |
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Hypostyle mosque |
a mosque that is held so by evenly placed rows of columns throughout the room creating a hypostyle hall |
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Qibla wall |
The face that is in the direction of Mecca for the audience Usually the most decorated wall |
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Mihrab |
The niche in the Qibla wall that marks the Qibla wall. Usually decorated |
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Minbar |
The high standing podium from which the Iman gives their sermon |
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Minaret |
The tall standing tower outside of the mosque. From where the call to prayer was made. Some Minarets are no longer used for the original function and more or less mark the existence of the mosque in a landscape. Similar to a church bell tower. |
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Muezzin |
man who makes the call to prayer from the minaret |
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Adhan |
The call to prayer itself |
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Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq |
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Minaret, Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba (exterior) |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba (interior hypostyle hall) |
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Sultan Muhammad, Court of Gayumars |
