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The word islam means
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submission
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a muslim is one who
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submits to god
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islam is the only religion that has ever threatened the existence of
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christianity
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the largest islamic country is
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Asia and indonesia
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the koran refers to jews and christians as people of the book which is the
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the holy bible
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the arabs race their lineage to abraham through his son
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ishmael
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a temple at site of the sacred well
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the kaaba
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the city that grew around the kaaba
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mecca
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muhammad travelled with his uncle, learning the profession of the
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caravan
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the angel who appeared to muhammad and commanded him to recite was
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gabriel
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the revelation of the koran is the
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central miracle of islam
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to convert to islam, one must only
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say the five pillars of islam sincerely
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prayers themselves are always spoken in
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arabic
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the journey to medina was so important that it marks the year zero in the
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islamic lunar calendar
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in yathrib, muhammad set up the first planned community in islam, called the
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ummah
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everywhere they went the muslims established a civilization built upon the values of the
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five pillars of islam
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ramadan is the month that muslims believe the koran was
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revealed to muhammad
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the sunni believe that the leader of the muslim community should me
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elected
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the shia believe that the leaders should be
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descended from muhammad
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at the center of the abased empire was a city legendary for its beauty called
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baghdad
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the third holiest city in islam is
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jerusalem
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islam's greatest threat came from the
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mongolian horsemen of the east
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to circumambulate around the kaaba means that
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god is the center axis of our lives
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at mina, the throwing of the seven tiny stones at a granite pillar symbolizes
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the stoning of the devil and rejection of sin
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the west would call the muslims who settled in spain
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moores
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in india the muslim dynasty that ruled over one fifth of the world's population was called the
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moghul empire
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in 1453 the ottomans captured constantinople and renamed it
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istanbul
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at the top of the ottoman bureaucratic pyramid was the
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sultan
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the women of the sultan's extended family were called the
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harab
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muslim men are permitted to marry more that one wife on the condition
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that all wives are treated fairly and equally
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to the average westerner the traditional head covering worn b muslim women the hajib has become a symbol of
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opression
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the specific choice of women's clothing reflects
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CULTURAL PREFERENCES NOT THE EDICTS OF THE LAW
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the ottomans could not keep pace with the emerging western european powers primarily because of the coming of th
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industrial revolution
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the primary cause of the direct foreign rule of many muslim nations was
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wwi
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one of the most effective opposition groups was the
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muslim brotherhood
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one of the most important heritages of imperialism in the middle east is the ideas and skills in having
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central authoritarian government
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the groups resisting these new forms of rule became known as
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islamists
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one particularly influential and puritanical islamic movement is
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wahabism
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the greater jihad is the struggle against
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base desires
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the lesser jihad is the struggle against
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an enemy
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the black muslim movement also known as the
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nation of islam
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the national spokesperson for the nation of islam was
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malcolm x
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the iranian revolution of 1979 was also a response to
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modernity
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all that islam teaches can be reduced to
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god, revelation, and judgement
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the purpose of life is to
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attain peace in the afterlife
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the saddest thing that has happened to islam in the contemporary age is the
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arab israeli conflict
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