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55 Cards in this Set
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Abu Bakr |
the father-in-law of Muhammad |
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'Ali |
Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin |
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Alluha akbar |
"God is most great" |
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al-Queda |
"the base" terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Laden |
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Ayatollah |
"sign or relfection of Allah" ; a person who is so holy, he carries the authority of a imam |
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caliph |
"successor" |
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dar al-Harb |
"house of war" |
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dar al-Islam |
"abode of Islam" |
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dervish |
"poor" |
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fatwa |
"religious edict" |
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five pillars |
shahadah "bearing witness", salat "daily prayer", zakat "almsgiving", sawm "fasting", and hajj "pilgramage to Mecca" |
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hadith |
short reports about what the prohpet said |
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hajj |
pilgramage to Mecca |
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hijra |
Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina |
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Hamas |
an armed movement committed to the liberation of Palestine |
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Husain |
'Ali's youngest son |
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Iblis |
evil angel that tries to lead people away from Allah |
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ijma' |
the concenous of the Muslim community |
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Imam |
spiritual leader |
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im' shallah |
"if Allah wills" |
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greater jihad |
the individual's personal struggle |
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lesser jihad |
the struggle of the Muslim community to defend itself against those who want to destroy the faith |
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jinn |
evil spirits |
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kaaba |
black cube in Mecca |
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Khadija |
wife and first convert of Muhammad |
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Mahdi |
"the guided one" |
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masjid |
"mosque" |
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Medina |
"city of the holy one" |
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muezzin |
"crier" for Muslim prayer |
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Muslim Brotherhood |
created to purify the Muslim |
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people of the book |
christian and jewish people in Jerusalem |
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qiyas |
Sunni; meaning to draw an analogy from the Qur'an |
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Ramadan |
the month where Muslims fast |
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Salah-al-Din |
led the Crusades against the Christians and re -took Jerusalem in 1187 |
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seal of the prophets |
Muhammad, the last prohpet of Allah on Earth |
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shahadah |
"bearing witness" to Allah |
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Sharia |
authoritative Muslim teaching on how to live |
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Shi'ite |
smaller of the two brances of Islam, followers of 'Ali |
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shirk |
unfogivable sin; worshiping things other than Allah |
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Sufi |
mystical movement in Islam |
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Sunni |
larger of the two movements of Islam, the way of tradition |
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surah |
chapter of the Qur'an |
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Taliban |
"students" ; siezed power in Afghanistan |
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ulama |
scholars |
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umma |
people or community |
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Wahhabi |
first movement by Sunnis to purify Islam by adhering to strict Qur'an teachings |
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570 CE |
Muhammad is born |
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610 CE |
recitation of the Qur'an begins |
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622 CE |
start of the "Hijra" |
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630 CE |
Mohammad return to Mecca |
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632 CE |
death of Mohammad, and birth of Sunni |
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650 CE |
written code of the Qur'an translated into 114 surahs |
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661-750 CE |
Umayyad Dynasty |
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680 CE |
Killing of 'Ali's son |
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750-1258 CE |
Abbasid Dynasty; Islam reaches its cultural peak |
