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20 Cards in this Set
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What is a caliphate? |
An Islamic state |
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What is the Quran? |
Texts summating biblical texts or doctrinal statements, compiled by scholars, hudged and bureaucrats |
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What is the Sunna? |
Traditions about Prophet Muhammad, biographies became scripture |
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What is an Umma? |
A communities of Muslims |
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What is Jihad? |
Holy struggle |
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What is the Sacred Mecca and Medina? |
Sacred texts; Prophet Muhammad preaching God's word |
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What are the Five Religious Duties that form parts of larger Islamic law? |
1. Profession of Faith 2. Prayer 3. Fasting 4. Alms-giving 5. Pilgrimage to Mecca |
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What is Sharia Law? |
Legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islam |
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What is an Ulama? |
Religious scholar |
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________ makes up 90% of now Islamic population. |
Sunni |
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Sunni --> ____ _____ |
Abu Bakr |
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Shiit --> ____ ___ ___ ____ |
Ali ibn Abi Talib |
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What were the contributions of Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi? |
Algebra; letters to Arabic Numerals from 0 to 0, equations, decimals and fractions, physics of balances and weights |
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Describe the Afro-Eurasian Commercial World System of Trade |
-Validated by Quran -African Gold to Chinese Silks -Increasing exclusion of Europeans beyond Mediterranean |
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Which Turkish Caliphrate was made up of Turkish military slaves? |
Mamluks |
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Which Turkish Caliphrate was an anti-crusader realm? |
Salah al-Din-Yusuf Ibn Ayyub |
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Which Turkish Caliphrate made up Central Asia? |
Islamized Seljuk Turks |
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What made up to Ottoman Empire's economy? |
Firearms and Money |
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What are Janissaries? |
Salaried troops; Christian boys from 6 to 16 sent to Istanbul for conversion, military, and administrative services. |
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What caused the decline of the Ottoman Empire? |
1. Decentralization didn't work out. Rise of provincial power, decrease of central resources. 2. Increasing European pressure. 3. Local resistance and Insurrection (revolts) |
