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28 Cards in this Set
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Mu'awiya
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Moved Arab capital to Damascus
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Egypt
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Area controlled by Fatimid dynasty
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Hussein
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Second son of Ali
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Hijira
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Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina
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Umayyad Dynasty
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Dynasty founded by Mu'awiya and backed by the Suni
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Othman
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Ordered official writing of the official Koran
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Omar
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Established National Registry
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Spain
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Country where the Alhambra Palace is located
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Yarum
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Battle where the Byzantines are defeated
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Manzikert
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Battle won by the Seljuqs in 1071
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Rubaiyat
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Book of famous Muslim poems
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Abbasids
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Overthrows Suni and Shiites after civil war
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Abd ar-Rahman
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Prince who escaped onslaught and founds the Ummayyad kingdom of Cordoba
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Cordoba
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Greatest intellectual center of Europe
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Abbassid dynasty
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Dynasty when height of Muslim power
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Harun al Rashid
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Ruler whose reign set the setting for 1,001 Nights
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Al-Mamun
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Ruler when moslem science and knowledge flourished, created library and University of Baghdad
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Samanids
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A local Mamluk family who took control from the Abbasids
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Ghaznavids
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Overthrew the Samanids in 977, carried Islam into India
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Fatimid Dynasty
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Took control of Egypt and founded Cairo, rulers claimed to be descendants of Ali and Fatima (Shiite Muslims)
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Seljuq Turks
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Turks who captured Baghdad who later defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert
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Sultan
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Means "master" for the turks
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Al-Razi
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Great Physician
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Avicenna (Ibn-Sina)
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Greatest authority of medicine and wrote Canon of Medicine
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Arabesques
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Designs on domes with flowers and patterns
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Islamic Caligraphy
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Use of lines to make shapes or pictures
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Muezzin
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Calls people to come to pray at Mosque from Minaret
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Minaret
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Tower that the Muezzin calls from to pray
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