Islam Vocab

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caliph

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successor; a religious and political leader

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dhikr

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a devotional remembrance of allah through the recitation of his 99 names and other devotional practices

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fana

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extinction; the sense of loss of self in mystical experience

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hadith

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recollection; remembrace of an act or sayings of Muhammad

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Haji

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pilgrimage of Mecca

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Hijra

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flight; muhammad's escape from mecca to yathrib(Medina)

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Yathrib

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Medina

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Medina

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Yathrib

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Id al-Adha

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the day of scrifice during the month of the Haji when an animal is sacrificed to recall teh submission of Abraham

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Id al-Fitr

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the festival at the end of the month of Ramadan during which ppl feast and visit friends and often the graves of ancestors

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Imam

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a religious leader; specifically one of the hereditary successors of Muhammad, venerated in Shiite Islam

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Islam

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submission; the muslim religion and the community of believers who have submitted themselves to Allah

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jihad

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struggle; the ideals both of spreading islamic belief and of heroic self-sacrifice

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kabah

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cube; the square shrine at the center of teh great mosque of meca

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khadijah

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1st wife of muhammad

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mihrab

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the decorated niche inside a mosque that indicates the direction of mecca

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minaret

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a tower used by a chanter to call ppl to prayer

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mosque

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muslim place of worship

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muezzin

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a chanter who calls ppl to prayer

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muslim

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a person who sumits to allah

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qiblah

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the direction toward mecca; the direction toward which muslims pray

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Qur'an

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recitation; god's words as revealed to and recited by muhammad; an authorized edition of the written words hat appeared after muhammad's death

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ramadan

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the month of fasting; the ninth month of the muslim calendar

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sharia

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path; the whole body of islamic law, which guides a muslim's life

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shiite

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a minority branch of islam, which holds that Muhammad's genuine sucessors descended from his son-in-law ali

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sufism

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a group of devotional movements in Islam

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sunni

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the majority branch of islam, which holds that genuine succession from muhammad did not depend on hereditary descent from his son-in-law ali

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sura

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a chapter of the qur'an