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62 Cards in this Set
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Hadith
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narrative
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Qur'an |
Recitation |
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Quraysh |
ruling tribe of Mecca |
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Kaaba |
box-shaped pilgrimage site in Mecca |
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Shahadah |
Confession of Faith |
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hanif |
pious one |
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nabi
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prophet |
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mi'raj |
miraculous ascent to heaven |
Mirage |
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qiblah |
direction of prayer |
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hijrah |
migration |
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Medina
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"The City"
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Ummah |
community |
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Sunnah |
traditions/life example of the Prophet |
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Sunni |
those that follow the Sunnah |
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Shi'a |
"party" devotion to Muhammad's family |
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khalifah |
one who represents or acts on behalf of another
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caliph |
leader - often religious, political, and military |
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rasul |
messenger |
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shari'ah |
universally binding sacred law |
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ayah |
verse |
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surah |
chapter |
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tafsir |
"unveiling" or elucidating the meaning of a text Qur'anic interpretation |
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shirk |
idolatry making something a partner or associate of God |
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iman |
faith, trust |
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kufr |
knowing the truth but willfully denying it |
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ihsan |
doing good or creating beauty |
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salat |
obligatory prayers |
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wudu' or wadu |
making pure, cleansing rituals
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mu'adhdin or muezzin |
one who chants the call to prayer |
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rak'ah |
prayer cycle |
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al-Fatihah |
opening sura of the Qur'an |
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masjid |
place of prostration in prayer |
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jami |
gatherer |
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zakat |
obligatory almsgiving tax (2.5%) |
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hajj |
pilgrimage |
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sadaqah |
voluntary almsgiving |
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ulama |
religio-legal scholars |
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halal |
lawful |
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haram |
forbidden |
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ijtihad |
personal reasoning |
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ijma |
consensus of the community |
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Abu Hanifah |
most famous jurist of Iraq |
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fatwa |
legal opinion
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muftis |
experts in religious law |
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Taqlid |
following the ijtihad of a particular jurist |
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tajwid |
art/science of Islamic recitation |
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fiqh |
jurisprudence |
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Rabi'a al-'Adawiyah |
early woman mystic from 8th century Basra |
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Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj |
controversial 9th-century Sufi martyr |
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shaykh (sheikh) |
master |
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dhikr |
"rememberance" - repetition of the name of God accompanied by special bodily movements |
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sama' |
"hearing" - often listening to the hypnotic chanting of mystical poetry |
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iqra |
"recite" |
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tawhid |
radical monotheism |
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jinn |
supernatural beings |
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iblis |
the Devil |
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Fitra |
of sound constitution Essentially good |
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ghaflah |
forgetting |
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adhan |
call to prayer |
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sawm |
fasting |
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minaret |
tower of mosque |
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infidel |
one who lacks gratitude |
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