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18 Cards in this Set
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suq |
Arabic for market / bazaar |
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Shia Islam |
Followers of Ali, the son in law and cousin of Muhammad; second largest denomination |
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Sunni Islam |
Supporters of the consensus of the Ummah, supported Abu Bakr; largest denomination; "orthodox" version of Islam |
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wajh |
Arabic for honor or face; honor of a tribe or family |
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Five Pillars of Islam |
declaration of faith (shahada), ritual prayer in the direction of the Kabba, alsmgiving (zakat), fasting during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) |
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shahada |
declaration of faith, 1st Pillar of Islam |
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zakat |
almsgiving, 3rd Pillar of Islam |
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hajj |
pilgrimage to Mecca, 5th Pillar of Islam |
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ulama (ulema) |
religious scholar, "lawyer" of Islamic law |
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hijra |
Muhammad's exile / emmigration to Medina |
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Jahaliyaa |
era before Islam |
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ummah |
Arabic word meaning nation or community |
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hudna |
treaty Muhammad made with the Quraysh / a ten year "ceasefire" made with a non-Islamic state |
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Max Weber's pyramid of state power |
(top) legitimacy, patronage, force (bottom) |
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Countries with the most Muslims |
1) Indonesia 2) Pakistan 3) India 4) Bangladesh 5) Turkey 6) Nigeria 7) Iran 8) Egypt 9) Algeria 10) Morocco |
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suras |
"chapters" of the Koran |
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hadith |
Written accounts of the words of Muhammad |
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djimmi |
protected status given to minority communities of Christians and Jews (People of the Book, who should not be converted against their will so long as they pay tribute and show deference to Arab rule) |
