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50 Cards in this Set
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Bedouins |
Nomadic herders |
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Muhammad |
"The Prophet"; founder of Islam |
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Mecca |
bustling market town that became the holiest city of Islam |
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Yathrib |
destination for Muhammad when he left Mecca under threat of murder |
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hijra |
Muhammad's journey to Yathrib |
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Medina |
new name for Yathrib; "City of the Prophet" |
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Kaaba |
most holy place in Islam |
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Quran |
holy book of Islam |
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mosque |
Muslim place of worship |
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hajj |
pilgrimage to Mecca |
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jihad |
struggle in God's service |
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Sharia |
body of law in Islam |
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Abu Bakr |
Muhammad's father-in-law and an early convert to Islam |
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caliph |
successor to Muhammad |
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Sunni |
group in Islam who believe inspiration comes from the example of Muhammad |
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Shiite |
group in Islam who believe Muhammad's descendants should be who interprets the Quran |
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Sufis |
Muslim mystics who meditate and fast |
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Umayyads |
first group of caliphs who ruled until 750 |
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Abbasids |
caliphate started by Abu al-Abbas |
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Baghdad |
capital of the Abbasid caliphate |
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minaret |
slender tower of a mosque |
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sultan |
ruler who controlled Baghdad |
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social mobility |
the ability to move up in social class |
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Firdawsi |
Poet who wrote in Persian using Arabic script |
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Omar Khayyam |
wrote The Rubaiyat |
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calligraphy |
art of beautiful handwriting |
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Ibn Rushd |
put all knowledge except the Quran to the test of reason |
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Ibn Khaldun |
set standards for the scientific study of history |
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al-Khwarizmi |
pioneered the study of algebra |
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Muhammad al-Razi |
one of the most original medical thinkers |
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Ibn Sina |
famous Persian physician |
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Delhi |
the Sultan of Ghur's capital in India |
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Sikhism |
blending of Islamic and Hindu beliefs |
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Babur |
military genius and poet who started the Mughal Dynasty |
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Mughal |
Persian word for Mongol |
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Akbar |
chief builder of the Mughal Empire; Babur's grandson |
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Nur Jahan |
wife of Jahangir who controlled the Mughal Empire |
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Shah Jahan |
ruler during the high point of the Mughal Empire |
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Taj Mahal |
tomb built by Shah Jahan to honor his favorite wife |
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rajah |
local Hindu ruler |
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Ottomans |
Turkish-speaking nomadic people |
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Istanbul |
new name for Constantinople |
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Sulieman |
sultan who ruled during the golden age of the Ottoman Empire |
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janizary |
soldier in the elite force of the Ottoman army |
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Safavid |
dynasty in Persia that arose in the 1500s |
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shah |
title of a Safavid king |
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Shah Abbas |
best-known of the shahs of the Safavid Empire |
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Isfahan |
capital of the Safavid Empire |
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Qajars |
dynasty that gained control of Iran in the late 1700s |
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Tehran |
capital of the Qajar Empire |
