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34 Cards in this Set
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In AD 610 Muhammed experienced a vison called what?
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a revelation
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home of the Arabs...margin of middle eastern civilization...kept the empires in the Northern part of the region from invading arab lands
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Arabian Peninsula
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denounced the worship of idols and believed in one God
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hanifs
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in Makkah...holiest shrine that contained statues of the many arab deities
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Kaaba
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a crossroad of commerce about 50 miles inland from the Red Sea...traded animal products here for different goods
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Makkah
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What year was Muhammed born?
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AD 570
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the prophet of Islam
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Muhammed
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Who does Muhammed marry?
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Khadija
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What city did Muhammed and his following Muslims escaped to in AD 622?
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Yathrib
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majority of Muslims...who believed that the caliph was primarily a leader, not a religious authority
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the Sunni
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a smaller group of Muslims who followed Ali and Husayn, believed that the caliphate should be held only by descendants of Muhammed through his daughter Fatimah and her husband Ali
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the Shiite
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2 achievements of Muhammed
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1 was the formation of a religious community based on carefully preserved sacred writings and 2 was the example of his life as an interpretive guide for Muslims to follow
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What does the yr AD 622 mark?
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the beginning of the Islamic era and is recognized as the first year of the Muslim calendar
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His departure to Yathrib is known in Muslim history as what?
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Hijrah
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spiritual capitol of islam
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Makkah
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where Muhammed laid the foundation of an Islamic state
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the Madinah Compact
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the holy scriptures of Islam
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the Quran
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center of Islam
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Madinah
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holy struggle to bring Islam to other lands
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jihad
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leader of each bedouin tribe..appointed by the heads of the families--was the chief
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sheikh
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covers all aspects of Muslim private and public life
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Shari'ah
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capitol moved here from Madinah---more centrally located
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Damascus
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prayer leader that guides believers in prayer, and a sermon sometimes follows
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an imam
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new city--built on the banks of the Tigris River
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Baghdad
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Ali's son--refused to accept Umayyad rule and sontinued the struggle
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Husayn
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Muhammed's successor who ordered muslims to retrieve messages from wherever they could be found
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Abu Bakr
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decorated books, carpets, swords, and entire walls
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arabesques
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a persian mathmatician and poet--wrote the rubaiyat
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omar khayyam
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where many muslims pray together--a building that may serve as a place of worship, a school, a court of law, and a shelter
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a mosque
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annual pilgrimmage to makkah
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hajj
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nomads who herded sheep, camels, and goats and lived in tents made of felt from camel or goat hair
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bedouin
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the ninth month of the Muslim calendar
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Ramadan
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meaning "successor"
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caliph
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the first caliph was who?
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Abu Bakr
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