7771393288 | Bedouin | member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and Southwest Asia pastoralists w/ camel and goat based culture | 0 | |
7771393289 | shayk | leaders of tribes and clans within bedouin society usually men w/ large herds wives and children | 1 | |
7771393290 | mecca | city located in mountainous region alone red sea n arabian peninsula founded by umayyad clan of Quraysh site of kaba original home of muhammad hajj destination | 2 | |
7771393291 | Khadijah | First wife of the prophet Muhammad, who had worked for her as a trader. | 3 | |
7771393292 | Muhummad | prophet with revelations | 4 | |
7771393293 | Quran (Koran) | recitation of the revelations of the prophet muhammad | 5 | |
7771393294 | ali | cousin and son in last of muhammad on of the orthodox caliphs focus for shia | 6 | |
7771393295 | Hijrah | Muhammad's migration from Mecca to (Yathrib) Medina | 7 | |
7771393296 | Ummah | The worldwide Muslim community | 8 | |
7771393297 | zakat | Tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims | 9 | |
7771393298 | ramadan | Islamic month of religious observance requiring fasting from dawn to sunset | 10 | |
7771393299 | 5 Pillars of Islam | faith, prayer, alms, fasting, pilgrimage | 11 | |
7771393300 | Abu Bakr | First caliph of Islam after the death of Muhammad | 12 | |
7771393301 | Sunnis | Political and theological division within Islam; supported the Umayyads | 13 | |
7771393302 | Shia Muslims | the 2nd largest denomination of Islam; Want a community | 14 | |
7771393303 | mawali | Non-Arab converts to Islam | 15 | |
7771393304 | Jizya | - tax that people of the book/non muslims pay | 16 | |
7771393305 | Dhimmi | Non-Muslim under Islamic rule; protected and restricted | 17 | |
7771393306 | Hadiths | Traditions of the prophet Muhammad | 18 | |
7771393307 | Umayyads | Members of the Sunni dynasty of caliphs that ruled a Muslim empire from 661 to 750 | 19 | |
7771393308 | Abbasids | A dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from A.D. 750 to 1258. | 20 | |
7771393309 | Wazir | chief administrative official under the abbasid empire | 21 | |
7771393310 | dhorrs | arab sailing vessels w/ triangular or lateen sails | 22 | |
7771393311 | ayans | the wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of abbasid rule | 23 | |
7771393312 | Idol worship | to worship a statue or symbol | 24 | |
7771393313 | Ka'ba | most revered shrine in preislamic arabia in mecca | 25 |
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