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| 146566570 | Shi'ites | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that G-d vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. It is the state religion of Iran | 0 | |
| 146566571 | Sunnis | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. It is the majority religion in most Islamic countries | 1 | |
| 146566572 | Mecca | City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religions | 2 | |
| 146566573 | Muhammad | 570-632 C.E.; Arab prophet; founder of religions of Islam | 3 | |
| 146566574 | muslim | An adherent of the Islamic religion; a person who "submits" (in Arabic, Islam means "submission") to the will of G-d | 4 | |
| 146566575 | Islam | Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad on the basis of his reception of divine revelations, which were collected after his death in to the Quran. In the tradition of Judaism and Christianity, and sharing much of their lore, this religion calls on all people to recognize one creator g-d, Allah, who regards or punishes believers after death according to how they led their lives | 5 | |
| 146566576 | Medina | City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca | 6 | |
| 146566577 | umma | The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of 7th century Arabia, where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community | 7 | |
| 146566578 | caliphate | Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire | 8 | |
| 146566579 | Quran | Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred of the religion of Islam | 9 | |
| 146566580 | Umayyad Caliphate | 661-750; First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs. From their capital at Damascus, they ruled an empire that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate | 10 | |
| 146566581 | Abbasid Caliphate | 750-1258; Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad | 11 | |
| 146566582 | mamluks | Under the Islamic system of military slavery, Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the 9th and 10th centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state, ruling and Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) | 12 | |
| 146566583 | Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the 6th and 13th centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast | 13 | |
| 146566584 | ulama | Muslim religious scholars. From the 9th century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies | 14 | |
| 146566585 | hadith | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law | 15 |
