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| 11545437890 | Abbasid | relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258 | 0 | |
| 11545437891 | Baghdad | a city in and the capital of The Abbasid Caliphate, in the central part, on the Tigris | 1 | |
| 11545437892 | Muhammad | the arab founder of islam; held by muslims to be the chief prophet of god; was born in mecca | 2 | |
| 11545437893 | Bedouin | nomadic Arab of the deserts of Southwest Asia | 3 | |
| 11545437894 | polygyny | when a man has more than one wife | 4 | |
| 11545437895 | Allah | the Supreme Being; God in Islam | 5 | |
| 11545437896 | Mecca | the birthplace of Muhammad; Muslims face in the direction of this city when they pray, and expected to go on a pilgrimage to this city once in their lifetime | 6 | |
| 11545437897 | Quran (Koran) | the Islamic sacred book; believed to be the word of god as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic | 7 | |
| 11545437898 | Medina | City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca. | 8 | |
| 11545437899 | hegira | the journey that Muhammad and his followers took when they left from Mecca to Medina in AD 622 | 9 | |
| 11545437900 | ka'aba | small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that contains a sacred black stone and is the goal of islamic pilgrimage and the point toward which muslims turn in praying | 10 | |
| 11545437901 | Five Pillars of Islam | core set of obligations that the Muslims follow 1. believing in one god 2. praying 5 times daily 3. giving alms to the poor 4. fasting during the month of Ramadan 5. make a pilgrimage to mecca once in a lifetime | 11 | |
| 11545437902 | jihad | a struggle of fight against the enemies of islam | 12 | |
| 11545437903 | Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset | 13 | |
| 11545437904 | shariah | Islamic code of law that includes rules for all aspects of life | 14 | |
| 11545437905 | caliph | the chief Muslim civil and religious leader, regarded as the successor of Muhammad | 15 | |
| 11545437906 | Ali | Muhammad's cousin, son-in-law, and fourth caliph | 16 | |
| 11545437907 | Sunnis | one of the two main branches of Islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from the other branch of Islam based on its acceptance of the first three caliphs | 17 | |
| 11545437908 | Shia | one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three caliphs and regards Ali, the fourth caliph, as Muhammad's first true successor | 18 | |
| 11545437909 | Umayyad Dynasty | a member of the dynasty that ruled at Damascus 661-750, claiming descent from Omayyad, cousin of the grandfather of Muhammad the prophet | 19 | |
| 11545437910 | Damascus | capital and likely the largest city in Syria | 20 | |
| 11545437911 | imam | the person who leads prayers in a mosque | 21 | |
| 11545437914 | hijab | a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women | 22 | |
| 11545812495 | 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 ninth and tenth centuries. They eventually founded their own state, ruling Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) | 23 | |
| 11545817087 | Seljik Turks | A nomadic people from Central Asia. They converted to Islam and then fought with the Abbasid Empire which they eventually overthrew. Their leader, or sultan, was the head military leader of the Islamic state. | 24 |
