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8008455503abbasidrelating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in baghdad from 750 to 12580
8008455504baghdada city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris1
8008455505muhammadthe arab founder of islam; held by muslims to be the chief prophet of god; was born in mecca2
8008455506bedouina nomadic arab of the desert3
8008455507polygynywhen a man has more than one wife4
8008455508allahthe supreme being; god5
8008455509meccathe birthplace of muhammad; muslims face in the direction of mecca when they pray, and expected to go on a pilgrimage to mecca once in their lifetime6
8008455510quran (koran)the islamic sacred book; believed to be the word of god as dictated to muhammad by the archangel gabriel and written down in arabic7
8008455511medinathe old arab or non-european quarter of a north african town8
8008455512hegirathe journey that muhammad and his followers took when they left from mecca to medina in AD 6229
8008455513ka'abasmall 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 praying10
8008455514five pillarscore 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 lifetime11
8008455515jihada struggle of fight against the enemies of islam12
8008455516ramadanthe ninth month of the muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset13
8008455517shariahislamic code of law14
8008455518caliphthe chief muslim civil and religious leader, reguarded as the successor of muhammad15
8008455519alimuhammad's cousin and son-in-law16
8008455520sunnisone of the two main branches of islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from shia in its understanding of the sunna and in its acceptance of the first three caliphs17
8008455521shiaone of the two main branches of islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three sunni caliphs and regards ali, the fourth caliph, as muhammad's first true successor18
8008455522umayyad dynastya member of the dynasty that ruled at damascus 661-750, claiming descent from omayya, cousin of the grandfather of muhammad the prophet19
8008455524imamthe person who leads prayers in a mosque20
8008455525feamle infanticidethe intentional killing of newborn girls21
8008455526dowriesproperty or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage22
8008455527hijaba head covering worn in public by some muslim women23

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