Terms : Hide Images
| 36627774 | Islam | Major world religion originating in 610 CE in the Arabian peninsula; literally meaning submission; based on the prophecy of Muhammad | 0 | |
| 36627775 | Muslim | People who believe and follow the Islamic religion | 1 | |
| 36627776 | Qur'an | the holy book of Islam... recitations of revelations received by Muhammad | 2 | |
| 36627777 | Hadith | - Traditions of the prophet Mohammad that played a critical role in Islamic law and rituals; recorded by women | 3 | |
| 36627778 | Umma | community of the faithful within Islam; creating political unity | 4 | |
| 36627779 | Caliph | Political, religious and militaristic leader of Islam | 5 | |
| 36627780 | Sunnis | political and theological division within Islam... followers of the Umayyads | 6 | |
| 36627781 | Shi'is | followers of Ali | 7 | |
| 36627782 | Mawali | non-arab converts to Islam | 8 | |
| 36627783 | Jizya | head tax paid by all nonbelievers in Islamic territories | 9 | |
| 36627784 | Dhimmi | Christians and Jews who shared the Bible with Muslims, could be taxed by Muslims | 10 | |
| 36627785 | Harem | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | 11 | |
| 36627786 | Ayan | the wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of Abbasid rule | 12 | |
| 36627787 | Sultan | Islamic title, used for rulers of the muslim country | 13 | |
| 36627788 | Seljuk Turks | major branch of the Oghuz turks, ruled parts of central asia and middle east (11-14 centuries) | 14 | |
| 36627789 | Crusades | series of military adventures initially launched by western Christians to free Holy Land from Muslims (temporarily succeeded in capturing Jersalem and establishing Christian kingdoms) | 15 | |
| 36627790 | Ulama | religious leaders - traditional leanings in Islamic Empire | 16 | |
| 36627791 | Sufis | mystics within Islam... responsible for expansion of Islam in southeastern Asia | 17 | |
| 36627792 | Mongols | central Asian nomadic peoples; smashed Turko-Persian kingdoms; captured Baghdad in 1258 and killed last Abbasid caliph | 18 | |
| 36627793 | Mameluks | Muslim slave warriors; established a dynasty in Egypt; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and halted Mongol advance | 19 | |
| 36627794 | Sati | Ritual in India of immolating surviving widows with with the bodies of their deceased husbands (they threw dem hoes on the fire (alive) with their dead husbands to be cremated) | 20 | |
| 36627795 | Bhakti | groups dedicated to gods and goddesses; stressed the importance of strong emotional bonds between devotees and the god or goddess who was the object of their veneration; most widely worshipped gods were Shiva and Vishnu | 21 | |
| 36627796 | Stateless society | an ethnic group not represented by its own unique, coterminous state | 22 | |
| 36627797 | Ifriqiya | the Arabic term for eastern North Africa | 23 | |
| 36627798 | Maghrib | the Arabic term for western North Africa | 24 | |
| 36627799 | Copts | Christian sect of Egypt; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule | 25 | |
| 36627800 | Jihad | is an Arabic word meaning " striving in the way of God", but it is often translated as "holy war". Refer to an armed struggle fought in the defense of Islam to please Allah | 26 | |
| 36627801 | Juula | Malinke merchants; formed small partnerships to carry out trade throughout Mali empire; eventually spread throughout much of West Africa | 27 | |
| 36627802 | Griots | West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician, considered a repository of oral tradition | 28 | |
| 36627803 | Timbuktu | Port city of Mali; located just off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger River | 29 | |
| 36627804 | Emir Abdur Rahman | led an army during the crusades, losing to a frech army, ending the Islamic advance from Spain | 30 | |
| 36627805 | Sharia | Islamic law | 31 | |
| 36627806 | Zanj | Arabic term for the East African coast | 32 | |
| 36627807 | Swahili | A Bantu language of the coast and islands of eastern Africa from Somalia to Mozambique | 33 | |
| 36627808 | Demography | the study of population | 34 |
