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| 5086993082 | Islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. |  | 0 |
| 5086995850 | Qur'an | Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam. |  | 1 |
| 5086995851 | Mecca | City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion. |  | 2 |
| 5086995852 | Medina | City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca. |  | 3 |
| 5086997754 | Muhammad | Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam. |  | 4 |
| 5086997755 | Caliphate | Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad. |  | 5 |
| 5086999973 | mosque | A Muslim place of worship |  | 6 |
| 5087002030 | umma | The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia, where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community. |  | 7 |
| 5087002031 | Allah | Arabic word for God |  | 8 |
| 5087002032 | Kaaba | A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine |  | 9 |
| 5087004686 | Mughal Empire | an Islamic imperial power that ruled a large portion of Indian subcontinent , invaded and ruled most of (South Asia) by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century. |  | 10 |
| 5087009191 | Umayyad Empire | dynasty of caliphs that ruled the Muslim empire until 750 CE, operated out of Damascus, Syria - this empire spread Islam made and made Arabic official the language |  | 11 |
| 5087009192 | Abbasid Empire | 750-1258, Golden age of Islam, capital in Baghdad, focused on institutions and economic expansion, ethnic equality, problems were rifts with the Perisans/Shia |  | 12 |
| 5087011190 | Mamluk | 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) |  | 13 |
| 5087011191 | Sunni | A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad |  | 14 |
| 5087013085 | Shi'ite | A group of Islamic religion that believes that its religious leader should be chosen based on heredity. |  | 15 |
| 5087013086 | Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade. |  | 16 |
| 5087015376 | ulama | Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238) |  | 17 |
| 5087017641 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. |  | 18 |
| 5087021991 | Dehli Sultanate | the government and state erected by the conquering Afghani Muslims after 1500 |  | 19 |
| 5087021992 | Mali | a landlocked country in West Africa |  | 20 |
| 5087024056 | Mansa Musa | Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East. |  | 21 |
| 5087024057 | Gujarat | Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing |  | 22 |
| 5087027644 | dhows | Large ships favored by Indian, Persian, and Arab sailors that could carry up to four hundred tons of cargo. |  | 23 |
| 5087027645 | Swahili Coast | East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic sawahil, meaning 'shores.' |  | 24 |
| 5087032327 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins, whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. |  | 25 |
| 5087032328 | Aden | a port city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea |  | 26 |
| 5087034273 | Urdu | A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s. |  | 27 |
| 5087035491 | Timbuktu | City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. As part of the Mali empire, it became a major major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning. |  | 28 |
