Chapter 11 Vocab
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| 7667851812 | Quran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 0 | |
| 7667851813 | umma | the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan | 1 | |
| 7667851814 | Pillars of Islam | is the term given to the five duties incumbent on every Muslim. These duties are Shahadah (profession of faith), Salat (ritual prayer), Zakat (almsgiving), Sawm (fasting during Ramadan) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) | 2 | |
| 7667851815 | hijra | The Migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622, marking the founding of Islam | 3 | |
| 7667851816 | sharia | the code of law derived from the Quran and from the teachings and example of Muhammad | 4 | |
| 7667851817 | jizya | tax paid by Christians and Jews who lived in Muslim communities to allow them to continue to practice their own religion | 5 | |
| 7667851818 | ulama | the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | 6 | |
| 7667851819 | Umayyad Caliphate | First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus, the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate. | 7 | |
| 7667851820 | Abbasid Caliphate | Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad from 750 to 1258. | 8 | |
| 7667851821 | al-Ghazali | Brilliant Islamic theologian; struggled to fuse Greek and Qur'anic traditions; not entirely accepted by ulama | 9 | |
| 7667851822 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 10 | |
| 7667851823 | Anatolia | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey | 11 | |
| 7667851824 | 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. | 12 | |
| 7667851825 | Timbuktu | a city in central Mali near the Niger river | 13 | |
| 7667851826 | al-Abdalus | one prince out of Umayyad that escaped to Spain -turned Southern Spain Muslim | 14 | |
| 7667851827 | madrassas | a school for the study of Muslim law and religion | 15 | |
| 7667851828 | House of Wisdom | Combination library, academy, and translation center in Baghdad established in the 800s. | 16 | |
| 7667851829 | Ibn Sina | The famous Islamic scientist and philosopher who organized the medical knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs into the Canon of Medicine | 17 |
