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| 3431461533 | Caliph | "Deputy", Ruler in place of a prophet | 0 | |
| 3431463815 | Abu Bakr | first caliph after muhammad's death, becoming the head of state, religious leader, and military commander all at one time, he was assassinated | 1 | |
| 3431465580 | Sharia | Islamic law | 2 | |
| 3431467477 | Ulama | people with religious knowledge | 3 | |
| 3431467478 | Shia | islamic division that felt that ali was the first imam, and that only descendants of ali could be caliph | 4 | |
| 3431469347 | Mu'awiyah | founded the umayyad dynasty | 5 | |
| 3431470983 | Umayyad Dynasty | capital was at damascus, brought stability to the islamic world, came from the meccan merchant class | 6 | |
| 3431479701 | Damascus | the capital of the umayyad dynasty | 7 | |
| 3431482519 | Dar-al-Islam | the house of islam | 8 | |
| 3431484383 | Abu-al-Abbas | Sunni Arab, who allied with the shia and non-arab muslims | 9 | |
| 3431486575 | Abbasid Dynasty | siezes control of persia and mesopotamia, defeats umayyad army in 750 | 10 | |
| 3431486576 | Harun-al Rashid | often cancelled tax collections because they had enough money, was caliph during the high point of abassid dynasty | 11 | |
| 3431488523 | Seljuk Turks | established a turkish muslim state, ruled by tuhgril beg | 12 | |
| 3431490211 | Tughril Beg | leader of the seljuk turks, took over baghdad | 13 | |
| 3431490212 | Talas river | A battle in which the top two armies (the tang and abassid dynasties) fought in751 and the Abassids won | 14 | |
| 3431506711 | Al-Andalus | "Islamic Spain", people here often wrote in arabic, had a big impact on european and spanish history, and allied with the umayyads | 15 | |
| 3431508438 | Status of Women in the Islamic World | they were treated pretty well, often had to wear veils, female infanticide was banned, they regained their dowry in the divorce, and could testify in court | 16 | |
| 3431513141 | Islamic culture | the importance of the hajj, education, uniformity in law | 17 | |
| 3431513142 | Madrasas | islamic schools/universities | 18 | |
| 3431530541 | Sufis | mystic muslims/missionaries | 19 | |
| 3431538381 | Al-Ghazali | a major sufi thinker from persia, believed in the impossibility of intellectual apprehension of Allah, devotion and mystical ecstasy instead | 20 | |
| 3431540270 | Persian influences on Islam | government, administration, and literature | 21 | |
| 3431540292 | Greek influences on Islam | philosophy especially aristotle and Ibn Rushd | 22 | |
| 3431550241 | Indian influences on Islam | math, science, and medicine | 23 |
