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| 14917593961 | Koran (Qur'an) | the holy book of Islam | 0 | |
| 14917593962 | caliph | leader of islam, successor to Muhammad | 1 | |
| 14917593963 | five pillars of islam | 1) allah is the only god 2) pray 5 times a day facing mecca 3) fast during the month of Ramadan 4) give to poor 5) complete haji (journey to mecca) | 2 | |
| 14917593964 | mecca | religious center of islam, where muhammad was born, trading center | 3 | |
| 14917593965 | medina | city where muhammad was forced to relocate because those in mecca didn't approve of his practices and preachings | 4 | |
| 14917593966 | sunnis | brach of islam supporting abu bakr and choosing leaders | 5 | |
| 14917593967 | shia | brach of islam who supported ali and muhammad's family as successors | 6 | |
| 14917593968 | umayyads treatment of converts | converts: taxed them and treated them as inferior / second class | 7 | |
| 14917593969 | jizya | tax that non muslims had to pay | 8 | |
| 14917593970 | ridda wars | wars following muhammad's death that restored the unity of islam | 9 | |
| 14917593971 | mawali | converts to islam | 10 | |
| 14917593972 | ulama | orthodox religious scholars who interpreted the Karan | 11 | |
| 14917593973 | fall of umayyad | warriors resented authority from far away, we're not given their fair share of wealth and they saw the Damascus elite as corrupt this causes an uprising as these old warriors are replaced, rebels captured persia, iraq then syria | 12 | |
| 14917593974 | damascus | city in syria where the umayyads shifted their political center to | 13 | |
| 14917593975 | abbasid empire | took over after umayyad fall | 14 | |
| 14917593976 | abbasid treatment of women & converts | women lost rights and authority, weren't allowed outside converts considered full members of community, no discrimination between them | 15 | |
| 14917593977 | harem | place where women were secluded and kept by the abbasid empire | 16 | |
| 14917593978 | baghdad | city in iraq where abbasid empire built their new capital | 17 | |
| 14917593979 | buyids | persian invaders in 10th century, captured baghdad and told Abbasids what to do (controlled them against their will) | 18 | |
| 14917593980 | sufi mystics | converted islams, responsible for its expansion | 19 | |
| 14917593981 | crusades | christians invades muslim lands, muslims recaptured them, cultural diffusion occurs | 20 | |
| 14917593982 | saladin | a muslim ruler who reconquered most kingdoms after being taken over by crusafes | 21 | |
| 14917593983 | abbasid empire fall | mongols invaded | 22 |
