296711146 | "Submission" to Allah | Islam | 0 | |
296711147 | Muslims | Followers of Islam | 1 | |
296711148 | Muhammad | Allah's greatest prophet | 2 | |
296711149 | Spread of Islam | Through conquest and warriors | 3 | |
296711150 | Qu'ran | Holy Islamic book containing Allah's revelations to Muhammad | 4 | |
296711151 | Bedouin Culture | Pre-Islamic culture in Arabia, camel and goat herding with tribes | 5 | |
296711152 | Cycle of Vengeance | Clan rivalries, feuds over watering and grazing rights and ownership, clan wars, code of Chivalry, prevents arab unity | 6 | |
296711153 | Expulsion | death sentence | 7 | |
296711154 | Clan | necessary for survival, clan councils with elders and advisors | 8 | |
296711155 | Shaykhs | tribe/clan leaders, had larger herds, several wives, many children and servants | 9 | |
296711156 | Mecca | a city in arabia, center of transcontinental trade, had the Ka'ba, dominated by Umayyads | 10 | |
296711157 | Medina | Originally Yathrib, small oasis city, politics dominated by 2 bedouin and 3 Jewish clans | 11 | |
296711158 | Importance of Women | Descent traced through, "bride price" not dowry, didn't have to wear veils, had multiply marriage partners | 12 | |
296711159 | Patriarchal community | Only men fought in wars, property, inheritance, and divorce laws favored men, male polygamy, traced descent in cities | 13 | |
296711160 | 610 | Muhammad recieves first revelations | 14 | |
296711161 | beginning of Islam | intimate followers first, more followers=more revelations, faced by Umayyad assassination attempts | 15 | |
296711162 | Hijra | "flight to Medina", marks first year in islamic calendar | 16 | |
296711163 | Muhammad in Medina | Quickly brings peace, more followers, goes to war against Mecca and wins | 17 | |
296711164 | Ka'ba | Most important Pre-islamic shrine, becomes most important Islamic mosque | 18 | |
296711165 | Pre-Islamic religion | polytheistic and animistic, supreme distant God Allah, associated with night, caves, springs, etc | 19 | |
296711166 | Islam vs Christianity and Judaism | Islam is rigid and uncompromising; lack of angels and saints, personal religion | 20 | |
296711167 | Umma | Integrates, community of the faithful, allows political unity among rivals, one source of authority, like the christian church | 21 | |
296711168 | Egalitarian | concept that everyone is equal | 22 | |
296711169 | Ethics code | equality and dignity, generosity | 23 | |
296711170 | Body of Law | Qu'ran | 24 | |
296711171 | Jerusalem | most disputed land in all of history, Jews-Promised Land, Christians-Holy Land, Muslims-place of final judgment | 25 | |
296711172 | 5 Pillars of Islam | Shahada, prayer five times daily, Ramadan, Zakat, Hajj | 26 | |
296711173 | Caliph | Religious and political successor to Muhammad | 27 | |
296711174 | Initial Spread of Islam | Through military, religious fervor, want of booty, conquers Sassinads, some of Byzantine, some of Egypt, naval supremacy | 28 | |
296711175 | Sunni | "One who follows the traditions of the prophet", 85%-80% | 29 | |
296711176 | Shia | "Party of Ali", Iran, Iraq, 15%-20% | 30 | |
296711177 | Imam | head of Shia faith, their pope | 31 | |
296711178 | Imam | saints in Shia | 32 | |
296711179 | Imam | leader of mosque in Shia and Sunni | 33 | |
296711180 | Sunni-Shia split | Shia Muslims say Ali was the next caliph, Sunni Muslims say Mu'awiya was the next caliph | 34 | |
296711181 | Damascus | New capital in Umayyad Imperium | 35 | |
296711182 | Arab aristocracy | small ruling class | 36 | |
296711183 | Muslim Arabs | received more benefits like spoils of war | 37 | |
296711184 | Mawali | Converts to Islam, very few because they got nothing in return | 38 | |
296711185 | Jizya | tax on non-believers | 39 | |
296711186 | Dhimmi | People of the book | 40 | |
296711187 | Role of women in Umayyad Age | gained more rights, allowed to pursue occupations | 41 | |
296711188 | Umayyad decline | addicted to luxury, shift to frugal living not conquest, revolt by SUNNI Abbasid party, most Umayyad members assassinated | 42 | |
296711189 | Baghdad | New capital of Abbasids | 43 | |
296711190 | wazir | "Jafar", 2nd in power to caliph, slowly gets more power | 44 | |
296711191 | Ayan | Minority landed elite class | 45 | |
296711192 | trade boom | Revives commercial trade with China, Africa, Mediterranean, increased wealth and social status of middle class, Increasing economy, more mosques | 46 | |
296711193 | Crafts and skills | Furniture, carpets, glassware, etc, first trade guilds | 47 | |
296711194 | Sharecroppers | Majority of population | 48 | |
296711195 | Social hierarchy | Caliph, Top level bureaucrats, Ayans, Middle class, peasant farmers, Privileged slaves, Non-privileged slaves | 49 | |
296711196 | Advances | Built on previous cultures *TRANSLATED IDEAS FROM GREEK AND LATIN INTO ARABIC* | 50 |
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