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| 106464274 | Arabian Peninsula | Famous for poetry and story telling -no river or lakes | 0 | |
| 106464275 | Oasis | Underground water systems -helps to shape the culture | 1 | |
| 106464276 | Bedouins | Pastorlists who created their own tribes/clans CLANS FOLOW THE RELIGION BASED ON THE LEADER. | 2 | |
| 106464277 | Mecca | Pilgrimage center of the Kaaba and made its income off of tourists. | 3 | |
| 106464278 | Kaaba | Most prominant pilgrimage site. -cubical shrine | 4 | |
| 106464279 | Jinns and Shaitans | Arabs believed in these desert spirits THIS IS WHY PEEPS BELIEVED MUHAMMADs calling | 5 | |
| 106464280 | Muhammad | Caravan merchant convinced there was a god ALLAH | 6 | |
| 106464281 | ISLAM | Monotheistic religion -Religion would have died in mecca if they did not move to medina | 7 | |
| 106464282 | The Structure of Islam | Islam became popular because of it's SIMPLICITY (Compared to Christianity and Judiasm) | 8 | |
| 106464283 | Why was mecca opposed to Islam? | Because it was monotheistic when everyone there were polytheistic believers (kaaba) | 9 | |
| 106464284 | What does the word "Muslim" Literally mean? | It means "one who submits to Allah" | 10 | |
| 106464285 | Umma | The community of all believers -women were respected -a community defined solely by acceptance of Islam | 11 | |
| 106464286 | Qu'ran | A the holy book composed of Muhammad's revelations. -"Words of God" -Final form was in 650 | 12 | |
| 106464287 | Five Pillars | -Public profession of Faith-public submission to allah -Prayer-5 times a day facing mecca, wash all visible parts of the body -Tithing of Charity-Giving ten percent -Fasting-Ramadan- fasting from sunrise to sunset -Pilgrimage to Haj-Making a trip to mecca at least once in a lifetime | 13 | |
| 106464288 | Medina Society | In 622-sent representatives to mecca to meet with muhammad -place where muhammad came to mediate problems -Momentious moment in Islam history | 14 | |
| 106464289 | what did moving to medina do? | Beginning of the Islamic calendar. | 15 | |
| 106464290 | How it differs from Jud or Christianity | All power is in the hands of Muhammad -Jud and Chris were minor religions -NO PROFESSIONAL CLERGY- no priest etc | 16 | |
| 106464291 | Shari'a | legal code -concerned with behavior rather than doctrine | 17 | |
| 106464292 | Caliph | Leader of an Islamic Community -Located outside of Arabia | 18 | |
| 106464293 | Office of the Caliph | Was more secular than religious | 19 | |
| 106464294 | "People of Tradition | Muslims who supported the first three caliphs | 20 | |
| 106464295 | Caliphate | Built on the conquests the arabs carried out after muhammad's death | 21 | |
| 106464296 | Conquests | Men of political and economic sophistication guided the conquests -no evidence of spreading ISLAM -little material incentive | 22 | |
| 106464297 | Mamluks | Turkish slaves purchased from central asia by caliphs -took in on themselves to seat and unseat caliphs | 23 | |
| 106464298 | Kingdom of Ghana | Earliest known sub-saharan beneficiancy of the new exchange system "Land of gold" -First land outside caliphate to experience a gradual and peaceful conversion to Islam | 24 | |
| 106464299 | Fatimids | Ruled from complex called Cairo -conquered egypt | 25 | |
| 106464300 | Crusades | Little impact on Islamic lands POLITICAL NOT RELIGIOUS | 26 | |
| 106464301 | FALL OF CALIPHS | Mongols invaded leaving few ethnic traces and WAR | 27 | |
| 106464302 | Islam Women | Seldom traveled -Urban women lived in seclusion and did not leave the house before covering themselves -Islamic law granted greatest status than Christian or Jewish law | 28 | |
| 106464303 | Islam Slaves | only slave women could perform as musicians or dancers | 29 | |
| 106464304 | Schism | Division of Islam | 30 | |
| 106464305 | Sunni | Believe that "We are a community" -religious authority comes from the community | 31 | |
| 106464306 | Ulama | Sunni religious scholars | 32 | |
| 106464307 | Shi'a | Believe that they caliph should be a blood line connection to muhammad -only the Imans can explain the true meaning of the koran | 33 | |
| 106464308 | Imam | Religious leaders from the Shi'a | 34 | |
| 106464309 | Sufi's | Represents Islam's Mystical side. -Wanting a direct and personal exp with allah -used to meditate to commute with allah -ESCAPING FROM PHYSICAL SELF | 35 |
