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| 14955786438 | Quran | The scared scriptures of Islam containing the revelations of Muhammad | 0 | |
| 14955786439 | umma | The just and moral society of Islam; the community of all believers replacing ethnic, tribal, and racial identities | 1 | |
| 14955786440 | Pillars of Isla | The 5 pillars of Islam is the core message of the Quran and it states 5 requirements for Muslims. | 2 | |
| 14955786441 | Hijra | The emigration to Yathrib, also meaning "the journey" in English | 3 | |
| 14955786442 | Sharia | A law that regulated every aspect of life. The sharia (literally, "a path to water," which is the source of life) evolved over the several centuries following the birth of this new religion and found expression in a number of separate schools of Islamic legal practice. | 4 | |
| 14955789334 | jizya | A special tax that was theoretically a substitute for military service, supposedly forbidden to non-Muslims. | 5 | |
| 14955791632 | Umayyad caliphate | The ruling family of the first dynasty following the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs | 6 | |
| 14955794709 | Abbasid caliphate | After controversy during Umayyad rule, they were overthrown in 750 and up rose this new Arab dynasty- the Abbasids. | 7 | |
| 14955796908 | ulama | The "international elite" of religious scholars that developed the body of Islamic law primarily in the eighth and ninth centuries. | 8 | |
| 14955798594 | Sufism | The system of the Sufis. The Sufis were teachers who gained a hearing for the Islamic faith through their devotional teachings, modest ways of living, and reputation for supernatural powers. | 9 | |
| 14955802958 | Sikhism | A religious tradition founded by Guru Nanak in India that blended elements of Islam (one universald God) with Hindu concepts (karma and rebirth) | 10 | |
| 14955805823 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim scholar and explorer who was known for his travelling and excursions called the Rihla (journey within Moracco, typically to meet with other pilgrims before travelling beyond the local areas). | 11 | |
| 14955807818 | Timbuktu | One of the several West African cities that became a major center of Islamic religious and intellectual life by the sixteenth century, attracting scholars from throughout the Muslim world. | 12 | |
| 14955810680 | al-Andalus | a.k.a. Muslim Spain. It was a Muslim kingdom that occupied a lot of the Iberian Peninsula until the collapse of the Umayyad dynasty. | 13 | |
| 14955812866 | Mansa Musa | The ruler of the Kingdom of Mali, a kingdom that stretched over 1000 miles from the Atlantic coast to Timbuktu. | 14 | |
| 14955815677 | madrassas | Colleges which offered more advanced instructions in the Quran and the sayings of Mohammad, grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, law medicine, mathematics, and theology. | 15 | |
| 14955818788 | House of Wisdom | An academic center in Baghdad created by Abbasid caliph al-Mamun, a poet and scholar, in 830. | 16 | |
| 14955824861 | Ibn Sina | A prolific writer in almost all fields of science and philosophy | 17 | |
| 14955826952 | Mullah Nasruddin | An imaginary folk character within the world of islam, especially among the sufis. He also has a skeptical attitude towards vanity and ego. | 18 | |
| 14955830745 | al-Ghazali | Al-Ghazali was one of the most prominent philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. | 19 |
