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| 102088279 | umma | The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia, where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community. (p. 231) | 0 | |
| 102088280 | scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408) | 1 | |
| 102088281 | small traditions | Historians' term for a localized, usually non-literate, set of customs and beliefs adhered to by a single society, often in conjunction with a "great tradition" | 2 | |
| 102088282 | Romanesque | a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD | 3 | |
| 102088283 | Quran | Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam. (p. 232) | 4 | |
| 102088284 | ontological | Concerning the very essence or nature of a being. | 5 | |
| 102088285 | monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith; a monk | 6 | |
| 102088286 | medieval | Literally 'middle age,' a term that historians of Europe use for the period ca. 500 to ca. 1500, signifying its intermediate point between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. (p. 250) | 7 | |
| 102088287 | Islam | A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet. Islam is based in the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad. | 8 | |
| 102088288 | hadith | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law. (p. 241) | 9 | |
| 102088289 | great traditions | historians term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religiouis and socila beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area | 10 | |
| 102088290 | Gothic | an architectural style developed during the Middle Ages in western Europe; featured pointed arches and flying buttresses as external supports on main walls | 11 | |
| 102088291 | feudalism | A political system based on the rule of local lords bound to a king by ties of loyalty. It developed as a system of local defense against invaders in western Europe, China, and Japan. | 12 | |
| 102088292 | cosmological | the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and esp. with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom. | 13 |
