Chapter 14: Islam
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| 38712740 | The Arabian penisula is made up mostly of... | Desert | 0 | |
| 38712741 | Muhammad was born to... | a mecca merchant familly | 1 | |
| 38712742 | Muhammad maried... | Khadija | 2 | |
| 38712743 | Koran (Quran)... | Holy book of Islam | 3 | |
| 38712744 | The Koran was comprised of... | Muhammad's revalations | 4 | |
| 38712745 | The Koran defined... | authority | 5 | |
| 38712746 | Muhammad migrated to... | Medina | 6 | |
| 38712747 | Muhammad had conflict with Mecca because... | His teachings offended other people, especially the ruling elite | 7 | |
| 38712748 | The Hijra... | was the starting point of the Islamic alendar | 8 | |
| 38712749 | The umma is... | cohesive community of Muslims in Medina | 9 | |
| 38712750 | Muhammad called himself... | Seal of the prophets or the final prophet of Allah | 10 | |
| 38712751 | Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca in... | 630 C.E. | 11 | |
| 38712752 | Muhammad imposed... | A government dedicated to Allah | 12 | |
| 38712753 | Muhammad rebelliously destroyed... | Pagan shrines and built mosques | 13 | |
| 38712754 | The Ka'ba was not destroyed, yet... | It became site of pigrimage in 632 C.E. | 14 | |
| 38712755 | The Five Pillars states... | 1. there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet; 2.to pray five times facing mecca; 3. to fast during the holiday of Ramadan; 4. to give alms to the poor; 5. and to make a pigramige to mecca. | 15 | |
| 38712756 | Islamic law is based on... | the sharia (inspired by the Koran) | 16 | |
| 38712757 | The sharia | enforced male dominance | 17 | |
| 38712758 | Cliph=... | Religious Emporer/Leader | 18 | |
| 38712759 | Abu Bakr served as a caliph after Muhammad's death. This meant... | He became head of the state, chief judge, religious leader, military commander. | 19 | |
| 38712760 | The shia sect supported... | Ali and descendents as caliph | 20 | |
| 38712761 | Unlike the Sunnis... | the Shias accepted legitamcy of early caliphs | 21 | |
| 38712762 | The Umayyad dynasty temporarily solved... | problem of succession | 22 | |
| 38712763 | The Umayyad established capital city at... | Damascus in Syria | 23 | |
| 38712764 | The policy on conquered peoples was... | Levied jizya (head tax) on those who convert to Islam and Even the non-Arab converts were discriminated against. | 24 | |
| 38712765 | Umayyad decline... | due to discontent of conquered and resistance of Shia | 25 | |
| 38712766 | Abbasid dynasty... | Showed no special favor to Arab military aristocracy. Then they no longer tried to conquer but the empire still grew | 26 | |
| 38712767 | Abbasid administration... | relied heavily on persian techniques of statecraft, central authority ruled from the court of baghdad, appointed governors to rule provinces, Ulama and qadis ruled locally. | 27 | |
| 38712768 | Harun al-Rashid was the... | high point of Abassid dynasty. | 28 | |
| 38712769 | Abbasid decline resulted from... | Struggle for succesion between Haruns sons led to civil war, governors built theri own power bases, popular uprisings and peasant rebellions weakened the dynasty, a persian noble seized control of Baghdad in 945 C.E., Later ther Saljuq Turks Controlled the imerial family. | 29 | |
| 38712770 | A new industry of... arose | paper manufacture | 30 | |
| 38712771 | Arab and Persian mariners borrowed the... from the... | Compass; Chinese | 31 | |
| 38712772 | Borrowed the lateen... | sail | 32 | |
| 38712773 | Borrowed the astrolabe from... | Hellistenic mariners | 33 | |
| 38712774 | Women's rights provided by the Koran were reduced through... | later interpretations. | 34 | |
| 38712775 | Ulama qadis and missionaries were... | main agents | 35 | |
| 38712776 | Sufis=... | Islamic mystics | 36 | |
| 38712777 | Sufises were... | most effective missionaries, encouraged devotion to Allah by passionate singin or dancing. | 37 | |
| 38712778 | Al-Ghazali belied that... | Human reason was too frail and confusing | 38 | |
| 38712779 | Sufis led... | ascetic and holy lives | 39 | |
| 38712780 | Sufis encouraged followers... and tolerated those who... | to revere Alah in their own ways; tolerated those who associated Allah with other beliefs. | 40 | |
| 38712781 | The Ka'ba became... | the symbol of Islamic cultural unity | 41 | |
| 38712782 | Persian influenced Islam by... | literary works, administrative techniques borrowed from the Sasanids, Ideas of kingship: wise, benevolent, absolute | 42 | |
| 38712783 | Indian influenced Islam by... | Adopted Hindi numberals, which Europeans later called Arabic numerals, Algebra and Trig | 43 | |
| 38712784 | Greek influenced Islam by... | Muslims philosphers especially liked Plato and Aristotle | 44 |
