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| 231577690 | Mecca | City in Western Arabia;birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and ritual center of the Islamix religion. | 0 | |
| 231577691 | Muhammad | Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam | 1 | |
| 231577692 | Muslim | An adherent of te Islamic religion; a person who "submits" | 2 | |
| 231577693 | Islam | Religion expounded by the Prophate Muhammad on the badid of his reception of devine revelations, which were collected after his death into the Quran | 3 | |
| 231577694 | Medina | City in Western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca | 4 | |
| 231577695 | umma | The community of all Muslims. | 5 | |
| 231577696 | caliphate | Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire | 6 | |
| 231577697 | Quran | Book composed of divine revelations made of the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam | 7 | |
| 231577698 | Shi'ites | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali | 8 | |
| 231577699 | Umayyad Caliphate | First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750) | 9 | |
| 231577700 | Sunnis | Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. | 10 | |
| 231577701 | Abbasid Caliphate | Decendants of the Prophate Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Calpihate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad from 750 to 1258 | 11 | |
| 231577702 | Mamluks | Under the Islamic system of military slavery, Turkic military slaved who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. | 12 | |
| 231577703 | Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. | 13 | |
| 231577704 | Ulama | Muslim religious scholars | 14 | |
| 231577705 | Hadith | A tradition relationg the words of deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Queen, the most important basis for Islamic law | 15 |
