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5715175919IslamThe religion of the Muslims a monotheistic faiths regarded as revealed through Muhammad as a prophet of Allah0
5715175920MuslimA follower of the religion of Islam1
5715175921Dar al-islamIs the area of the world under the rule of Islam literally "the home of Islam or "the home of submission"2
5715175922caliphThe chief Muslim civil and religious ruler regarded as the successor of Muhammad. The caliph roads in Baghdad until 12:58 and then the Egypt until the ottoman conquest of 1517; the title was then held by the ultimate sentence until it was abolished in 1924 by Ataturk3
5715175923qur'an/ KoranThe Islamic sacred book believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the Archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic4
5742424751ArabicA peninsula of Southwest Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf5
5742424752MuhammedThe Arab founder of Islam Muhammad is held by Muslims to be the chief of prophet of God6
5742424753jihad1. A holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious Duty also a personal struggle in Devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline 2. Crusade for a principle or belief7
5742424754MeccaIs Islam's holiest city as its the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the faith itself only Muslims are allowed in the city with millions of ready for the annual Hajj8
57424247555 pillars of IslamThe five basis of the Islamic faith shahada (confession of faith), salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), sawn (fasting,especially during the month of Ramadan), and hajj (the pilgrimage to mecca) also called pillars of the earth9
5742424756Dark agesa term of historical periodization originally meaning the Middle Ages it emphasizes the demographic cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire10
5742424757Medievalof or relating to the middle ages11
5742424758Battle of toursFought on October 10th 732 the Frankish leader Charles Martel a Christian defeated a large army of Spanish Moors halting the Muslim Advance into Western Europe12
5742424759serfIn agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his Lord's state13
5742424760feudal systemA peasant ,worker or lower ranking lord known as vassal received a piece of land in return for serving a lord or King especially during times of War vassals were expected to perform various duties in exchange for their own fiefs, or areas of land14

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