The Rise of Islam, 600-1200 Flashcards

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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