Chapter 6 : Rise and Spread of Islam Flashcards

100069719	What does Islam mean?	Submission	0
100069720	Who are the Bedouins?	Arab camal nomads	1
100069721	basic social group of the Bedouins?	Kin related clan groups	2
100069722	Shaykhs are...?	leaders of the Bedouin clans	3
100069723	What clan is found in Mecca?	Umayyad	4
100069724	***Religious shrine that focuses on annual truce in pre islamic Mecca was _____.	Ka'ba	5
100069725	Before Muhammads revelations, Bedouins religion was	Animism and polytheism	6
100069726	Who ruled Medina prior to Muhammads flight there?	Jewish and Bedouin clans	7
100069727	Describe Muhammads flight to Medina.	Muhammad fled from Mecca with 1/4 of the cities population	8
100069728	The Islamic Umma was...?	Concept of community of the faithful that transcended clan boundaries	9
100069729	religious practices that are incubent on all Muslims are called?	Five Pillars of Faith	10
100069730	Pilgrimage to Mecca is called what?	Hajj	11
100069731	What were the Ridda wars?	Fought to suppress rival prophets and to restore unity of Islam	12
100069732	Describe the resistance of the byzantine Empire to Islamic attacks	Byzantine was resilient than Sassanian Empire, ,but still suffered the loss of Egypt, Sydria, and palestine to the Arabs	13
100069733	Theological and political factions that supportted Umayyad concept of succession within Islam were the....	Sunnis	14
100069734	***Nature of citizenship within Umayyad Empire?	Only muslim Arabs were first class citizens of this great empire	15
100228692	Status of women in Abbasid times?	Declined in part as a result of the growing cultural influence of the conquered populations such as the Persians	16
101188268	-Extent of sedentary agriculture in the Arabian peninsula?	in the far south on the Yemen and Hadramaut coasts extensive sedentary agriculture developed in ancient times	17
101188269	Status of women in Boudin society before Islam?	greater freedom and higher status	18
101188270	***Ummayad response to Muhammad migration to Medina?	War broke out between Mecca and Medina and success there	19
101188271	Inter-clan relationships in Bedouin society?	inter-clan violence over control of water was common	20
101188272	***Not a reasons for early expansion of Islam past Arabia?	conversion	21
101188273	Umayyads response to Muhammads new faith?	regarded him as a threat to their wealth since he questioned the gods	22
101188274	What Arabian culture shaped Islam?	Bedouin	23
101188276	result of inter-clan rivalries	weakened Bedouin in comparison to other civilizations	24
101188277	Major difference between Medina and MeccA?	Political dominence in Medina contested with number of Jew tribes	25
101188278	What happened after Muhammad died in 632?	Bedouin tribes gave up islam	26
101188279	***Cultural contribution of Muslims?	Muslims recovered and preserved works of ancient philosophers	27
101188281	***Why was caliph uthman disliked?	First caliph chosen from Muhammads early enemies	28
101188282	Umayyad attitude toward other religions?	tolerence toward them	29
101188283	Muhammads teaching with respect to revelations of other monotheistic religions?	accepted them, and taught the final refinement of them.	30
122485652	***what are ayan	rural landholding elite	31
122485653	***Nature of material culture of the Bedouin?	except in sedentary agricltural communities of the south, there was little art or architecture and the chief focus of cultural creativity was oral poetry	32
122485654	***components of bedouin society	free warriors, slaves, herders, shaykhs (no artisans)	33
122485655	***culture found in Arabian peninsula that shaped development of islam?	bedouin	34
122485656	***what was most significant of the transformations brought about by abbasid rise to power	admin of the malawi as full members of islamic community	35
122485657	***not affected by islam after 600AD?	south america	36
122485658	***clan into with Muhammah was born	banu hashim	37