Islam Review: Chapter 6,7,8 Flashcards

Review for Islam

96363149	What does Islam mean?	submission	0
96363150	Identify and describe bedouin	nomadic culture that developed based on camel and goat herding.	1
96363151	Identify/describe shaykhs	leaders of the tribes/clans elected by councils of elder advisors, who had large herds, several wives, many children, and several retainers (fees/allowances) and their ideas were enforced by warriors.	2
96363152	Why were inter-clan relationships in Bedouin society in pre-Islamic times unstable?	Because of fierce rivalries and struggles to control vital pasturelands and watering places.	3
96363153	What was the result of frequent inter-class rivalries among the Bedouin, in so far as how these frequent rivalries impacted Bedouin relationships with neighboring peoples and empires (how were they perceived by neighboring peoples and empires)?	The constant wars/fighting weakened the Bedouins in relation to the neighboring peoples and empires and allowed them to be manipulated and set against each other.	4
96363154	Identify Ka'ba	(located in Mecca) was one of the most revered religious shrines in Pre-Islamic Arabia that attracted pilgrims and customers for Mecca's bazaars as well as the site of an obligatory truce in the interclan feuds.	5
96363155	Identify/describe Mecca	Controlled by the Umayyad clan of the Quraysh tribe, the most important city of northern Arabia which was a located in a mountainous region along the Red Sea on the western coast of Arabia	6
96363156	Identify/describe Medina	Formerly named Yathrib and dubbed the city of the prophet Muhammad, located northeast of Mecca, was established in an oasis which had many wells and springs allowing sedentary agriculture to be possible (most importantly date palms). It was run by competing clans/families: 2 Bedouin, 3 Jewish. These divisions helped with the formation of Islam and the survival of the prophet Muhammad.	7