ap world history vocab Flashcards
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| 275666167 | ali | The fourth caliph or successor of Muhammad. He was also the Prophet's cousin. He is revered by Shi'a Muslims as the rightful first caliph | 0 | |
| 275666168 | abu bakr | First caliph of Islam after the death of Muhammad | 1 | |
| 275666169 | ridda wars | wars that followed muhammad's death that restored unity of islam | 2 | |
| 275666170 | jihad | Islamic holy war | 3 | |
| 275666171 | uthman | Third caliph and member of Umayyad clan; murdered by mutinous warriors returning from Egypt; death set off civil war in Islam between followers of Ali and the Umayyad clan | 4 | |
| 275666172 | battle of sifflin | battle fought between the followers of Ali and the followers of the Ummayads; led to the fragmentation of Ali's party | 5 | |
| 275666173 | muawiya | first ummayad caliph | 6 | |
| 275666174 | sunni | division of Islam that followed the ummayads | 7 | |
| 275666175 | shia | a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Muhammed's son-in-law Ali as the true rulers of Islam | 8 | |
| 275666176 | mawali | non arab converts to islam | 9 |