AP World History Flashcards

3431461533	Caliph	"Deputy", Ruler in place of a prophet	0
3431463815	Abu Bakr	first caliph after muhammad's death, becoming the head of state, religious leader, and military commander all at one time, he was assassinated	1
3431465580	Sharia	Islamic law	2
3431467477	Ulama	people with religious knowledge	3
3431467478	Shia	islamic division that felt that ali was the first imam, and that only descendants of ali could be caliph	4
3431469347	Mu'awiyah	founded the umayyad dynasty	5
3431470983	Umayyad Dynasty	capital was at damascus, brought stability to the islamic world, came from the meccan merchant class	6
3431479701	Damascus	the capital of the umayyad dynasty	7
3431482519	Dar-al-Islam	the house of islam	8
3431484383	Abu-al-Abbas	Sunni Arab, who allied with the shia and non-arab muslims	9
3431486575	Abbasid Dynasty	siezes control of persia and mesopotamia, defeats umayyad army in 750	10
3431486576	Harun-al Rashid	often cancelled tax collections because they had enough money, was caliph during the high point of abassid dynasty	11
3431488523	Seljuk Turks	established a turkish muslim state, ruled by tuhgril beg	12
3431490211	Tughril Beg	leader of the seljuk turks, took over baghdad	13
3431490212	Talas river	A battle in which the top two armies (the tang and abassid dynasties) fought in751 and the Abassids won	14
3431506711	Al-Andalus	"Islamic Spain", people here often wrote in arabic, had a big impact on european and spanish history, and allied with the umayyads	15
3431508438	Status of Women in the Islamic World	they were treated pretty well, often had to wear veils, female infanticide was banned, they regained their dowry in the divorce, and could testify in court	16
3431513141	Islamic culture	the importance of the hajj, education, uniformity in law	17
3431513142	Madrasas	islamic schools/universities	18
3431530541	Sufis	mystic muslims/missionaries	19
3431538381	Al-Ghazali	a major sufi thinker from persia, believed in the impossibility of intellectual apprehension of Allah, devotion and mystical ecstasy instead	20
3431540270	Persian influences on Islam	government, administration, and literature	21
3431540292	Greek influences on Islam	philosophy especially aristotle and Ibn Rushd	22
3431550241	Indian influences on Islam	math, science, and medicine	23