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7771393288	Bedouin	member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and Southwest Asia pastoralists w/ camel and goat based culture	0
7771393289	shayk	leaders of tribes and clans within bedouin society usually men w/ large herds wives and children	1
7771393290	mecca	city located in mountainous region alone red sea n arabian peninsula founded by umayyad clan of Quraysh site of kaba original home of muhammad hajj destination	2
7771393291	Khadijah	First wife of the prophet Muhammad, who had worked for her as a trader.	3
7771393292	Muhummad	prophet with revelations	4
7771393293	Quran (Koran)	recitation of the revelations of the prophet muhammad	5
7771393294	ali	cousin and son in last of muhammad on of the orthodox caliphs focus for shia	6
7771393295	Hijrah	Muhammad's migration from Mecca to (Yathrib) Medina	7
7771393296	Ummah	The worldwide Muslim community	8
7771393297	zakat	Tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims	9
7771393298	ramadan	Islamic month of religious observance requiring fasting from dawn to sunset	10
7771393299	5 Pillars of Islam	faith, prayer, alms, fasting, pilgrimage	11
7771393300	Abu Bakr	First caliph of Islam after the death of Muhammad	12
7771393301	Sunnis	Political and theological division within Islam; supported the Umayyads	13
7771393302	Shia Muslims	the 2nd largest denomination of Islam; Want a community	14
7771393303	mawali	Non-Arab converts to Islam	15
7771393304	Jizya	- tax that people of the book/non muslims pay	16
7771393305	Dhimmi	Non-Muslim under Islamic rule; protected and restricted	17
7771393306	Hadiths	Traditions of the prophet Muhammad	18
7771393307	Umayyads	Members of the Sunni dynasty of caliphs that ruled a Muslim empire from 661 to 750	19
7771393308	Abbasids	A dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from A.D. 750 to 1258.	20
7771393309	Wazir	chief administrative official under the abbasid empire	21
7771393310	dhorrs	arab sailing vessels w/ triangular or lateen sails	22
7771393311	ayans	the wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of abbasid rule	23
7771393312	Idol worship	to worship a statue or symbol	24
7771393313	Ka'ba	most revered shrine in preislamic arabia in mecca	25