AP World History AMSCO Chapter 8 Vocabulary Flashcards

8008455503	abbasid	relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in baghdad from 750 to 1258	0
8008455504	baghdad	a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris	1
8008455505	muhammad	the arab founder of islam; held by muslims to be the chief prophet of god; was born in mecca	2
8008455506	bedouin	a nomadic arab of the desert	3
8008455507	polygyny	when a man has more than one wife	4
8008455508	allah	the supreme being; god	5
8008455509	mecca	the birthplace of muhammad; muslims face in the direction of mecca when they pray, and expected to go on a pilgrimage to mecca once in their lifetime	6
8008455510	quran (koran)	the islamic sacred book; believed to be the word of god as dictated to muhammad by the archangel gabriel and written down in arabic	7
8008455511	medina	the old arab or non-european quarter of a north african town	8
8008455512	hegira	the journey that muhammad and his followers took when they left from mecca to medina in AD 622	9
8008455513	ka'aba	small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that contains a sacred black stone and is the goal of islamic pilgrimage and the point toward which muslims turn in praying	10
8008455514	five pillars	core set of obligations that the muslims follow 1. believing in one god 2. praying 5 times daily 3. giving alms to the poor 4. fasting during the month of ramadan 5. make a pilgrimage to mecca once in a lifetime	11
8008455515	jihad	a struggle of fight against the enemies of islam	12
8008455516	ramadan	the ninth month of the muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset	13
8008455517	shariah	islamic code of law	14
8008455518	caliph	the chief muslim civil and religious leader, reguarded as the successor of muhammad	15
8008455519	ali	muhammad's cousin and son-in-law	16
8008455520	sunnis	one of the two main branches of islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from shia in its understanding of the sunna and in its acceptance of the first three caliphs	17
8008455521	shia	one of the two main branches of islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three sunni caliphs and regards ali, the fourth caliph, as muhammad's first true successor	18
8008455522	umayyad dynasty	a member of the dynasty that ruled at damascus 661-750, claiming descent from omayya, cousin of the grandfather of muhammad the prophet	19
8008455524	imam	the person who leads prayers in a mosque	20
8008455525	feamle infanticide	the intentional killing of newborn girls	21
8008455526	dowries	property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage	22
8008455527	hijab	a head covering worn in public by some muslim women	23