AP World History AMSCO Chapter 8 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 7813765447 | abbasid | relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in baghdad from 750 to 1258 | 0 | |
| 7813785152 | baghdad | a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris | 1 | |
| 7813799483 | muhammad | the arab founder of islam; held by muslims to be the chief prophet of god; was born in mecca | 2 | |
| 7813826843 | bedouin | a nomadic arab of the desert | 3 | |
| 7813833146 | polygyny | when a man has more than one wife | 4 | |
| 7813851168 | allah | the supreme being; god | 5 | |
| 7813872951 | 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 | |
| 7813888032 | 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 | |
| 7813924546 | medina | the old arab or non-european quarter of a north african town | 8 | |
| 7813935221 | hegira | the journey that muhammad and his followers took when they left from mecca to medina in AD 622 | 9 | |
| 7813992032 | 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 | |
| 7814066951 | 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 | |
| 7814139769 | jihad | a struggle of fight against the enemies of islam | 12 | |
| 7814149918 | ramadan | the ninth month of the muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset | 13 | |
| 7814170117 | shariah | islamic code of law | 14 | |
| 7814173206 | caliph | the chief muslim civil and religious leader, reguarded as the successor of muhammad | 15 | |
| 7814183870 | ali | muhammad's cousin and son-in-law | 16 | |
| 7814221977 | 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 | |
| 7814283457 | 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 | |
| 7814345441 | 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 | |
| 7814417591 | damascus | capital and likely the largest city in syria | 20 | |
| 7814429433 | imam | the person who leads prayers in a mosque | 21 | |
| 7814439501 | feamle infanticide | the intentional killing of newborn girls | 22 | |
| 7814461598 | dowries | property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage | 23 | |
| 7814503781 | hijab | a head covering worn in public by some muslim women | 24 |