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Chapter 9: Islam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the ruler of an Arabic tribe | sheikh |
| the Arabic word for "God" | Allah |
| the holy book of Islam | Quran |
| a person who practices Islam | Muslim |
| the journey of Muhammad and his followers to Medina in 622 | Hijrah |
| a nomadic Arab who lives in the Arabian, Syrian, or North African deserts | bedouin |
| a pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the requirements of Islam | hajj |
| the basis of the Islam faith, including pilgrimage, fasting, prayer, belief, and charity | Five Pillars of Islam |
| an Islamic law code that provided Muslims with laws to help regulate their daily lives | shari'ah |
| a spiritual and political leader of Islam | caliph |
| meaning, "struggle in the way of God," often thought of as a holy war | jihad |
| the office of the caliph | caliphate |
| a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Ali as the rightly guided caliphs | Shia |
| A Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam | Sunni |
| a high government official in Muslim countries | vizier |
| meaning "holder of power," the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and Ottomans | sultan |
| a covered market in Islamic cities | bazaar |
| a gift of money paid at the time of marriage | dowry |
| an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the positions of stars | astrolabe |
| geometric patterns repeated over and over to completely cover a surface with decoration | arabesques |
| the tower of a mosque | minaret |
| the crier who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer from the minaret of a mosque | muezzin |
| he was the first caliph of Islam | Abu Bakr |
| the holiest shrine of Islam, which is located in Mecca | Kaaba |
| Muhammad received revelations from this angel | Gabriel |
| this was the first ruling dynasty in Islam | Umayyad |
| this dynasty defeated the Umayyads and took over the Islamic Empire | Abbasid |
| the Umayyads were overthrown by the Abbasids in this year | 750 |
| Muhammad made his trip from Mecca to Medina in this yeara | 622 |
| Muhammad returned to Mecca from Medina in this year | 630 |
| he was caliph during the golden age of the Abbasid Dynasty | Harun al-Rashid |
| the Umayyads favored people of this cultural group | Arab |
| this dynasty was the Muslim group in Egypt | Fatimids |
| the Seljuk Turks captured Baghdad in this year | 1055 |
| this was a very important economic activity in the Arabian peninsula | trade |
| these are the Five Pillars of Islam | faith, charity, fasting, pilgrimage, and prayer |
| the Quran granted spiritual equality to these people | women |
| The Abbasid Dynasty took power from the Umayyads in this year | 750 |
| By 725, most of this European area had become a Muslim state | Spain |
| Date by which the Arabs had conquered all of the Persian Empire | 650 |
| Muslim mathematicians developed this type of math | algebra |
| The Abbasid capital was located here | Baghdad |
| The Umayyad capital was located here | Damascus |