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Islam
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Term | Definition |
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Environment | Air,water, and land in which people and animals live |
Create | To make something exist |
Issue | Problem or object that people discuss |
Interpret | To explain the meaning of something |
Decline | Gradual decrease in the quality or importance of something |
Monitor | To careful watch something |
Muhammad | like Judaism and Christianity |
Oasis | an oasis is a fertile place in the desert where a spring or well provides a water supply |
Nomadic | one was a nomadic life, in which people move from place to place with no fixed home |
sedentary | or settled life in oasis towns or trade centers |
Khadija | at 25 he married a wealthy widowed merchant named Khadija |
Qur'an | the holy book |
mosque | is a Muslim house of worship |
alms | are goods or money given to the poor or neddy |
fasting | not eating or drinking for a period of time |
pilgrimage | is a journey to a sacred place or shrine |
Abu Bakr | as their leader he was given the title of caliph or successor. |
caliph | Successor |
umar ibn al-khattab | took Islam to nearby lands |
jihad | Holy struggle |
khalid ibn al-walid | made the following promise |
sunnis | are the majority Islamic sect |
shiites | Form the largest minority Islamic sect |