Mulsim World (Unit 2) Vocab

Hijrah

Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Yathrib (Mdeina)

Five Pillars

Five duties all Muslim’s must carry out.

What happened after Muhammad’s death?

Conflict over who should be the new caliph.

Who where the rightly guided caliphs?

All people who had know Muhammad including Abu-Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali.

How where conquered people treated?

Muslims allowed conquered people to follow their own religion because te Qur’an forbade forced conversion of “people of the book”.

Muslim class system

four social classes

Role of Women

The shari’a gave Muslim women specific legal rights concerning marriage, family, and property. Thus, Muslim women had more economic and property rights than European, Indian, and Chinese women of the same time period.

House of Wisdom

a center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800s

calligraphy

the art of beautiful handwriting

Why and what were the astronomy advances of the time?

A correct lunar calendar was need to mark religious periods such as the month of Ramadan and the month of the hajj. Studying the skies helped fix the locations of cities so that worhsipers could face toward Mecca as they prayed. It also helped guide trading.

Who conquered Constantinople?

Mehmed II

Suleyman the Lawgiver

Selim’s son, who under his control, helped achieve the Ottoman Empire to reach its peak size.

What were some results of cultural blending?

language, religion and ethical systems, styles of government, racial or ethnic blending, and arts and architecture

What were the effect of the Battle of Chaldrian?

The Ottomans defeated the Safavids and a border was set between the two empires which still stands today!

Shah Abbas

He helped create a Safavid culture and golden age that drew from the best of the Ottoman, Perisan, and Arab worlds.