History Islam

Nomadic desert dwellers

Bedouin

Greatest jewish philosopher in Islam

Maimon/Maimonides

Stories of Scheherazade

The Thousand & One Nights

The Thousand & One Nights

Stories of Scheherazade

Criticized for blending Aristotle’s and Plato’s vies with islam

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Lead Muslim side in the Battle of Tours

Tariq

Chapter in the Qur’an

Surah

Muslim

The one who submits

Migration from Mecca to Medina

Hijrah

Umma

Muslim religious community

Holy book of Muslims

Qur’an (Allah’s revelations)

Islamic house of worship

Mosque

Islamic holy month

Ramadan

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Hajj5

5 Pillars

Prayer, Faith, Alms (2.5% religious tax), Fasting, Pilgrimage

Scholar class concerned with learning the law

Ulama

Muhammah’s example

Sunna

Law of Qur’an and Sunna

Shari’a

Guy who does call to prayer from ____

Muezzin from minarets

Original Medina name

Yathrib

Muhammad’s first wife

Khadiga

The rightly-guided caliphs

Abu-Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali

A caliph’s rule

Caliphate

Umayyad Muslim capital

Damascus

Believed caliph had to be related to Muhammad

Shi’a - “party of Ali”

Caliph did not need to be related to Muhammad

Sunni - “follwers of Muhammad’s example”

Pursued life of poverty/spiritual devotion

Sufi

Type of Sufi that spins

Whirling DervishesAbd

Which Umayyad survived?

Abd al-Rahman

What did the Berbers create in southern Spain?

Al-Andalus

Abbasids’ captial

Baghdad

Letters of credit (check)

Sakk

Dynasty that started in North Africa and spread

Fatimid dynasty

People of the book

Jews, Christians, zoroastrians

First caliph of Abbasid’s dyansty

Abu Al Abbas

Wrote “The Comprehensive Book”

Al-Razi

Invented al-jabr

Al-Khwarizmi

Studied optics

Alhazen

Wrote “The Canon of Medicine”

Avicenna

Repeated geometric shapes

tessellation

Curved lines resembling florals

arabesque