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a supreme religious leader of the Shiites |
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A piece of territory that is surrounded by another political unit of which is not a part |
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the slaughter and/or forced removal of one ethnic group from its homes and lands by another ethnic group |
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a bounded piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state |
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the boundaries between the world's major faiths |
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boundaries within a single major faith |
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the name given to several states in the muslim world |
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the islamic holy war (in this chapter specifically against the West in general, and the U.S. in particular) |
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religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy |
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the system of islamic law, called Qu'ranic law; based on legal precedence |
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