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Islam Vocabulary
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/18/2007

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People who submit
Definition
Muslims
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kabah
Definition
cube
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islam
Definition
submission or surrender
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Hijra (or Hegira)
Definition
Flight or migration
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ummah
Definition
Muslim community following the qur'an
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masjid
Definition
arabic for mosque, place of prostration
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muezzin
Definition
chanter
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minaret
Definition
tower
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adhan
Definition
call to prayer
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mihrab
Definition
special arched niche in a mosque, indictating meccas direction
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qiblah
Definition
direction of mecca/prayer
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Yawm al-Jum’ah
Definition
day of assembly (friday)
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kutbah
Definition
two part sermon of friday prayer
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shahadah
Definition
witness (muslim creed)
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salat
Definition
five ritual daily prayers
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zakat
Definition
charity to the poor, annual tax on all possesions
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sawm
Definition
fasting during ramadan
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hajj
Definition
pilgrimage to mecca
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shirk
Definition
idolatry
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ramadan
Definition
ninth month, month of fasting
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Qur'an
Definition
recitation, holy scriptures, revelations of muhammad
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sura
Definition
chapters in the qur' an
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hadith
Definition
recollections or narratives concerning words and deeds of muhammad
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sunna
Definition
tradition, imply qur'an and hadiths as collective authority
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sunni
Definition
majority tradition of islam stress practical democratic leadership, schools,
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shiite
Definition
minority factin of islam, stress hereditary charismatc leadership
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sufi
Definition
islamic mystic, extiction of self, loving union with allah
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jihad
Definition
strive/strugge, holy war
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imam
Definition
religious leader, shiite islam
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caliph
Definition
practical democratic leader of ummah, in sunni islam
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dhikr
Definition
devotional remembracnce of allah through recitation of 99 names
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fana
Definition
extinction of self for sufies
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shariah
Definition
path, refers to laws guiding believers life
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theocracy
Definition
all life organized under the rule of god
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