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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2010

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caliph 
Definition
"successor"; a religious and political leader 
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dhikr
Definition
a devotional remembrance of allah through the recitation of his 99 names and other devotional practices 
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fana
Definition
"extinction"; the sense of loss of self in mystical experience 
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hadith
Definition
"recollection"; remembrance of an act or saying of Muhammad 
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Haji
Definition
pilgrimage to Mecca
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Hijra
Definition
"flight"; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib 
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Id al-Adha
Definition
the Day of Sacrifice during the month of the Hajj when an animal is sacrificed to recall the submission of Abraham 
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Id al-Fitr
Definition
the festival at the end of the month of Ramadan during which people feast and visit friends and often the graves of ancestors 
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imam
Definition
a religious leader; specifically one of the hereditary successors of Muhammad, venerated in Shiite Islam. 
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Islam
Definition
"submission"; the Muslim religion and the community of believers who have submitted themselves to Allah. 
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jihad
Definition
"struggle"; the ideals both of spreading Islamic belief and of heroic self-sacrifice 
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Kabah
Definition
"cube"; the square shrine at the center of the great mosque of Mecca
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Khadijah
Definition
first wife of Muhammad
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mihrab
Definition
the decorated niche inside a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca
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minaret
Definition
a tower used by a chanter to call people to prayer 
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mosque
Definition
a Muslim place of worship 
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muezzin
Definition
a chanter who calls people to prayer
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Muslim
Definition
a person who submits to Allah
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qiblah
Definition
the direction toward Mecca; the direction toward which Muslims pray 
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Qur'an
Definition
"recitation"; God's words as revealed to and recited by Muhammad; an authorized edition of the written words that appeared after Muhammad's death
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ramadan
Definition
the month of fasting; the 9th month of the Muslim calendar 
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Sharia
Definition
"path"; the whole body of Islamic law, which guides a Muslim's life
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Shiite
Definition
a minority branch of Islam, which holds that Muhammad's genuine successors descended from 
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Shiite
Definition
a minority branch of Islam, which holds that Muhammad's genuine successors descended from his son-in-law Ali
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Sufism
Definition
a group of devotional movements in Islam
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Sunni
Definition
the majority branch of Islam, which holds that genuine succession from Muhammad did not depend o hereditary descent from his son-in-law Ali
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sura
Definition
a chapter of the Qur'an
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