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| The Five Pillars of Islam |
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| Belief, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, Pilgrimage |
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The 5 Pillars of Islam: Belief |
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| You must state that Allah is the inly god and that Muhammad is his prophet. |
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The Five Pillars of Islam: Prayer |
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| You MUST pray towards Makkah 5 times a day. |
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The Five Pillars of Islam: Charity |
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| You must donate and share with the poor. |
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The Five Pillars of Islam: Fasting |
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| On the day of Ramadan, you may not eat any foods from dawn to dusk. |
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The Five Pillars of Islam: Pilgrimage |
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| You must visit Makkah once in your lifetime. |
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Abu Bakr A.D. 632 - A.D. 634 |
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Friend of Muhammad; early believer of Islam Faced 2 problems: 1. Flase prophets claim to be sucessors of Muhammad. 2. Sucession(break apart from something) of Arabic tribes after Muhammad's death Expanded the Muslim community into parts of Byzantine and Persian Empires. |
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Umar A.D. 634 - A.D. 644' "Fighter" |
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He expands the Muslim Empire to Arbia, Iraq, Western Persia, Syria, Palestine, and parts of North Africa. Creates tax system: $ goes to: Education, the needy, police department. Murdered by a non-muslim Persian slave. |
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Uthman A.D. 644 - A.D. 656 |
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Muhammad's son-in-law. Kind personality. First Years= peaceful BUT had financial problems because he didn't expand. Compilation of Quran 144 Chapters He only appointed Umayyads, his clan, to office. Murdered by Egyptian rebel, this stats a civil war. |
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| Area that threatened Islam. |
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| You are allowed to struggle or fight vs. people who oppress you. |
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| It was a crossroad for merchants and an important religious site for Islam. |
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| A low square buliding surrounded by statues of god and goddesses. |
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| Yathrib that was renamed Madinah which means "the city of the prophet". |
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| People that lived in tents and ate dried dates and nuts. |
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| Allah's prophet and the person who introduced of Islam. |
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| Green areas fed by underground areas |
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| A group of traveling merchants and animals. |
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| A book of writings that tell Muslims how to live and has moral teachings. |
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| It was located in Syria and was the capital of Islam when the Umayyads ruled from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750. |
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The leading population of Muslims in a country. |
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| An African city which became the leading learning center of Muslim teachings. |
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| The center of the Mongul Muslim empire. |
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| Successor or Messenger of God |
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| Belived that only the decendents of Muhammad should rule |
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| Accepted that Muhammad's friends had a right to rule and should be given to the best man. |
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| A Seljuk leader that named himself Sultan which means "holder of power" |
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| A person who spent their time praying and teaching others about Islam. |
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| A dynasty that came after the Umayyads. |
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The most famous sultan. He bulit many schools and mosques. He was also known for being a brilliant general. |
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| Muslim warriors that came from the mountains of North India |
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| The greatest Mogul ruler who brought peace and stability to India by treating everyone fairly. He allowed religions to be practiced. |
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| A famous buliding of a tomb for a mongul ruler, Shah Jahan's, wife. |
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| A great Muslim palace that was bulit in Spain in the 1300s. |
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| An Abbasid caliph that founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. |
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| A Muslim chemists who developed a categorizing substances as animals, mineral, or vegetable. He also wrote books for doctors about identifying diseases. |
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| Persian doctor who discovered that diseases spread from person to person. |
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| Persian poet who wrote parts of the Rubaiyat around 1100. |
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| Muslim historian wrote in 1372 how all civilizations rise, grow, and then fall. He was the first historian the study the effects of geography and climate on people. |
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| The top of mosques where criers calls believers to pray five times a day. |
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| Announcers who calls and reminds Muslim to pray. |
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