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ISLAM BEGINS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Medina

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aka Yathrib; town northeast of Mecca; grew date palms whose fruit was sold to bedouins; became a refuge for Muhammad following light from Mecca (Hijra)..

Question 2: caliph

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The political and religious successor to Muhammad.

Question 3: ayan

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the wealthy, landed elite that emerged under the Abbasids.

Question 4: Allah

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The Arab term for the high god in pre-Islamic Arabia that was adopted by the followers of Muhammad and the Islamic faith.

Question 5: hadiths

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"traditions" of the prophet Muhammad; added to the Qur'an; form the essential writings of Islam.

Question 6: dhows

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Arab sailing vessels; equipped with lateen sails; strongly influenced European ship design.

Question 7: Muhammad

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Prophet of Islam; born c570 to Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh tribe in Mecca; raised by father's family; received revelations from Allah in 610 C.E. and thereafter; died in 632.

Question 8: Abbasid

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dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads in 750; their capital was at Baghdad.

Question 9: Shi'a

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aka Shi'ites; political and theological division within Islam; followers of Ali's.

Question 10: hajj

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a Muslim's pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca to worship Allah at the Ka'ba.

Question 11: bedouin

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nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula with a culture based on herding camels and goats; early converts to Islam.

Question 12: Copts

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Christian sects of Egypt; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule.

Question 13: Sunnis

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Political and theological division within Islam; supported the Umayyads.

Question 14: wazir

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chief administrative official under the Abbasids caliphate, initially recruited from Persian provinces of empire.

Question 15: Ramadan

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Islamic month of religious observance requiring fasting from dawn to sunset.

Question 16: Khadijah

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First wife of the prophet Muhammad, who had worked for her as a trader.

Question 17: Abu Bakr

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The first caliph or leader of the Muslim faithful elected after Muhammad's death in 632. Renown for his knowledge of the nomadic tribes who then dominated the Islamic community.

Question 18: Mecca

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City located in mountainous region along Red Sea in Arabian peninsula; founded by Umayyad cland of Quarysh; site of Ka'ba; original home of Muhammad; location of chief religious pilgrimage point in Islam.

Question 19: Umayyad

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clan of the Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca; clan established a dynasty under this title as rulers of Islam, 661 to 750.

Question 20: Ka'ba

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Most revered religious shrine in pre-Islamic Arabia; located in Mecca; focus of obligatory annual truce among Bedouin tribes; later incorporated as important shrine in Islam.

Question 21: jihads

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Struggles; often used for wars in defense of the faith, but also as a term to indicate personal quests for religious understanding.

Question 22: Damascus

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Syrian city that was capital of Umayyad caliphate.

Question 23: Uthman

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third caliph and member of the Umayyad clan; murdered by mutinous warriors returning from Egypt; death set off a civil war within Islam between followers of Ali and the Umayyad clan.

Question 24: Ridda wars

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wars following Muhammad's death; resulted in the defeat of rival prophets and some of larger clans; restored the unity of Islam.

Question 25: Ali

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cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; one of the orthodox caliphs; focus for Shi'a.

Question 26: Sasanian empires

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The dynasty that ruled Persia (contemporary Iran) in the centuries before the rise of Muhammad and teh early decades of Islamic expansion.

Question 27: Baghdad

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Abbasid capital, close to the old Persian capital of Ctesiphon.

Question 28: shaykhs

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leaders of tribes and clans within bedouin society; usually possessed large herds, several wives, and many children.