Islam Terms
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- Allah
- the supreme God
- Umma
- arabic word for community
- Caliphate
- the sucessor
- Sultan
- the one ruler
- Shah Abbas
- the man who brought back glory to ancient persia
- Surah
- chapters of the quran
- Abu Bakr
- the father in law of muhammad
- Kabba
- the temple where abraham went to worship
- Seljuk Turks
- a civilization taht dominated the fertile crescent and they adopted islam as ther religion
- Shah
- the king of safavid
- Muslim
- the followers of islam
- Hadith
- oral sangs of Muhammad
- Bedouins
- nomadic herders
- Ottoman Empire
- turkish speeking nomads
- Umayyad
- a dynasty of sunni caliphs
- Mahdi
- expected savior of muslim beliefs
- Quran
- the sacred text of islam
- Sufis
- muslim mystics who meditate, fast and perform sacrafices
- Mosque
- the temple of islams
- Muhammad
- the greatest and last prophet
- Medina
- a sacred city
- Abbasid
- the man who founded the abbasid dynatsy
- Ulama
- a body of mullahs
- Mecca
- a sacred city
- Safavid Empire
- an empire that controlled iran, turkey and georgia
- Janissaries
- the ottoman army
- Shiites
- people who believed that the son in law of muhammad should've been the caliph
- Jihad
- a struggle in Gods' service
- Mullahs
- people trained in law and doctrine
- Sunna
- a community of Muslims
- Sunni
- people who beleived that any good muslim can be the caliph
- Hijra
- Muhammads joiurney to Mecca
- Sulieman the Magnificient
- a great ruler, the caliph of all muslims
- Sharia
- text that interprets the mesages of the Quran
- Heretics
- someone against you