s.studies vocab chapter 4
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- calligraphy
- decoitive writting
- arabesque
- pattern of curved shapes and lines resembling flowers or vines
- urban
- having to do with a city or cities
- treaty
- written aggrement between countries or people
- minaret
- tower used to call Muslims to prayer
- solcial mobility
- ability to rise in society
- Ibn Khaldun
- wrote a history of the world that tried to explain the rise and fall of dynasties
- polygamy
- marriage to more than one sprouse
- Abu al- Abbas
- was a ruthless man known as the blood spiller
- Ibn Rushd
- the greatest philosopher who explored greek ideas
- IbnSina
- the greatest muslim doctor was a persian physician who wrote many books on medicine and philosophy
- dynasty
- family that holds political power through many generations
- sultan
- muslim ruler
- caliphate
- goverment ruled by a caliph
- letter of credit
- written record by one bank that allows a ;person to take money out of another bank
- astrolabe
- instrument designed to measure and plot the postion of stars
- souk
- marketplace in North Africa and the Middle East
- madrasa
- muslim religious school
- Sharia
- Islamic law code ; literally
- imam
- a muslim religious leader
- textile
- woven frabic