A | B |
Bedoins | Arabian Nomads |
Define Monotheism | Belief in one God |
Mecca | City in Saudi Arabia |
Allah | Muslin God God of Muslems |
Muhammad | Founder of Islam |
HIjrah | Journey from Mecca to Medina |
Name the five pillars of islam | Faith, prayer Alms, Fasting, Pilgrimage |
Faith | Belief in God ( Allah) |
Define Prayer | Pary 5 times a day |
Define Alms | Giving to the poor |
Define Fasting | Do not eat from sunrise to sunset during Ramadon |
Qur’an | Holy book of Islam |
Sunni | Followers of ABU Baker Follow the teachings of Muhammad |
Shiite | Followers of ALI |
Shariah | Code of Laws |
Links Judaism and Christianity | Profits, Same Gods, Geographical area, Judgement day, Heaven and Hell, Holy Book. |
Define Profits | Messengers of God/Moses – Gabriel – Jesus |
Define Gods | Allah Yaweh God |
Define Jusdgement day | End of the world |
Upper Class | Born Muslim |
Second Class | Those who converted to Musllim This class pays high taxes than the upper class but lower than other non-muslim people. |
Third class | Protected people includes christians and Jews (people of the book) they pay more taxes |
Lower class | Slaves that were all non-muslim |
The role of women | 1. Obediant to their husbands. Women better off than European women, |
Rights that women had | legal rights concerning marriage, family and property more than european women |
Who gave the women rights | shariah |
What rights did the Quran give to women? | care of widows allowed divorce and protected inheritance |
Difference between poor and rich wives | Poor had to work in the fields alongside their husbands. Rich were educated and supervised the house. |
Sunnis | Majority of muslims,Follow the first four caliphs,Followed the practices of Muhammad |
Shiites | Reject the first three caliphs and follow the forth coliph ALi who was Muhhads son in law becasue they feel he was closest to Muhammad |
Literature | 1001 arabian knights |
Name the three stories from 1001 arabian knights | Aladdin, Ali Babba Sinbad the Sailor |
Al Razi? | Dr. That rote an encyclopedia of medicine called the Comprehensive book the Europeans copied it |
What was the comprehensive book? | Al Raze put down everything he knew into this book. |
AL-Khwarizmi | Invented a technique called al-jabr or algebra |
Ibn Al-Haytahm | Wrote book Optics that revolutionized ideas about vision, his ideas used to develop for microscopes and telescopes. |
Astrolabe | Used to help sailors navigate Navigational tool that used the stars |
Define Optics | Study of the eyes |
What group is Abu | Sunni |
What group Ali | Shiite |
Founder of the Muslim religion | Muhammad |
What is Calligraphy | Art of using handwriting Artful writing |