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Chapter 13
The Islamic World 1000-1500
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History
Undergraduate 1
11/24/2009

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Madrasa
Definition
*an Islamic college of learning
*expressed Ulama's power and fixity as a class
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Ramadan
Definition
*a month each year when Muslims must fast during daylight hours
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Sufi
Definition
*a mystic tradition in Islam
*thought of individual self and realized the Divine unity
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Shi'ite
Definition
*twelvers was majority
*looked for intercession on the Day of Judement
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Cordoba
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*grandeur of Spanish Islamic culture visible there
*Abd al-Rahman I founder of Spanish culture there
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Reconquista
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*Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims
*from 1000-1492
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Saladin
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*Sunni Kurd, known in W for his battles
*founded the madrasas to teach and promote the Sunni law
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Sultan
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*rulers w/ almost complete sovereignty w/o being caliph
*captured during childhood and trained as slave-body guards
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Mamluks
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*only Islamic Dynasty to w/stand the Mongol invasions
*succession was survival of the fittest
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Saljuqs
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*became typically the most zealous of Sunni Muslims
*Muhammad Al-Ghazzali was a Muslim religious thinker
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Timur
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*goal was conquest
*campaigns were renowned for brutality
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Deccan
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*large plateau w/ varying terrain
*is most of Southern India
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Urdu-Hindi
Definition
*language combining Persian-Arabic and Native Indian elements
*Urdu-Muslim version
*Hindu-Hindu version
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