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02/11/2011

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Term
610 CE
Definition

Muhammad's first Revelation

continued until 632 CE

Term
619
Definition
Abu Talib and Khdija died
Term
622
Definition

Hijra to Yathrib (Medina)

Mohammad's exile from Mecca, travel to Medina

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Medina
Definition
First Islamic state and community
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627-630
Definition

Trench besigement of Mecca by Muhammad.

630 Mecca surrendered to Muhammad

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Quran
Definition

Basis of Islamic society, arranged by deminishing length

Believed to be God's words and final intervention

God is one, merciful, and a stern judge

Divided into 114 Suras or chapters

Can only be read in Arabic

Believed that it fixes the Covenant with the Jews, and Christ as just a prophet, not the Son of God

Term

Three Caliphal Houses

 

Definition

1st Rashidun (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali- Ruled from Medina knew Muhammad)

2nd Umayyad (ruled from Damascus)

3rd Abbasids (ruled from Baghdad)

Term
Rashidun
Definition
Considered the greatest caliph because they knew Muhammad personally.
Term
Uthman
Definition
killed by discontent Muslims because he gave out political favors to his family
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Ali
Definition
Challeneged by Mu'awiyya because Ali did not bring justice to Uthman's murderers.
Term
Kharijites
Definition
First Islamic Sect. Were at first followers of Ali until he negotiated unsuccessfully with Mu'awiyya. Believed Ali gave up his right to rule by negotiating with his enemy Murdered Ali in 661
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Mu'awiyya
Definition
started the Umayyad caliph, challeneged Ali
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Umayyad
Definition

Islam is exclusively for Arabs. Both non Arabs and non Muslims had to pay taxes. Many tribes were hostile to the Damascus rulers. led to the Abbasid revolution 749-750

Society was based on Byzantium society.

Term
Abbasids
Definition
Inclusive of non Arab Muslims, society was cosmopolitan, based on Persian imperial tradition. Preserved Greek knowledge. Fell to the Turkic Mongols from the east in 1258
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Al-Mamun Abbasid Caliph
Definition
created House of Wisdom. collected Christian scholars to translate Greek knowledge to Arabic. Wanted to learn what made the Romans and Greeks powerful, and learn logic to strengthen Islamic theology, which was questioned by Christian scholars
Term
Caliph
Definition
Successor to the Prophet Muhammad, idea of caliphate ended in 1924 with the fall of the Ottoman Empire
Term
Mongol-Turks
Definition
Terrorists from China, would destroy cities and move on. conquered Abbasids in 1258
Term
Sharia
Definition

Guidance/God's way for Human kind. Part of the legal system for Muslims to live. Belief in one God, prayer, Charity, Fasting, Pilgrimage. Social obligations. Eventually replaced by European code of law

 

Term
Sources of Sharia
Definition

1. Quaran 90% is prophetic storices, while 10% is law

2. Sunna- customs of Muhammad

3. instrument of analogy, analyze the Quran and Sunna then decide

4. Consensus of the Islamic society

Term
Sunna
Definition

Customs of Muhammad

 

 

Term
Hadith
Definition

reports of Muhammad's customs (sunna) in the forms of his words, and actions

texts- the actual reports of his actions or words

Chain of authority linked texts to the Prophet, A way to trace the Hadith to a legitamate source

Term
Shia Ali (Party of Ali)
Definition

Minority of the Muslim world 10-12% gathered in The Gulf

Believe Muhammad left Ali and his bloodline as successors at Ghadir Khumm

Use the title of Imam to mean leaders of Shia, traced back to Fatima and Ali

Believe Sunni caliphs were illegitamate usurpers.

Ali was the only Imam allowed to lead the Caliphate, the rest were inprisoned.

Term
12th Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi
Definition
The 12th Imam disappeared from this world, did not die, went to another dimension with God. Shia believe he will return as the Messiah, ushering in a golden age and vanquish evil. Will occur when Islam is in a degraded state as Muhammad al-Mahdi
Term
Mujtahids (Ayatollah)
Definition
top ranking scholars, each Muslim can choose what Mujtahid to follow from anywhere in the world.
Term
Sufism
Definition

Understand God through feelings, not through knowledge or intellect.

Non conformist to Islam's traditions

 

Term
Stages of Sufism
Definition

1 Asceticism- denial of bodily desire

Hasan al-Basri (Basra 700 AD)

Fear of God

2. Devotion to God Love of God

Rabi Basri (800 AD)

3. Union with God

Mansur al-Hallaj (900 AD Baghdad)

God is in everything,

we are apart of God thus we are God

Killed for Harasey

4. Brotherhoods/Orders Institutionalization of Sufism 1100 AD

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