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Flashcards by Botros Bilal, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Botros Bilal
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| Question | Answer |
| Bedouin | !RAB DESERT NOMAD |
| Zoroastrianism | A religion which is base on the idea that there is a continuous fight between a God who represent good and who reprsents evil |
| Clan | A small group of families |
| Tribe | A group of clans |
| Age of ignorance | Islamic term for pre-lslamic life, a translaiton for the word Jahiliyyah |
| Mecca (sometimes Makka or Makkah) | City in modern Saudi Arabia where Muhammad lived and recived his revelation spirtual centre of the muslim word and foucs of the Hajj |
| Medina (Madina- al-Nabi | City of the prophet (Also Sometimes madina or madinah) Is a few hundred kilometres north of mecca, the prohet mudammad migrated there in 622CE |
| Akhira | Life After Death. |
| Allah | the God - affirms that there is only one God. |
| Caliph | the four successors of Muhammad - ’rightly guided’; ‘defenders of the |
| Five Pillars: | foundation of faith - confessions of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage. |
| Hadith | recorded traditions which maintain sayings/examples (Sunnah) of Muhammad. |
| Haram | those things that are forbidden. |
| Islam | ‘submission’ to the will of God; a further meaning is ‘peace’. |
| Jurisprudence | the process/science of interpreting Qur’an and Hadith to arrive at a correct decision. |
| Ka’ba | located in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site; the Qur’an states that it was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael. |
| Mecca | birthplace of Muhammad-place of sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims. |
| Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim calendar when able adults undertake rigorous fasting. |
| Salat | prayer-five times daily which assists adherents over their whole day in submission to Allah. |
| Shahada | the first Pillar: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. |
| Shari’a | law that defines the path a Muslim must follow in life. |
| Sunnah | the acts and sayings of the Prophet; source of teaching after the Qur’an. |
| Sunni | ‘path’- the way of Muhammad; approximately 85% of Muslims are Sunni; accepts all four caliphs. |
| Shi’ia | ‘the party of Ali’; emphasis on suffering; specific system of law; majority of expression in Islam. |
| Tawaf | circling the Ka’ba during Hajj. |
| Tawhid | there is only one God and only this one God can be worshipped; pivotal belief of Islam. |
| Ummah | the universal community of Islam. |
| Zakat | a tax to provide for the needs of the poor and needy; usually 2.5% of a person’s income. |
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