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