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| "successor"; a religious and political leader |
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| recitation of Allah's 99 names |
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| "Extinction"; sense of loss of self in mystical experience |
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| "Recollection"; remembrance of an act or saying of Muhammad |
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| "Flight"; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib(Medina) |
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| The day of sacrifice during the month of Hajj to recall the submission of Abraham |
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| the festival at the end of Ramadan during which the people feast and visit friends andd often the graves of ancestors. |
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| "Struggle"; spreading Islamic belief and heroic self-sacrifice |
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| "Cube"; square shrine in the center of the great mosque of Mecca |
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| decorated niche in a mosque that points the direction to mecca |
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| tower used by chanter to call people to prayer |
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| chanter who calls people to prayer |
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| person who submits to Allah |
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| direction that muslims pray |
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| God's words as revealed to and recited by Muhammad |
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| minority branch of islam that believes the genuine successors of Muhammad descended from his son-in-law Ali |
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| minority branch of islam that believes the genuine successors of Muhammad descended from his son-in-law Ali |
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| devotional movements in Islam |
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| majority branch of islam. do not believe in the succession of Ali's descendants |
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