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Islam
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
04/21/2010

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Term
Islam
Definition
Submission to Allah
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Muslim
Definition
One who submits
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Mecca
Definition
Islam Holy City, in Saudi Arabia
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Ka'bah
Definition
Square building in Mecca believed by Muslims to be the house Ibrahim erected for God and the focus of Muslim worship
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Muezzin
Definition
One that calls Muslims to worship
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Hijra
Definition
Muhammad's emigration with his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622.
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Mecca
Definition
City where islam originated
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Ramadan
Definition
A month of fasting; the 9th month of the Muslim calendar
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caliph
Definition
successor to the prophet, The civil and religious ruler of a Muslim state
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sura
Definition
chapters of the Quran
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imam
Definition
prayer leader
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jihad
Definition
the ideals both of spreading Islamic belief and of heroic self-sacrifice
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Shiite
Definition
From the Arabic "party;" one who believes that authority passed from the Prophet Muhammad to his lineal descendants
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Sunni
Definition
The majority branch of Islam, which holds that genuine succession from Muhammad did not depend on hereditary descent from his son-in-law Ali
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Night of Ascension
Definition
Muhammad ascended through 7 heavens into Divine Proximity, met former prophets and teachers, Adam and Jesus, saw paradise and hell and received great blessings from the Divine Presence
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Shari’ah
Definition
sets the pattern for individual actions and bonds individuals into a coherent, divinely regulated, peaceful community
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ulama
Definition
Legal experts who study the Qur’an and Sunnah
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fatwa
Definition
make authoritative statements concerning how they are to be interpreted
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fana
Definition
total annihilation in the Beloved
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barakah
Definition
sacred blessing or power
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Kufr
Definition
ungratefulness to God, unbelief
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Shirk
Definition
associating anything else with divinity except God
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5 pillars
Definition
1. believing and professing the unity of God, 2. Performance of continual round of prayers, 3. charity; 2.5% annually 4. Fasting 5. pilgrimage to Mecca
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ijtihad
Definition
reasoned interpretation
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Shahadah
Definition
“There is no god but Allah, and M. is the messenger of Allah”
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