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Ch.13
The Islamic World
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History
Undergraduate 1
11/21/2009

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madrasa
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An Islamic college of higher learning
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Ramadan
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The month each year when Muslims must fast during daylight hours
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Sufi
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A mystic tradition within Islam that encompasses a diverse range of beliefs and practices desiccated to Divine Love and the cultivation of the elements of the Divine within the individual human being.
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Shi'ite
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The minority of Muslims who trace their beliefs from the caliph Ali who was assassinated in 661 CE.
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Córdoba
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a model multicultural city embracing Arabs, Berbers, Spanish Christian converts to Islam, and native Jews
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Reconquista
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The Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims from 1000 to 1492.
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Saladin
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a Sunni Kurd who is well-known in the West for his battles with the Crusaders.
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sultans
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Rulers who have almost complete sovereignty over a certain domain without claiming the title of caliph.
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Mamluks
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slave soldiers who converted to Islam, and became a powerful military caste./ The only Islamic dynasty to withstand the Mongols. They were great patrons of scholars, who excelled in history, biography, astronomy, mathematics and medicine.
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Saljuqs
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the first major Turkish dynasty of Islam. They were a steppe clam who settled in Transoxiana and became avid Sunnis.
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Timur
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a Mongol conquerer, whose campaigns were renowned for their brutality. He left behind destruction and chaos in the Islamic world.
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Deccan
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Large plateau with varying terrain that constitutes most of southern India.
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Urdu-Hindi
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A language that combines Persian-Arabic and native Indian elements. Urdu is the Muslim version of the Language, and Hindi is the Hindu version.
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