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| a covered, skylit interior street with stalls for ships along each side |
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| a supreme ruler in the Muslim world who inherits his title |
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| way station in the desert where caravans could spend the night undercover within protecting walls |
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| a raised platform in a mosque from which the muezzins (declaimers) chant in unison in response to the imam's (preacher) prayers |
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| one of the world's major monotheistic religions in which supreme deity is Allah and his chief prophet is Mohammed |
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| the sacred book of Islam containing the collected revelations about Allah communicated through Mohammed, his chief prophet |
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| a college compromising of dormitories and class rooms often shaped like our quads, with a garden and a pool in the center |
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| Birthplace of the prophet Mohammed and hence the holy city of Islam |
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| the tower on a mosque form which the Muezzin calls the faithful to pray |
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| the raised pulpit in a mosque |
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| an archway or apse in a mosque which indicates the direction of Mecca |
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| a Muslim temple or place of worship |
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| an adherent of the Islamic faith |
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| old name for Iran. One extended from east end of Mediterranean sea east to Indus river |
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| a mystic symbol in the form of a six pointed star, star of David |
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| the Biblical temple constructed by Solomon according to God's direction (ratios exemplify universal harmony) |
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| a 100 foot long scroll of architectural drawings for Islamic vaults and patterns thought to have been drawn around the end of the 15th century |
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| (cube) contains the Sacred Black Stone |
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