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| Place of Muslim public worship. |
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| One who calls the faithful to prayer (the crier) at the proper times from the minaret of the mosque. |
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| The tower beside many mosques from which the muezzin calls out the times of prayer. |
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| The book revealed through the prophet Muhammad. Holy scripture of Islam. |
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| An adherent to the faith, one who has made the submission to God. |
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| "Flight" or "Emigration" of Muhammad to Yathrib (Medina) to teach. It also marks the first year of the Muslim calendar. |
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| Believers in one God who predated Muhammad. |
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| Idolatry, putting anything else in the place of god: the ultimate and unforgivable sin. |
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| Traditions of what the Prophet Muhammad did or said, which, in Islamic law and traditional scholarship, are believed divinely inspired and have great authority, together with the Qur'an, in establishing orthodox teaching and practice. |
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| The confession of faith, prayer five times a day, giving alms to the poor, fasting in the month of Ramadan, and the hajj. |
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| The month of the Islamic calendar during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown. |
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| Messenger of God, God's appointed spokesperson. |
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| A trained Muslim teacher and preacher. |
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| The seat atop a short flight of steps in a mosque in which the imam delivers sermons. |
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| The niche indicating the direction of Mecca in a mosque. |
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| A mosque large enough to hold the entire population of a community, designated as the place for its Friday noon service. |
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| In Islam, holy war; also allegorical of the spiritual struggle. |
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| Leader of Islam regarded as successor of Muhammad in his capacity as temporal ruler of the faithful. |
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| The Conference of the Birds |
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| Most famous islamic mysticism book, allegorical. |
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| An early rationalist school of Muslim thought. |
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| The immensely influential school of Muslim theology that emphasizes that the ways of God are beyond human understanding; human knowledge of God, it says, can only be based on revelation. |
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| The majority body of Muslims, who stress sunna and consensus. |
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| The body of established Islamic faith, morals, and practice, established by the consensus of jurists and the faithful. |
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| The "party" of Ali; the minority, traditionally believe that Islam should be headed by a divinely guided Imam who is a hereditary successor of the Prophet through Ali, Muhammad's cousin. |
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| "Guided one". A teacher who will come just before the Day of Judgement to restore true religion and righteousness. |
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| The first month of the Muslim calendar, occassion of the Shi'ite festival which commemorates the death of Husayn, the third Shi'a Imam and the most worthy and tragic of all. |
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| Majority of Shi'ites who accept the first twelve Imam in the line of Ali, believing the twelfth went into hiding and will return as the Mahdi, or messianic savior, who will establish a paradisal rule on Earth right before the end of the world and the judgement. |
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| Minority of Shi'ites that believe the seventh is the hidden one. Ismailism has incorporated many esoteric elements into its beliefs. |
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| In Shi'ite Islam, a legal and religious teacher regarded as possessing very great learning and righteousness who can make independent religious judgements. "Sign of God." |
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| The mystical tradition in Islam. |
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| Sufi term for mystical absorption in the divine. |
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| A Sufi, or a mystical, Islamic spiritual teacher and guide |
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| They do mystical whirling dances with long white robes , believed to bride the material and spiritual worlds. |
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| A loose black robe that covers a woman from head to toe, revealing only her face. |
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