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REL 112
WESTERN RELIGIONS - ISLAM
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2012
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Term
Ka'ba
 Definition
Housed idols that Muhammed destroyed
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Allah
 Definition
a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "the God"
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Quraysh
 Definition
the dominant tribe of Mecca upon the appearance of the religion of Islam
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Hakam
 Definition
Judge or referee.
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Muhammad
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Founder of islam, born in Mecca
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Yathrib
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historically significant for being Muhammad's home after the Hijrah. Before the advent of Islam, the city is known now as Medina, was personally renamed by Muhammad
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