Key Terms
1. Abbasid caliphate
2. Andalus, al-
3. Anatolia
4. Battle of Talas River
5. Bedouins
6. dhimmis
7. Ghazali, al-
8. hadiths
9. hajj
10. hijra
11. House of Wisdom
12. Ibn Battuta
13. Ibn Sina
14. Iimms
15. jihad
16. jizya
17. Kaaba
18. madrassas
19. Mecca
20. Mozarabs
21. Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
22. Muslim
23. Pillars of Islam
24. Polo, Marco
25. Rightly Guided Caliphs
26. Qur’an (Koran)
27. sharia
28. shaykhs
29. Sikhism
30. Sufis
31. Sultanate of Delhi
32. Timbuktu
33. ulama
34. Umayyad caliphate
35. umma
Answer each question in three or four sentences.
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What are the Five Pillars of Islam? You may list them.
Explain the difference between the greater and lesser forms of jihad.
What key elements identified a Shia follower of Islam?
In what ways did the experience of Islam in West Africa differ from its experience in Anatolia?
Answer each of the following questions in two or more sentences.
In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?Islam drew on an Arab identification of Allah with Yahweh (the Jewish god) and Arabian self-Identification as children of Abraham. The Quran denounced the prevailing social practices of an increasing prosperous Mecca, and sought a return to older values of Arabian tribal life. The message of the Quran also rejected the Arabian tribal clan structure, which was prone to war, feuding and violence. Instead the Quran sought to replace this structure with the Umma.
6. What does the Quran expect from those who followed his teachings?
How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?