Chapter 9 - The Worlds of Islam

Mecca

Mecca

________ was the site of the Kaaba, Arabia's most renowned religious sanctuary, which featured depictions of approximately 360 deities and was a popular pilgrimage destination despite being off the main long- distance commerce routes.

Allah

Submission to ________ (the word "Muslim "literally means "one who submits) "was the main requirement of Muslims and the only way to live a God- conscious life in this world and to enter Paradise after death.

Abbasid caliph al-Mamun

a poet and scholar with a passion for foreign learning, founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in 830 as a study and translation center.

China

Confucianism and Daoism from ________, Hinduism and Buddhism from India, Greek philosophy from the Mediterranean area, and Zoroastrianism from Persia Most of the main religious or cultural traditions of the second- wave era came from the core of existing civilizations.

Arab

The Quran's message attacked not just ________ religion's ancient polytheism and Mecca's social inequalities, but also ________ society's entire tribe and clan structure, which was prone to conflict, bickering, and violence.

Arab troops

________ attacked the Byzantine and Persian Sassanid empires, the region's main powers, within a few years after Muhammad's death in 632.

Byzantine Empire

The ________, heir to the Roman world, and the Sassanid Empire, heir to the imperial traditions of Persia, were on the fringe of two established and opposing civilizations at the time.

Abbasid Empire

Baghdad, which became the capital of the ________ in 756, quickly expanded into a magnificent city with a population of half a million people.

Muhammad

________ lost his parents as a child, was raised by an uncle, and worked as a shepherd to support himself.

Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

________, who was born into a Quraysh household in Mecca, was the trigger for those events and the foundation of this new faith.

Arabian Peninsula

Bedouins, nomadic Arabs who herded their sheep and camels in seasonal migrations, had long inhabited the middle part of the ________.

globe of Islamic civilization

The ________ was not only a network of faith, but also a vast marketplace where goods, technologies, food products, and ideas were freely exchanged.

Bedouins

nomadic Arabs who herded their sheep and camels in seasonal migrations, had long inhabited the middle part of the Arabian Peninsula

Stuggle/jihad

the sixth pillar

Greater jihad

inward personal effort by each believer against greed and selfishness, a spiritual strive toward living a God-conscious life

Umma

form of "super tribe," yet it was very different from Arab society's conventional tribes. Membership was based on faith rather than birth, which allowed society to grow quickly

Baghdad

capital of the Abbasid Empire in 756, quickly expanded into a magnificent city with a population of half a million people