2020 Review

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  1. 3. the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world.
  2. 7. a black box that is a shrine to Abraham
  3. 9. the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime.
  4. 10. a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate
  5. 13. a historical term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection.
  6. 14. a person involved in trade or commerce
  7. 15. a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
  8. 18. the Muslim profession of faith (“there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”).
  9. 22. an Arab market or marketplace; a bazaar.
  10. 23. fasting from dawn until dusk during Ramadan, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
  11. 24. an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria
  12. 25. the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form.
  13. 27. the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
  14. 28. the round city
  15. 30. the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia
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  1. 1. a nomadic Arab of the desert
  2. 2. a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam
  3. 4. a member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain from 756 to 1031. The dynasty claimed descent from Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad.
  4. 5. a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad
  5. 6. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad
  6. 8. relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258.
  7. 10. the founder of Baghdad
  8. 11. the one true god in Islam
  9. 12. a chapter in the Quran
  10. 16. a verse in the Quran
  11. 17. the prophet ____
  12. 19. the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia
  13. 20. the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset
  14. 21. someone who practices Islam
  15. 26. obligatory payment made annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property and used for charitable and religious purposes.
  16. 29. the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.