vocab

1. Because Muhammad was the chosen recipient and messenger of the word of God through the divine revelations,
2. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, believing in one god. It is not a racial group.
5. The term Western Wall commonly refers to a 187-foot (57 m) exposed section of a much longer retaining wall, built by Herod on the western flank of the Temple Mount. Only when used in this sense is it synonymous with the term Wailing Wall. This section faces a large plaza and is set aside for prayer.
7. Moreover, many Jews believe the site to be where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac.
9. The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001.
10. The English word "mosque" denotes a Muslim house of worship.
11. The Kurds have a rich folkloric tradition which is increasingly endangered as a result of modernization, urbanization, and cultural repression.
12. a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam
13. Sunnis believe that the Quran is the literal word of God.

1. the land "between the rivers" in modern-day Iraq—was home to the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
3. multinational organization that was established to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members and to provide member states with technical and economic aid.
4. Islam means "surrender" and its central idea is a surrendering to the will of God.
6. those Muslims who put their faith in Abu Bakr came to be called Sunni
8. a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.
9. relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.