Middle East Test (first)
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- allah
- arabic word for god
- amount of oil us consumes
- 25 %
- arab
- one who speaks arabic
- babylonians
-
hammurabi's code of law
- byzantine
- eastern portion of former roman empire
- fastest growing religions
- one is islam
- final day of hajj
- spent in mecca at kaaba
- hajj
- needs to be made in a time of life when things are in order and full devotion to allah can be made
- hellenistic
- library of alexandria
- jihad
- fight in defense of islam
- joe biden
- us senator who believes that federalism is the best political strategy to success in iraq.
- kurds
- ethnic group without an independent state, hoping for sovereignty in a democratic iraq
- mecca
- islam's holy city
- mesopotamia
- "land between the rivers," ancient greek name for the triangular area between the tigris and euphrates rivers
- middle east oil reserves make up
- 70% of worlds oil reserves
- minority of us oil comes from
- middle east
- muhammad
- prophet of islam
- phoenician
- alphabet
- pillars of faith
-
1. shahada
2. salat
3. zahat
4. ramadan
5. hajj
- qur'an
- holy book of islam
- ramadan
- in memory of the revelation of the qur'an muslims abstain from food, drink, sex, stimulants during daylight hours of nine lunar months. pregnant women, children, ill and travelers are excused.
- religions sharing common beliefs/practices
- christianity, judaism, islam
- roman
- christianity
- salat
- ritual prayer five times daily (morning, noon, afternoon, sunset, dusk) while bowing knees is submission to god in direction of mecca and can occur anywhere. costumarily on fridays at noon in mosque.
- shahada
-
profession of faith
1. there is no god but allah
2. muhammad is allah's prophet
- sumerians
- number 60
- sunni/shiite
- 2 sects of islam
- top oil producers
- saudi arabia and russia
- wahhabism
- practiced by osama bin laden
- water
- more important resource to the middle east than oil
- zahat
- originally a free-will donation but now a largely compulsory charity - a "loan to god" - representing 2.5% of one's income donated by those 16 and older who can afford it.