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- mosque
- place to worship
- cordoba
- captial of al-andalus
- iberian peninsula
- southwestern tip of Europe
- pilgrimage
- journey to sacred place
- Abd al-malik
- leader who made one language, arabic for muslim lands
- factions
- opposing groups
- allah
- the ka'ab temple in arabic
- muslim
- people who believed in islam
- al-andalus
- area of spain under muslims control
- Qur'an
- muhammad;s teachings on a scripture;holy book
- Sunnah
- muhammad's words and deedsused for proper living
- monotheism
- belief in one god
- bureaucracy
- system of departments that work with the government
- calligraphy
- art of fine hand writing
- omar khayyam
- poet who was a master at poetry
- sunnis
- group that took any caliph and accepted umayyad
- Baghdad
- the capital of abbasid empire,now located in Iraq
- Abd al-Rahman
- the 8th emir of Al-andalus
- shi'a
- believed in muhammad not in umayyad's
- caliph
- title of seccessor
- islam
- religion of mecca
- oasis
- fertile area in the desert
- mercenaries
- soldiers paid to fight
- standing army
- an army who doesn't fight during peace or war
- clans
- families related by blood or marriage
- golden age
- period of time when society couldn't go any further
- nomads
- people who moves from place to place rather than settling permently
- hijrah
- muhammad and his followers moving from mecca to yathrib