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- Avicenna
- physician of Middle Ages, wrote "Canon of Medicine"
- Rumi
- Sufi poet
- Beduins
- herdsmen nomads organized into tribes
- Abu Bekr
- Muhammed's father in law and supporter, supressed Beduin split off groups, used holy wars to expand authority
- Omar Khayyam
- poetry "Rubaiyat" impermanenceof life, created calendar of day
- Alchemists
- trying to turn metal into gold, inventing steel
- Shan Jahan
- Mughal emporer, built Taj Mahal
- Mullah
- learned men in Islamic faith and law, not priests
- Rhazes
- wrote medical encyclopedia (surgery), translated into latin
- Hajj
- shrine of Islam, annual 6 day event,
- Imam
- prayer leader
- Unayyad
- more political than Pious
- Muhammed Ali
- Muhammed's cousin and son in law, wanna be "caliph"
- Mohammed
- born in Mecca, orphaned, peverty stricken, street kid, little formal education, became camel driver, exposed to many diverse religions, began to think about the problems of religion, developed idea of one supreme being: Allah, considered self to be prophet/teacher, like Jesus, captured Mecca after fleeding, 632 CE: ascends to heaven
- Al-Mas'udi
- 1st islamic historian