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- Allah
- the Supreme Being of Islam [Arabic]
- Mecca
- a place that attracts especially a particular group of people <a mecca for tourists> [named for Mecca, city in Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad and the goal of Muslim pilgrimages]
- Islam
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1 : a religion marked by belief in Allah as the sole deity, in Muhammad as his prophet, and in the Koran
2 a : the civilization erected upon Islamic faith b : the modern nations in which Islam is the dominant religion - pilgrimage
- a journey of a pilgrim; especially : one to a shrine or a sacred place
- Arab
- a member of the Semitic people of the Arabian peninsula b : a member of an Arabic-speaking people
- prophet
- one who declares publicly a message that one believes has come from God or a god
- mosque
- a Muslim place of worship
- kaaba
- a small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that contains a sacred black stone and is the point toward which Muslims turn in praying
- Medina
- city W Saudi Arabia population 198,186
- Hegira
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Etymology: the Hegira, flight of Muhammad from Mecca in A.D. 622, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic hijrah, literally, flight
: a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation : EXODUS - caliph
- an important Muslim political and religious leader -- used as a title
- jihad
- a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also : a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline
- Moorish
- one of a North African people that conquered Spain in the 8th century and ruled until 1492 [Middle English More "Moor", from early French More (same meaning), from Latin Maurus "a person from Mauretania (a country in Africa)"
- mihrab
- a niche or chamber in a mosque indicating the direction of Mecca
- minaret
- a tall slender tower of a mosque with a balcony from which the people are called to prayer
- mimbar
- a pulpit in a mosque from which the sermon is delivered. It takes the form of a domed box with a door at the top of a staircase. same as minbar
- arabesque
- an ornament or style of decoration that uses outlines of flowers, leaves, branches, or fruit and sometimes animal and human figures to produce a pattern of lines that cross over one another
- Sunni
- the Muslims of the branch of Islam that follows the orthodox tradition
- Shiah
- the Muslims of the branch of Islam comprising sects believing in Ali and the Imams as the only rightful successors of Muhammad and in the concealment and messianic return of the last recognized Imam