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Question | Answer |
Caliph | A supreme political and religious leader in Muslim government |
Umayyads | A dynasty that ruled the Muslim empire from A.D. 661 to 750 and later established a kingdom in al-Andalus |
Shi'a | The branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendents as the rightful successors of Muhammad |
Sunni | The branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four Caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad |
Sufi | A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means |
Abbasids | A dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim empire from A.D. 750-1258 |
al-Andalus | A Muslim ruled region in what is now Spain, established in eight century A.D. |
Fatmid | A member of a Muslim dynasty that traced its ancestry to Muhammad's daughter, Fatima and that built an empire in North Africa, Arabia, and Syria in the 10th-12th centuries |
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