Vocabulary Chapter 7 and 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Harun Al-rashid | most famous of Abbassid Caliphs; renowned for costly living; death led to civil wars' over succession |
| Buyids | Regional splinter dynasty of the mid-10th century; invaded and captured Baghdad; ruled abbassid dynasty under the name of sultan; abbassids were their figureheads |
| Seljuk Turks | nomadic invaders from central asia via persia |
| Crusades | series of military adventures intitially launched by western christians to free holy land from Muslims |
| Saladin | Muslim leader in the last decades of the 12th century; reconquered moste crusader out-posts for Islam |
| Rubaiyat | persian poetry consisting of 4 quatrains |
| Sa'di | Wrote many books and studied the Quran and Islamic law intently |
| Ulama | orthodox religious scholors within islam |
| Al-Ghazali | Brilliant islamic theologian; struggled to fuse Greek and Quranic traditions; not entirely accepted by Ulama |
| Sufis | mystics within islam; responsible for expansion of Islam to SE asia |
| Mongols | Central Asia nomadic peoples |
| Arabic numerals | Characters 0-9 in general european use since 12th century |
| Harsha | Emporer of Northern India; Buddhist convert in Hindu Era |
| Sati | Buddhist word meaning awareness or skillfull attentivness |
| Bhaktic cults | hindu groups dedicated to gods and goddesses |
| Malacca | portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the tip of malayan peninsula |
| Maghrib | the arabic word for western north africa |
| Ethiopia | christian kingdom thta developed in highlands of eastern africa under the dynasty of king lalaibela |
| Sahel | the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the sahara |
| Mansa Krankan Musa | emperor of Mali during the 14th century |
| Griots | professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within Mali empire |
| Timbuktu | port city of mali |
| Zani | a gift from God :) |
| East africa trading Post | trading post in east africa |
| Ibn Batuta | Arabic traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records |
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