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| "successor"; a religious and political leader |
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| a devotional remembrance of allah through the recitation of his 99 names and other devotional practices |
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| "extinction"; the sense of loss of self in mystical experience |
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| "recollection"; remembrance of an act or saying of Muhammad |
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| "flight"; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib |
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| the Day of Sacrifice during the month of the Hajj when an animal is sacrificed to recall the submission of Abraham |
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| the festival at the end of the month of Ramadan during which people feast and visit friends and often the graves of ancestors |
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| a religious leader; specifically one of the hereditary successors of Muhammad, venerated in Shiite Islam. |
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| "submission"; the Muslim religion and the community of believers who have submitted themselves to Allah. |
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| "struggle"; the ideals both of spreading Islamic belief and of heroic self-sacrifice |
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| "cube"; the square shrine at the center of the great mosque of Mecca |
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| the decorated niche inside a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca |
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| a tower used by a chanter to call people to prayer |
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| a Muslim place of worship |
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| a chanter who calls people to prayer |
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| a person who submits to Allah |
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| the direction toward Mecca; the direction toward which Muslims pray |
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| "recitation"; God's words as revealed to and recited by Muhammad; an authorized edition of the written words that appeared after Muhammad's death |
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| the month of fasting; the 9th month of the Muslim calendar |
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| "path"; the whole body of Islamic law, which guides a Muslim's life |
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| a minority branch of Islam, which holds that Muhammad's genuine successors descended from |
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| a minority branch of Islam, which holds that Muhammad's genuine successors descended from his son-in-law Ali |
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| a group of devotional movements in Islam |
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| the majority branch of Islam, which holds that genuine succession from Muhammad did not depend o hereditary descent from his son-in-law Ali |
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