| Qur'an | 'Recitation'; God's words as revealed to and recited by Muhammad; an authorized edition of written words that appeared after Muhammad's death.  Listen (42.0K)
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| hadith | A 'recollection' of a act or saying of Muhammad. Listen (41.0K)
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| Kabah | 'Cube'; the square shrine at the center of the great mosque in Mecca. Listen (18.0K)
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| Muslim | A person who submits to Allah. Listen (43.0K)
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| Hijra | 'Flight'; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib. Listen (38.0K)
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| mosque | A Muslim place of worship. Listen (41.0K)
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| Islam | 'Submission'; the Muslim religion and the community of believers who have submitted themselves to Allah. Listen (39.0K)
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| muezzin | A chanter who calls people to prayer. Listen (37.0K)
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| minaret | A tower from which a chanter calls people to prayer. Listen (39.0K)
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| qiblah | The direction toward Mecca; the direction toward which Muslims pray. Listen (36.0K)
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| mihrab | The decorated niche inside a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca. Listen (26.0K)
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| Ramadan | The month of fasting; the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. Listen (44.0K)
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| Hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca. Listen (43.0K)
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| Id al-Adha | The Day of Sacrifice during the month of the Hajj, when an animal is sacrificed to recall the submission of Abraham. Listen (43.0K)
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| Id-al-Fitr | A festival at the end of the month of Ramadan, during which people feast and visit friends and often visit graves of ancestors. Listen (43.0K)
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| caliph | 'Successor'; a religious and political leader. Listen (50.0K)
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| sura | A chapter of the Qur'an. Listen (49.0K)
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| Shiite | A minority branch of Islam that holds Muhammad's genuine successors descended from his son-in-law Ali. Listen (43.0K)
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| Sunni | The majority branch of Islam, which holds that the genuine succession from Muhammad did not depend on hereditary descent from his son-in-law Ali. Listen (44.0K)
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| Imam | A religious leader; specifically, one of the hereditary successors of Muhammad, venerated in Shiite Islam. Listen (41.0K)
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| Sufism | A group of devotional movements in Islam. Listen (43.0K)
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| fana | 'Extinction'; the sense of loss of self in mystical experience. Listen (38.0K)
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| dhikr | A devotional remembrance of Allah through the recitation of his ninety-nine names and other devotional practices. Listen (51.0K)
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| Sharia | 'Path'; the whole body of Islamic law, which guides a Muslim's life. Listen (45.0K)
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| jihad | 'Struggle'; the ideal of spreading Islamic belief and practice. Listen (42.0K)
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