IMES Final

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1258

Mongols sack Baghdad. End of Abbassid Empire

750-1258

Abbassid Empire begins. Replaces Ummayad.

570

Prophet is born

610

Revelation of Qur'an begins

622

hijra: immigration from Mecca to Medina

617

Khadija dies. Abu Talib dies. Year of Sadness

630

conquest of Mecca

632

Prophet dies

1099

Crusader onslaught/arrival in Jerusalem

632-634

Abu Bakr rules. 1st Caliph

634-644

Omar rules. 2nd Caliph

644-656

Uthaman rules. 3rd Caliph

656-661

Ali rules. 4th Caliph

632-661

Period of 4 Rightly Guided Caliphs

661-750

Ummayad Dynasty ended with Abassid

1071

Battle of Menzikurt. Prelude to Crusades

1096

Pope Urban calls for the Crusades

1187

Salahadeen recaptures Jerusalem

1492

Fall of Grenada in Spain. Represents waning power of Islam and rise of Europe.

1453

conquest of Constantinople by Ottoman Memet the Conqueror

1923

end of Ottoman Empire. abolished Caliphate

1798

Napolean invades Egypt. Arrives on shores of Alexandria

1830

French arrive in Algers

6 pillars of imam

God, book, angles, messenger, decree, Day of Judgement

5 pillars of faith

God, belief in prophet, alms, fasting, prayers, pilgrimage

mujtahid

recognized as an Islamic scholar who is competent in interpreting sharia by ijtihad.

itjahid

independent resanoning used to interepret sharia

fiqh

human understanding of sharia

madhab

schools of thought. 4 Sunni. 2 Shiite

4 schools of islamic thought

Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi'i and Hanbali

tawhid

doctrine of "the oneness" of God

fitra

"pure human nature", "disposition", "constitution", or "instinct"

tariqa

is the term for a school or order of Sufism, or especially for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim o