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Ka'aba
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An ancient Arabic shrine located in Mecca
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Hajj
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A pilgrimage to Makkah, one of the requirements of the 5 Pillars of Islam
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Allah
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Arabic for "God"
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Quran
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The holy scriptures of the religion of Islam
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Caliph
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A successor of Muhammad as spiritual and temporal leader of the Muslims
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Jihad
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"Struggle in the way of God"
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Shiite
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A Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali as the true rulers of Islam
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Sunni
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A Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam
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Sultan
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"holder of power," the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and the Ottomans
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Mosque
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A muslim house of worship
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5 Pillars
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Belief (Believing there is no deity but the One God, and Muhammad is his messenger), Prayer (Performing the prescribed prayers 5 times a day), Charity (Giving part of one's wealth to the poor "giving alms"), Fasting (Refraining from food and drink from dawn to sunset through the month of Ramadan), Pilgrimage (Making a pilgrimage to Makkah once in a lifetime)
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