HIS 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Banu Hashim, Fatimah, Quraysh
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Lecture 14 : the arabs and islamic expansion. Bedouins : they were sheep, horse, and cattle raisers, raiding. A tent was a family, a camp was a clan, and clans were a tribe. The main problem for the disintegration for the islamic religion. Ghazw : the word for a raid. Sheikh : is an arabic word meaning the elder of a tribe, a revered old man, or an islamic scholar. Jinn : (in arabian and muslim mythology) an intelligent spirit of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human and animal forms and to possess humans. Mohammed : muhammad was the founder of islam. According to islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and god"s messenger, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by adam, abraham, moses, Mecca : in a desert valley in western saudi arabia, is islam"s holiest city, as it"s the birthplace of the prophet muhammad and the faith itself.
