MINIMUM WORD KIT ON MEDIEVAL ISLAM

IBN AL-JUBAIR   IBN AL-QALANISI   IBN AL-JAWZI    BEHAEDDIN (BAHA AL-DIN IBN SHADDAD)
WAQF   MADRASAH   JIHAD (fought by MUJAHID, MUJAHIDIN)
ZENGI   NUREDDIN   SALADIN
ALLAH   MOHAMMED   CALIPH
ABBASID   FATIMID (ISMAILI SHIITES)   CAIRO   CORDOVA
AL-NASIR (
Abbasid caliph 1180-1225)
SULTAN   WAZIR   ATABEG
SELJUQS OF RUM
TYRE 1124   ASCALON 1153
USAMAH
ASKAR
(Cf. western FAMILIA, household)   MAMLUKS
IQTA
held by a MUQTAR
DIWAN   FAQIH   QADI   IMAM
(orginally = mosque cantor)   KATIB ("secretary")
SHIITES   ALI    TWELVERS (12 imams)
ASSASSINS   HASHISH   ISLAMIC REVIVAL   GHAZIS
KHOTBA
DAMASCUS
FIQH   FATWA (cf. RESPONSUM or CONSILIUM)
NIZAM AL-MULK
DAR AL-ILM   DAR AL-ISLAM   DAR AL-HARB
SHARIA   HADITH
SUFI   HANAQAH   RIBAT
KORAN, QU'RAN   SURAH(S)
AL-SHAMS (Syria)   AL-QUDS (Jerusalem)
ALP ARSLAN   MANZIKERT 1071   ANATOLIA (Rum)
HAJJ   MECCA
AQABA   KERAK    SHAWBAK
AL-SULAMI (
wrote Damascus 1105)
ILGHAZI of ALEPPO   TUGHTEKIN of DAMASCUS   Battle of AGER SANGUINIS 1119   EDESSA
IBN AL-ATHIR
AL-AQSA MOSQUE (JERUSALEM)   MINBAR