Islamic World

Updated 1 December 2006 EG

Final Exam

Key Terms

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Camp David Summit

Anwar Sadat

Menachim Begin

Gamal Abd al-Nasir

Yasir Arafat

Ayatollah Khomeini

Mohammed Reza Shah

Islamic Revolution in Iran

Iran Hostage Crisis

Iran-Iraq War

Zionism

Theodore Hertzel

Balfour Declaration

Peel Commision

UN Partition of Palestine

1948 Palestine War

1967 Arab Israeli War

October (Yom Kippur War)

Arab Nationalism

Palestine Liberation Organization

Hamas

Jewish Agency

Haganah

Moghuls

Ottomans

Safavids

Babur

Akbar

Mansabar

Diwan

Din Illahi

Millet

Devshirme

Sulyman the Magnificent

Osman

Mehemet II

Janissaries

Sipahs

Cairo Geniza

Abraham Ben Yiju

Bomma the slave

Mangalore

Aden

Jewish Trade in Fatamid Egypt

Islamic Responses to Modernity in 18^th and 19^th centuries

Mahdist Sudan

Muhammad Ali (Egyptian)

Busaids in Oman

Seyyid Said (Oman and Zanzibar)

Essay Possibilities:

Nationalism posed and poses a huge challenge to the Islamic idea of the united Ummah. How? Why? How have Muslims dealt with nationalism?

Interaction between the Muslim and non-Muslim world has been very different at different times. How have changing balances of global power changed the Islamic World’s relations with the non-Muslim World?

How has the treatment of the dhimmi changed in the Islamic world over time? Think especially of the rise of the state of Israel.

Has the Islamic world been in decline since the 13^th century? What is decline? Compared to what might they have declined?