| Defination | Vocaubulary |
| Burning of widows on the same funeral pyres as their deceased husbands. | |
| a trading city whose small trading empires replaced the falling Shrivijaya empire. | |
| Orthodox scholars within Islam; opposed non-Muslim scientific thinks. | |
| A collection of Persian poems by Oman Kahyyam. | |
| A regional splinter dynasty in Persia who invaded the heartland of Abbasid dynasty and captured Baghdad. | |
| Muslim mystic during the 15th century; played down the importance of ritual differences between Hinduism and Islam. | |
| Turkic slaves who defeated the Mongols and then ruled Egypt. | |
| Series of military invasions initially launched by Christians to free the holy lands from the Muslims. | |
| Wandering mystics who sought a personal union with Allah. | |
| Person who developed a classifying scheme: animals, vegetables, minerals. | |
| The twin emblems of women's increasing subjugation to men and confinement to the home in the Abbasid era. | |