Terms for Lectures and from reading: N&T, 34-55

Note: Judith Tucker, in your book, In the House of the Law,  provides a very useful glossary of many Islamic terms on pages 205-209.

shari`ah (also sometimes spelled shari`a)
Qur'an  (also sometimes spelled Koran)
Bedouin
nomad
tribe
polyandry
polygyny (same as polygamy)
matrilineal
patrilineal
Khadijah (also Khadija)
caliph
hijra
Mecca
Muhammad
Medina
concubine/concubinage
`iddah  (also `idda)
mahr
hadith
Sasanians
Umayyad caliphate (661-750), based in Damascus (Syria)
Abbasid caliphate (750-1258), based in Baghdad (Iraq)
[for chronology of Islamic history, click here]
`A'ishah [also `A'isha]
Battle of the Camel (655)
`Ali
Fatimah [Fatima]
sunnah [sunna]
hejab [usually, hijab]
harem [also harim]
 

Sunni
Druze
Kurds
 

Ottomans/Ottoman Empire
Mashreq
Safavids
Mongols
Mamlukes