https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi Made with a quick smile en-us 2017-10-16 16:26:28 UTC 2017-10-16 16:51:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197446915 A nomad (Greek: νομάς, nomas, plural νομάδες, nomades; meaning one roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another. Among the various ways nomads relate to their environment, one can distinguish the hunter-gatherer, the pastoral nomad owning livestock, or the "modern" peripatetic nomad. As of 1995, there were an estimated 30–40 million nomads in the world.]]> 2017-10-16 16:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197446915 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197448120 2017-10-16 16:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197448120 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197448645  Aclan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship^[1] and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolic, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a symbol of the clan's unity. When this "ancestor" is non-human, it is referred to as a totem, which is frequently an animal. The word clan is derived from the Gaelic clann^[1] meaning children or progeny but not from the word for family in the Irish language^[2][3] and the Scottish Gaelic languages. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was introduced into English in around 1425, as a label for the nature of the society of the Scottish Highlands ll.^[4] Clans in indigenous societies tend to be exogamous, meaning that their members cannot marry one another. Clans preceded more centralized forms of community organization and government and are in every country. Members may identify with a coat of arms or other symbol to show they are an independent clan.]]> 2017-10-16 16:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197448645 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197449834 A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed", or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift.^[1]]]> 2017-10-16 16:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197449834 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197450139 Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.^[1][2][3] A broader definition of monotheism is the belief in one god.^[4][5][6][7] A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, and both inclusive monotheism and pluriform (panentheistic) monotheism which, while recognising various distinct gods, postulate some underlying unity.^[8]]]> 2017-10-16 16:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197450139 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197450592
Islam (/ˈɪslɑːm/^{[note 1]}) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one incomparable God (Allah)^[1] and that Muhammad is the messenger of God.^[2][3] It is the world's second-largest religion^[4] and the fastest-growing major religion in the world,^[5][6][7] with over 1.8 billion followers or 24.1% of the global population,^[8] known as Muslims.^[9] Muslims make up a majority of the population in 50 countries.^[4] Islam teaches that God is merciful, all-powerful, unique^[10] and has guided mankind through prophets, revealed scriptures and natural signs.^[3][11] The primary scriptures of Islam are the Quran, viewed by Muslims as the verbatim word of God, and the teachings and normative example (called the sunnah, composed of accounts called hadith) of Muhammad (c. 570–8 June 632 CE).

]]> 2017-10-16 16:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197450592 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197451887 A Muslim is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion. Muslims consider the Quran (Koran), their holy book, to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. The majority of Muslims also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (sunnah) as recorded in traditional accounts (hadith).^[11] "Muslim" is an Arabic wordmeaning "one who submits (to God)".^[12]]]> 2017-10-16 16:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197451887 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197452526 The Quran (/kɔːrˈɑːn/^[a]kor-AHN; Arabic: القرآن‎‎ al-Qurʾān,^[b] literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanized Qur'an or Koran^[c]) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah).^[1] It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature.^[2][3][4][5] The Quran is divided into chapters (surah in Arabic), which are then divided into verses (ayah).]]> 2017-10-16 16:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197452526 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453040 Sunnah (sunnah, سنة, Arabic: [sunna], plural سنن sunan [sunan]) is the verbally transmitted record of the teachings, deeds and sayings, silent permissions (or disapprovals) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as various reports about Muhammad's companions.^[1][2]The Quran (the holy book of Islam) and the Sunnah make up the two primary sources of Islamic theology and law.^[1][3] The Sunnah is also defined as "a path, a way, a manner of life"; "all the traditions and practices" of the Islamic prophet that "have become models to be followed" by Muslims.^[4]]]> 2017-10-16 16:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453040 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453340
A mosque (/mɒsk/; from Arabic: مسجد‎, translit. masjid‎) is a place of worship for followers of Islam.
There are strict and detailed requirements in Sunni jurisprudence (fiqh) for a place of worship to be considered a mosque, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as musallas.^[1] There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the mosque (which is often a small portion of the larger complex), and, in the Islamic Sharia law, after an area is formally designated as a mosque, it remains so until the Last Day.^[1]

]]> 2017-10-16 16:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453340 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453967 In religion, a prophet is an individual who has been contacted by a divine being in order to speak on the entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.^[1][2] The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy, which transports—at least in Judaism—a message beyond mere pagan soothsaying, augury, divination, or forecasting, and, most prominently in the neviim of the Tanakh, often comprises issues of social justice.]]> 2017-10-16 16:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197453967 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197454595 A caliphate (Arabic: خِلافة‎‎ khilāfa) is a state under the leadership of an Islamic steward known as a caliph (/ˈkælɪf, ˈkeɪ-/, Arabic: خَليفة‎‎ khalīfah,

pronunciation (help·info)), a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad (Muhammad ibn ʿAbdullāh) and a leader of the entire Muslim community.^[1] Historically, the caliphates were polities based in Islam which developed into multi-ethnic trans-national empires.^[2] During the medieval period, three major caliphates existed: the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) and the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258). The fourth major caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, established by the Ottoman Empire in 1517, was a manifestation whereby the Ottoman rulers claimed caliphal authority. During the history of Islam, a few other Muslim states, almost all of them hereditary monarchies, have claimed to be caliphates.^[1]]]> 2017-10-16 16:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197454595 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197455066 Bureaucracy (/bjuːˈrɒkrəsi/) refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.^[1]Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.^[2] Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} The public administration in many countries is an example of a bureaucracy.]]> 2017-10-16 16:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197455066 100038310 https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197455525 Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument, brush, or other writing instruments.^[1]:17 A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as, "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner".^[1]:18]]> 2017-10-16 16:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/100038310/9li62nf8fgwi/wish/197455525