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Glossary of terms:

Druze: Shi‘i off-shoot group in Syria, Lebanon primarily

Alawi: as above

Copts: predominant Christian group in Egypt

Kurds: Sunni Muslim Kurdish-speaking ethnic group in primarily Turkey, Iraq

Berber: ethnic group in North Africa

Ahl al-kitab: “people of the book;” term for Jews and Christians

dhimmi: “protected person,” used for a Jew or Christian, later also for a Zoroastrian in Persia, and Hindu in India

Monophysites: Eastern Christians who believed that the human and divine natures of Christ were fused into one; regarded as heretics by the Byzantine church

Council of Chalcedon: 451 CE

millet: autonomous religious communities in the Ottoman empire

Maronites: followers of St. John Maroun (d. 410), primarily in Lebanon

Bahai: off-shoot of Islam, now independent, ecumenical religion

Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Afsaruddin, A. (2006, September 05). Lecture 6 Handout. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/arabic-and-middle-east-studies/islamic-societies-of-the-middle-east-and-north/handouts/lecture-6-handout. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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	Info Lecture 6 Handout Document Actions — filed under: Societies, Religion, Middle East, Culture, Islamic Societies, Arabic, History, Arabic and Middle East Studies, North Africa, Islam Islamic Societies of the Middle East & North Africa MELC20040 Glossary of terms: Druze: Shi‘i off-shoot group in Syria, Lebanon primarily Alawi: as above Copts: predominant Christian group in Egypt Kurds: Sunni Muslim Kurdish-speaking ethnic group in primarily Turkey, Iraq Berber: ethnic group in North Africa Ahl al-kitab: “people of the book;” term for Jews and Christians dhimmi: “protected person,” used for a Jew or Christian, later also for a Zoroastrian in Persia, and Hindu in India Monophysites: Eastern Christians who believed that the human and divine natures of Christ were fused into one; regarded as heretics by the Byzantine church Council of Chalcedon: 451 CE millet: autonomous religious communities in the Ottoman empire Maronites: followers of St. John Maroun (d. 410), primarily in Lebanon Bahai: off-shoot of Islam, now independent, ecumenical religion Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Afsaruddin, A. (2006, September 05). Lecture 6 Handout. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/arabic-and-middle-east-studies/islamic-societies-of-the-middle-east-and-north/handouts/lecture-6-handout. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.