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	Info The Islamic City Handout Document Actions — filed under: Societies, Religion, Middle East, Culture, Islamic Societies, Arabic, History, Arabic and Middle East Studies, North Africa, Islam Islamic Cities of the Middle East & North Africa MELC20040 Glossary: Chebayis: tribal community in southern Iraq mukhtar/ ‘umda/ katkhoda: village headman Shaikh: tribal chieftain waqf: charitable endowment or foundation mehallet: neighborhoods tariqa: Sufi brotherhood suq: public market adhan (commonly pronounced azan): the call to prayer five times a day Cities and terms referred to in the video: Jibla and San‘a, Yemen Qayrawan, Tunisia Istanbul, Turkey Islamabad, Pakistan Cairo, Egypt ziggurat minaret: tower of a mosque from which the adhan is given Fatehpur Sikri, India Marrakesh, Morocco University of el-‘Ain in the United Arab Emirates Fez, Morocco Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Afsaruddin, A. (2006, September 05). The Islamic City Handout. Retrieved November 07, 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/the-islamic-city-handout. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.