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Chapter 9: Islamic E
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Divine truth | Quran |
| The act of submitting to the control amazing or authority of another | Submission |
| Arabic for God; the supreme God of Islam. | Allah |
| A person who believes in Islam. | Muslim |
| A pilgrimage to Makkah, one of the requirements of the Five Pillars of Islam. | Hajj |
| Having many intricate parts. | Complex |
| A successor of Muhammad as spiritual and temporal leader. | Caliph |
| "Struggle in the way of God.” | Jihad |
| The office of the Caliph. | Caliphate |
| To diminish or destroy by degrees. | Erode |
| A gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage. | Dowry |
| A Muslim group that only accepts the descendants of Muhammad’s son-in-law, Ali as the true ruler of Islam. | Shiite |
| A Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam. | Sunni |
| After the death of Muhammad, political leadership fell to a caliph by the name of | Abu Bakr |
| The main split inside Islam was between Sunni and | Shiite |
| During the last two hundred years of the Abbasid empire, it fell under the control of the | Saljuq Turks |
| The hereditary dynasty made by Mu’awiyah that moved the capital from Madinah to Damascus, in Syria. | Umayyad |
| In 750, Abu al-Abbas a descendant of Muhammad's uncle, overthrew the Umayyad dynasty and set up the ______________________, which lasted until 1258. Capital city is Baghdad. | Abbasid |
| Which of the following were major achievements of Islamic scholars? | Math, medicine, history |
| By the time the Umayyad dynasty was established, the Arab Empire had already conquered | the Persian Empire. |
| The Islamic equivalent of the Christian Holy Bible is the | Quran. |
| According to Islamic belief, Muhammad is | the prophet of Allah. |
| A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the ____________, which was a covered market. | Bazzar |
| The Islamic religion was created as a direct result of | the revelations received by Muhammad. |
| According to Islamic teaching, Muhammad received messages from | Gabriel |
| The Umayyad dynasty was replaced by | the Abbasid. |
| After Muhammad’s death, Muslim scholars drew up the shari’ah, which is | a code that provides believers with practical laws to regulate their daily lives. |
| As the Arab Empire grew, people who were not Muslims or did not convert to Islam in the conquered territories | had to pay special taxes. |
| Ibn-Khaldun | A prominent Muslim historian who believed civilizations go through regular cycles of birth, growth, and decay |
| Ibn-Rushd | Muslim philosopher who wrote a commentary on virtually all of Aristotle’s surviving works |
| Abbasids | Under rule by these caliphs, many Arabs began to intermarry with conquered peoples. |
| Abū Bakr | Caliph whose leadership allowed Arabs to take control of the Byzantine province of Syria in Southwest Asia. |
| Seljuk Turks | Captured Baghdad in 1055 and took over the eastern provinces of the Abbasid Empire. |
| According to the ______, women and men had spiritual and social equality. | Quran |
| The Islamic Empire was | a center of philosophy, science, and history. |
| _______ was a powerful Caliph for the Islamic Empire. | Abu Bakr, |
| Many people living on the Arabian Peninsula prior to Muhammad's visions were | polythesitc |
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