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Hansen-Sedor Islam
Islamic Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of landform covers most of the interior of Arabia? | Desert |
| What benefits did belonging to a tribe offer nomads? | Protection |
| What made Arabia an important center for trade and commerce? | It's the crossroads |
| What was an important Muslim achievement in medicine? | The first pharmacy school |
| What made it possible for people to live a sedentary life in the Arabian Desert? | Towns around oases |
| Why did Muhammad often go to the hills outside Mecca to pray and meditate? | He was upset about the changing values in Mecca |
| What was a Muslim contribution to math? | algebra |
| Two major cities of Islamic culture and learning were: | Baghdad and Cordoba |
| Which city did Muslims control by 661: | Damascus |
| A call goes out from a mosque five times a day for the Muslims to do what? | pray |
| Which of Muhammad's daughters' husbands became known as the second leader of Islam? | Ali |
| What are some of the keys to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire: | *major world power: conquered Syria and Egypt *Ottoman Army * Mehmed "The Conqueror" made Istanbul the new capital *Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque |
| How did Islam spread? | Warfare, trade and treaties |
| Muslims split into what two groups after a disagreement about who should succeed as caliph? | Sunni and Shia's |
| Why did Muslims make treaties with non-Muslims? | To offer protection and list rules for its conquered peoples. |
| How did the Muslims treat Jews and Christians? | With respect, they could practice their own religion but could not build a church and had to pay a fine. |
| How did the Arabian region have contact with other civilizations? | warfare, trade, and treaties |
| How did the Ottoman society treat women? | Limited their freedom, separated them from the men into harems |
| What refers to the way Muhammad lived, which provides a model for the duties and the way of life expected of Muslims? | Sunnah |
| People who moved from place to place with their animals live this way of life. | Nomads |
| What area of study did scholars make great contributions: | medicine |
| Within a few years of Muhammad's death, Islam spread to: | Central Asia |
| Muslim scientist invented these, which the Greeks had invented to look at the stars: | astrolabe |
| He was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet who wrote a book of poems known as The Rubaiyat: | Omar Khayyam |
| Abraham: | Person considered a prophet in the Judaism, Christianity and Islam religions |
| Baghdad: | A center of Muslim culture and learning that was an early capital of Islam |
| Caliph: | the title of the highest leader of Islam |
| Cordoba: | City in what is now Spain that was a major center of Muslim culture and learning |
| Istanbul: | Once Constantinople ~ new capital of Ottoman Empire |
| Medina: | City to which Muhammad fled from Mecca |
| Mosque: | A building for Muslim prayer |
| Mughal: | Muslim empire in India |
| Muhammad: | Founder of the Muslim religion |
| Qur'an: | The holy book of Islam |
| Shariah: | The system of Islamic law |
| Shia: | Muslims who believe that only members of Muhammad's family would become the head of Islam |
| Suleyman I: | The greatest Ottoman emperor under whom the empire reached its peak |
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