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Chapter 10
Muslum Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the five pillars? | Faith, alms, prayer, pilgrimage and fasting |
| Who were the founders of Islam? | Abraham and Mahammad |
| What was the birthplace of Islam? | Mecca and Medina |
| What was their belief in afterlife? | Belief in concept of Heaven called paradise and concept of Hell. |
| What was their concept of the Messiah? | Belief Muhammah is the last and greatest prophet. A messiah will come again to bring peace to the world and a belief in Judgement day. |
| What was Islam's major holiday? | Ramadan which is the Holy Day in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset to honnor god (Allah). |
| What were their holy books? | Quran and Sharia- a body of law that includes interpretation of the Quran |
| Who was the leader of religious services? | No real leader. A mosque official called a Muezzin or Imam calls the faithful to prayer. |
| What is a Muslim? | A follower of Islam. |
| What is a Mosque? | An Islamic place of warship. |
| What is the Hajj? | A pilgrimage to Mecca preformed by a duty from Muslims. |
| What did Muslim's call their God? | Muslim's called their good Allah. |
| Why did Muslims consider Christians and Jews "people of the book?" | They both have holy books like the Qur'an. |
| How did Islam spread Arabic culture? | As people learned Arabic for warship, they could understand Arabic culture. |
| How did Muslim's Under the "rightly guided" caliphs treat conquered people? | They were tolerant of conquered people. |
| Why did the Shi'a oppose the rule of the Umayyads? | The Umayyads were not Muhammads descedants. |
| What tied the Abbasid caliphate and the independant Muslim states together? | Religion, trade and language |
| Do you think Muhammad should have appointed a successor. Why or why not? | Yes, to maintain unity. |
| What attracted non-muslims to Islam and islamic culture? | Religious teachings, learning and prosperity and status in society. |
| What does opposition to the luxurious life of the Umayyads suggest about what is important to most mulims? | It reveals that spiritual matters are most important. |
| What is Caliph? | A supreme and religious leader un Muslim government. |
| What was the Emayyahds? | A dynasty that ruled the Muslim empire from A.D. 661 to 750 and later established a kingdom in al-andalus |
| Who were the Sunni's? | The branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful success. |
| Who is a Sufi? | A muslim who seeks to get in contact with god through mystical means |
| Who were the Abbasids? | A dynasty who controlled most of the Muslim empire |
| What was Al-andalus? | Muslim ruled region in what is now Spain. |
| Who was Fatima? | A member of a Muslim dynasty that traced its ancestry to Muhammad's daughter Fatima and that built an empire in north Africa, Arabia, and syria in the 10th to 12th centuries. |
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