Question | Answer |
Nomadic Arab Peoples | Bedouins |
Prophet of the Islam whom Muslims recognize as Allah's messenger to all humankind. | Muhammad |
Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina cam to as the ___ or Hijra. | Hegira |
Faith called ___, meaning "Achieving peace through submission to God" | Islam |
Number of followers, who were known as ___, grew up rapidly as Muhammad preached. | Muslims |
The sacred text of Islam. | Qur'an |
The Qur'an lays out five basic acts of worship that are central to Islam and that Muhammad himself fulfilled. | Five Pillars of Islam |
A building for Muslin prayer. | Mosque |
A word that can be translated as "struggle for the faith." | Jihad |
One of Muhammad's closest companions and one of the earliest converts to Islam, was chosen. | Abu Bakr |
"Successor" | Caliph |
Area ruled by a Caliph, stretched all the way from northern Africa in the west to Persia in the east. | Caliphate |
The first dynasty over the Muslim Caliphate. | Umayyad |
"Followers of the Sunna" or "way of the prophet" | Sunnis |
From the phrase that means "Party of Ali" | Shia |
With addition to the Sunni and Shia division, a third group developed within Islam. | Sufis |
Dynasty the overthrew the Umayyad dynasty to rule the Muslim caliphate from 750 to 1258. | Abbasid |
The most prominent Abbasid caliph, helped bring Muslim culture to great heights during his reign from 786 to 809. | Harun al-Rashid |
An instrument for finding the positions and movements of stars and planets. | Astrolabe |
Wrote commentaries on Aristotle. | Ibn Rushd |
A Persian doctor know also as Avicenna. | Ibn Sina |
Wrote a history of the world. | Ibn Khaldun |
Beautifully styled writing. | Calligraphy |
Tall towers from which the faithful are called to prayer and domes are common features of mosques. | Minarets |
Muslim poets produced works in several languages. One of them was Jalal ad-Din ___, whose Persian-language poems from the 1200s are still read and recited by many people. | Rumi |
Writing in Persian was ____. His collection of four-line poems is called the Rubaiyat. | Omar Khayyam |