Chapter 9: Islam
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the ruler of an Arabic tribe | sheikh
🗑
|
||||
| the Arabic word for "God" | Allah
🗑
|
||||
| the holy book of Islam | Quran
🗑
|
||||
| a person who practices Islam | Muslim
🗑
|
||||
| the journey of Muhammad and his followers to Medina in 622 | Hijrah
🗑
|
||||
| a nomadic Arab who lives in the Arabian, Syrian, or North African deserts | bedouin
🗑
|
||||
| a pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the requirements of Islam | hajj
🗑
|
||||
| the basis of the Islam faith, including pilgrimage, fasting, prayer, belief, and charity | Five Pillars of Islam
🗑
|
||||
| an Islamic law code that provided Muslims with laws to help regulate their daily lives | shari'ah
🗑
|
||||
| a spiritual and political leader of Islam | caliph
🗑
|
||||
| meaning, "struggle in the way of God," often thought of as a holy war | jihad
🗑
|
||||
| the office of the caliph | caliphate
🗑
|
||||
| a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Ali as the rightly guided caliphs | Shia
🗑
|
||||
| A Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam | Sunni
🗑
|
||||
| a high government official in Muslim countries | vizier
🗑
|
||||
| meaning "holder of power," the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and Ottomans | sultan
🗑
|
||||
| a covered market in Islamic cities | bazaar
🗑
|
||||
| a gift of money paid at the time of marriage | dowry
🗑
|
||||
| an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the positions of stars | astrolabe
🗑
|
||||
| geometric patterns repeated over and over to completely cover a surface with decoration | arabesques
🗑
|
||||
| the tower of a mosque | minaret
🗑
|
||||
| the crier who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer from the minaret of a mosque | muezzin
🗑
|
||||
| he was the first caliph of Islam | Abu Bakr
🗑
|
||||
| the holiest shrine of Islam, which is located in Mecca | Kaaba
🗑
|
||||
| Muhammad received revelations from this angel | Gabriel
🗑
|
||||
| this was the first ruling dynasty in Islam | Umayyad
🗑
|
||||
| this dynasty defeated the Umayyads and took over the Islamic Empire | Abbasid
🗑
|
||||
| the Umayyads were overthrown by the Abbasids in this year | 750
🗑
|
||||
| Muhammad made his trip from Mecca to Medina in this yeara | 622
🗑
|
||||
| Muhammad returned to Mecca from Medina in this year | 630
🗑
|
||||
| he was caliph during the golden age of the Abbasid Dynasty | Harun al-Rashid
🗑
|
||||
| the Umayyads favored people of this cultural group | Arab
🗑
|
||||
| this dynasty was the Muslim group in Egypt | Fatimids
🗑
|
||||
| the Seljuk Turks captured Baghdad in this year | 1055
🗑
|
||||
| this was a very important economic activity in the Arabian peninsula | trade
🗑
|
||||
| these are the Five Pillars of Islam | faith, charity, fasting, pilgrimage, and prayer
🗑
|
||||
| the Quran granted spiritual equality to these people | women
🗑
|
||||
| The Abbasid Dynasty took power from the Umayyads in this year | 750
🗑
|
||||
| By 725, most of this European area had become a Muslim state | Spain
🗑
|
||||
| Date by which the Arabs had conquered all of the Persian Empire | 650
🗑
|
||||
| Muslim mathematicians developed this type of math | algebra
🗑
|
||||
| The Abbasid capital was located here | Baghdad
🗑
|
||||
| The Umayyad capital was located here | Damascus
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Mrs. Marquardt
Popular World History sets