Foundations of Islam
The prophet who founded Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Muslims pray this many times each day.
What is five?
Muhammad was born in this city.
What is Mecca?
A precious metal traded from West Africa.
What is gold?
The first major West African kingdom to control trade.
What is Ghana?
Islam spread to West Africa mainly through this activity.
Trade
The large Peninsula where Islam began.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The month of fasting in Islam.
What is Ramadan?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
A valuable trade good mined in the desert.
What is salt?
The earliest known metalworkers in West Africa.
What is Nok?
Muslim traders crossed this to reach West Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
What is monotheism?
The belief in one God.
The pilgrimage to Mecca every Muslim should attempt once.
What is the Hajj?
The angel who delivered God’s message to Muhammad.
Who is Gabriel?
This animal made desert travel possible.
What is a camel?
A ruler famous for his wealthy pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The language used to spread Islam and learning in West Africa.
What is Arabic?
The statement of faith and the first Pillar of Islam.
What is the Shahadah?
Islamic law based on the Quran and Hadith.
What is Shariah?
The event where Muhammad traveled to Jerusalem and heaven in one night.
What is the Night Journey?
Trade routes connecting North Africa and West Africa.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
The empire founded by Sundiata
What is Mali?
Storytellers who preserved history orally and through song
Who are griots?
A Muslim place of worship.
What is a mosque?
A holy shrine supposedly built by the prophet Abraham
What is the Ka’ba?
The split in Islam happened after this event.
What is Muhammad’s death?
A famous Muslim traveler who wrote about his journeys in West Africa
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The empire that replaced Mali as the strongest power.
What is Songhai?
West Africans blended Islam with these older beliefs.
What are traditional African beliefs?
Muslims refer to these people as “People of the Book”
Jews and Christians
Religious and political Leaders in the Islamic Faith
What is a Caliph?
A collection of Muhammad’s sayings and actions.
What are the Hadith?
The region south of the great desert used for trade routes.
What is the Sahel?
Traders renowned for their secrecy who controlled the gold trade in West Africa.
Who are the Wangara?
Islamic scholars taught and studied in this famous city.
What is Timbuktu?