Terms
The month of Muhammad's "visions"
What was Ramadan?
Holy war against non-muslims.
What is jihad?
The location of the Ka'bah.
What is Mecca?
Arabic word for "the god".
What is Allah?
A follower of Islam
Who is a Muslim?
The center of pagan rituals in Mecca later turned into a Islamic holy sight.
What is the Ka'bah?
The part of Christ's life that Muslims completely reject.
What is his crucifixion?
The destination of Muhammad's flight.
What was Medina?
The most important Muslim book of its time.
What was "Arabian Nights" or "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights"?
Person known as the Father of Optics
Who was Alhazen?
The Persian Empire
Who were the Sassanids?
The two most "holy" books in Islam.
The Byzantine Empire tried to stop the spread of Islam in this region of the world.
What was Asia Minor?
Muslim advances in Math.
What were Arabic numbers and algebra?
The Father of Modern Medicine
Who was Avicenna?
Capital of the Umayyad Caliphate.
What was Damascus?
What is that it has been "corrupted"?
Capital of the Abbassid Caliphate.
What was Baghdad?
Tool used by the Muslims to improve the study of astronomy
What was the astrolabe?
The man who received the nickname "the hammer" for his defeat of the Muslim forces.
Who was Charles Martel?
The wars fought by Abu Bakr to defeat any who sought independence outside of Islam.
What were the Wars of Apostasy?
List the five pillars of Islam.
What are the Creed, Prayer, Almsgiving, Fasting, and Pilgrimage?
What was Tours?
The Arabic name for an Islamic pilgrimage.
What is a Hajj?
The people that preserved much of Western or Greek thought and learning.
Who was the Byzantine Empire?