The Quran
Constantinople
Muslim Achievements
The Ottomans
Art and Architecture
100
The recipient of a divine revelation that later became know as the Quran.
Who is Muhammad?
100
The iconic church-turned-mosque in Constantinople built by Emperor Justinian
What is the Hagia Sophia?
100
The Abbasid Dynasty moved the capital Muslim capital from Damascus to this city, which went on to flourish as poets, scholars, philosophers and others came visit or live near the Abbasid court.
What is Baghdad?
100
The Ottoman empire enjoyed a golden age under the leadership of this man, also known as "the Lawgiver."
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
100
This art form is used to decorate religious and public buildings with verses from the Quran.
What is calligraphy?
200
This is the language of the Quran.
What is Arabic?
200
The names Constantinople was known as before AND after it was called Constantinople.
What are Byzantium and Istanbul?
200
Two ways that Muslims preserved the findings of previous civilizations, such as the Greeks, Romans, and Persians
What are translating books into Arabic and building libraries?
200
The Ottomans ushered in the "age of gunpowder" by using the following new technology during their siege of Constantinople.
What are cannons?
200
This art form, popular in the Byzantine Empire, is a representation of a sacred person or event, typically painted on a wooden panel, and often used during prayer.
What is an icon?
300
This person's job is to call Muslims to prayer five times a day.
Who is the muezzin?
300
These two features made Constantinople easy to defend.
What are its defensive wall and the fact that it was surrounded on three sides by water?
300
Under this dynasty, the Islamic empire expanded as far east as Spain and Morocco and as far west as the Indus River Valley.
What is the Umayyad Dynasty?
300
He was the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
Who is Mehmet II?
300
Because Muslims are discouraged from portraying God, people, or animals in art in an attempt to avoid anthropomorphizing God.
Why is Islamic art non-representational?
400
This term for the internal struggle each Muslim must face - a battle within oneself to stay focused on God rather than on worldly distractions - is often referred to as the "sixth pillar of Islam."
What is jihad?
400
They sacked Constantinople in 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Who are the Turks?
400
He was one of the most important Islamic philosophers, famous, among other things, for his commentaries on Aristotle.
Who is Ibn Rushd?
400
Non-Muslim boys were converted to Islam and put into rigorous military training at the palace school, where the best soldiers won a prized place in this elite force of the Ottoman army.
What is the janizaries?
400
Symmetry, domes, arches, and repeating patters are all examples of this feature of Islamic art.
What is geometric design?
500
These are the five pillars of Islam.
What are the declaration of faith, prayer five times a day, charity to the poor, fasting during Ramadan, and making the pilgrimage to Mecca?
500
Constantinople is strategically situated on the spot where these two straits connect the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.
What are the Bosporus and the Dardenelles?
500
This Muslim mathematician and astronomer introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics.
Who is al-Khwarizmi?
500
Ottoman society was divided into these four classes of people, each of which had an appointed role in society.
What are “men of the sword” (soldiers), “men of the pen” (scientists, lawyers, judges, and poets), “men of negotiation” (merchants, tax collectors, and artisans), and “men of husbandry” (farmers and herders)?
500
This leader of the Mughal Dynasty built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Who is Shah Jahan?
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