Islamic Astronomy
A place where Muslims studied the sun, moon, and stars.
What is an observatory?
As people began to use stars to calculate time merchants and explorers did what?
What is travel?
In the 800s Muslim mathematicians combined what number system with their own.
What is Indian?
Muslim combined their discoveries in medicine with what other civilizations
What is Greek and Indian?
Spiritual issues lead to a movement called ________.
What is Sufism
Muslim scientists improved this Greek tool used to chart the position of the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
What explorer traveled to Africa, India, China, and Spain in the 1320s.
Who is Ibn Battutah?
A Muslim mathematician wrote a book that became the foundation for ____________
What is Algebra?
Muslim doctors started the first ________ school.
What is Pharmacy?
Sufis believe they can find God's _________ by having a personal relationship with him.
What is love?
Arab scholars used this tool to figure out their position on Earth.
What is an astrolabe?
Muslim geographers made maps more _______ than before.
What is accurate?
When his works reached Europe they called this new number system _______ numerals
What is Arabic?
A doctor from _______ discovered how to treat smallpox.
Where is Baghdad?
What is Sufism
The study of astronomy helped Muslim scientists better understand what two things.
What is time and clockmaking?
The projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow.
What is a gnomon?
A doctor known as ________ wrote a medical encyclopedia.
Who is Avicenna?
The name of the first Muslim to build an astrolabe.
Who is Muhammad al-Fazari?