People
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Golden Age
Contributions
Misc.
100
Allah
Who is the Compassionate, the Merciful, Sovereign of the Day of Judgement?
100
Quran
What is considered to be the sacred word of Allah?
100
Dome of the Rock
What is an example of Muslim architecture using arches and decorative tile work?
100
aljabr
What is the Arabic word for algebra?
100
hajj
What is the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims who are able?
200
Muhammad
Who is the Prophet of Islam?
200
Minaret
What is the slender tower found in a mosque?
200
The Thousand and One Nights
What is an example of Muslim literature with stories like Aladdin and His Magic Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?
200
sakk
What is the Arabic word for check - used in banking?
200
Monotheism
What is the belief in one God?
300
Omar Khayyam
Who is the author of The Rubaiyat?
300
Sultan
What was the name for a Turkish ruler?
300
Ibn Rushd
Who was known in Europe as Averroes and who put all knowledge to the test of reason?
300
"Seek Knowledge even as far as China"
What Muhammad declared that stressed the importance of education?
300
Sunnis
What is the Muslim faction that felt the caliph should be chosen by the leaders of the Muslim community?
400
Tamerlane
What was the Mongol leader who conquered Persia?
400
Hijra
What is the name for Mohammed's flight from Mecca in 622?
400
Canon of Medicine
What was a huge encyclopedia of what the Greeks and Arabs learned about the diagnosis and the treatment of disease?
400
Extensive Trade
What led Muslims to pioneer new ways of doing business?
400
Alms
What is one of the 5 Pillars of Islam - know as charity?
500
Khadija
Who was the wife of Muhammad and the first convert to Islam?
500
Sufi
What is the name of the Muslim faction that sought communion with Allah through meditation and fasting?
500
Muhammad al-Razi
Who was the most respected doctor in the city of Baghdad in the early 900s?
500
Hospitals, pharmacies, tests
What were developments in medicine avanced by Muslims in their society?
500
People of the Book
What Christians and Jews are referred as by Muslims?
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