Beliefs and Practices
The number of pillars to Islam.
What is 5?
What is Mecca?
An important holy site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
What is Jerusalem?
The type of math that uses equations to solve unknown numbers that was perfected by the Muslims.
What is algebra?
The number of separate Crusades.
What is 4?
The amount of money Muslims are expected to donate to charity every year.
What is 2.5%?
Muhammad's wife.
Who is Khadijah?
The religious group that suffered the most extreme persecution and discrimination during and after the Crusades.
Who are the Jews?
The horseback mounted sport adapted from the Persians.
What is polo?
The official language of Islam
What is Arabic?
The direction that Muslim face during prayer
What is Mecca?
The place Muhammad fled to during the hijrah to escape persecution and discrimination back in Mecca.
What is Medina?
The person who started the Crusades by attempting to take over the holy land for the Christians.
Who is Pope Urban II?
The language of the calligraphy that filled the illuminated paper pages adapted from the Chinese.
What is Arabic?
The religion that was able to expand and spread a lot during and after the Crusades.
What is Islam?
The pilgrimage to the holy land that all Muslim are required to make once in their lifetime.
What is the Hajj?
The place Muhammad traveled on the Night Journey on a winged-horse creature.
What is Jerusalem?
The REGION or general area where most of the battles took place during the Crusades.
What is the Middle East?
A navigational device used to align the sun and stars to determine one's position.
What is the astrolabe?
The cubed structure in the center of Islam's most holy mosque.
What is the kaaba?
The example for how Muslims should live their lives as set by Muhammad.
What is the Sunnah?
Muhammad's close friend and advisor that took over when Muhammad passed away.
Who is Abu Bakr?
They [specific people(s)] wanted to unite Spain as a Catholic country after pushing the Muslims out.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
The city where the Abbasid Dynasty relocated the Muslim capital. The city was built with double walls and took 100,000 workers to design and build.
What is Baghdad?
The total number of chapters related to the Islamic world we just finished learning about and that will be on the upcoming Q&A.
What is 4?