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This religion is an Abrahamic monotheistic centered around the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad.
What is Islam?
The Arabic word for “God”; it refers to the one and only God of the religion Islam.
Who is Allah?
These religious people are recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.
Who are Saints?
The title for someone who served their sovereign or lord as a soldier during the Middle Ages.
What is a Knight?
The name for people who do not accept a particular faith.
Who are Infidels/Heathens?
The practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.
What is Polygamy?
This group of people adhere to the religion named Islam.
Who are Muslims?
The name of an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
The name for objects of reverence that are kept because they are part of a deceased holy person's body or belongings.
What are Relics?
The name of a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return.
What is Feudalism?
The name for a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups.
What are The Crusades?
This 22-year-old woman was arrested in Iran by the country’s morality police for improperly wearing a hijab and died shortly after being detained.
Who is Mahsa Amini?
This is the central religious text of Islam.
What is the Quran?
The name for a place of prayer for Muslims.
What is a Mosque?
The name for a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant.
What are the Sacraments?
This form of government is ruled by religious leaders.
What is Theocracy?
This city is situated on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea and is considered to be a holy city for the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
The Roman Catholic Church once granted Christians a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins by selling these.
What is an Indulgence?
This is the name of the holiest city in Islam.
What is Mecca?
This consists of Profession of Faith (shahada), Prayer (salat), Alms (zakat), Fasting (sawm), and Pilgrimage (hajj).
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?
The name for a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are atoning for their sins before going to heaven.
What is Purgatory?
This group of people is under the protection of a feudal lord to whom they have vowed homage and fealty.
What is a Vassal?
This is the name of a historical region in Southwest Asia at the East end of the Mediterranean comprising parts of modern Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.
What is Palestine?
These numerals include 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
What are Arabic Numerals?
This is the name for a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition.
What is Shari’ah?
The name for the Muslim profession of faith.
What is the Shahada?
This group of people is known for destroying images used in religious worship.
What are Iconoclasts?
This type of land is given to someone by their lord, to whom they had a duty to provide particular services in return.
What is a Fief?
This empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages when its capital city was Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
These numerals include I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
What are Roman Numerals?
This is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
What is the Hajj?
This time of the year is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection and community.
What is Ramadan?
This religious leader called for the First Crusade and supported the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Moors.
Who is Pope Urban II?
This occurs when a lord has the duty to provide a fief for his vassal, to protect him, and to do him justice in his court while the vassal swears fealty to the lord.
What is “The Feudal Contract”?
This important figure of the Third Crusade spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
Who is Saladin?
The political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
What is the Caliphate?