Lesson 1 Vocab
What is the name for the ruler of an Arabic tribe, chosen from one of the leading families by a council of elders?
What is a Sheikh?
What is the name for the journey of Muhammed and his followers to Medina is 622 that became year 1 of the official Calendar of Islam?
What is Hijrah?
What is the term for a succesor of Muhammed as spiritual and temporal leader of the Muslims?
What is Caliph?
What is the name for high government officials in ancient Egypt and Muslim countries?
What is Vizier?
what is the name for geometric patterns repeated over and over to completely cover a surface with decorations?
what are arabesques?
what is the Arabic word for God?
What is Allah?
What is the term for a pilgrimage to Makkah which is one of the five pillars of Islam?
What is hajj?
What is the term that means to struggle in the way of God?
What is Jihad?
What is the term that means "holder of power" and is military and political head of state among the Seljuk Turks or the Ottomans?
What is Sultan?
What is the name of the tower of a mosque from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day?
What is a minaret?
What is the name of the holy scriptures of Islam?
What is the Quran?
What is the name for the acts of worship that every Muslim must perform?
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is the office or dominion of a Caliph called?
what is a Caliphate?
What is the name for the covered markets in Islamic cities?
What is Bazaar?
What is the name of the crier who calls Muslim faithful to prayer the the minaret of a mosque?
what is a muezzin?
What is a person who believes in Islam called?
What is a Muslim?
What is the name of the law code draw up by Muslim Scholars after Muhammed's death that provides believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives?
What is Shari'ah?
What is the name for the branch of Islam that accepts only the descendants of Muhammed's son-in-law Ali as the true ruler of Islam?
What is Shia?
What is the term for a gift of money or property paid either by the bride's parents or by the husband to his new bride?
What is a dowry?
What are Muslim buildings of worship called?
what are mosques?
what is the term for a nomadic Arab who lives in a dessert?
What is a Bedouin?
Who did Muhammed say appeared to him in a cave?
Who is the angel Gabriel?
What is the name of the branch of Islam that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam?
What is Sunni?
What is the name of the instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the positions of stars that the Spanish and Portuguese got from the Muslim empires?
what is an astrolabe?
what is thee place the all muslims must try to visit at least once in their lifetime?
What is Mecca?