Rise of Islam
Beliefs of Islam
Islamic Caliphs and Caliphates
Artistic & Literary Accomplishments
Scientific & Mathematic Accomplishments
100
Considered the founder of the Islamic belief system.
Who is Muhammad?
100
Like Judaism and Christianity, the belief of Islam that states there to be only one God.
What is monotheism?
100
He was Muhammad's father in law and Islam's first caliph after the death of Muhammad.
Who is Abu Bakr?
100
An art form of beautiful writing depicted below that often adorned Qur'ans, mosques, homes, and other literature in the Islamic Golden Age. The avoided animal and Human figures.
What is calligraphy?
100
Al Khwarazmi, the most famous Islamic math scholar, introduced this discipline of mathematics which substituted symbols such as x, y, or z for numbers in order to solve mathematical problems.
What is Algebra?
200
The angel who visited Muhammad and ordered him to proclaim the name of Allah.
Who is Gabriel?
200
It is the fundamental beliefs and practices of the Islamic faith.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam (Faith, or Wisdom)?
200
It was Islam's first dynastic caliphate, which started the process of establishing the position of the caliph as that of a secular kingship rather than a religious position, and supported Arab supremacy throughout its empire, which eventually led to its downfall.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
200
Islamic art designs depicted below that decorated a variety of Islamic ceramics often done in the design of floral and / or abstract geometric shapes.
What is arabesque?
200
His Canon of Medicine became the primary textbook of his era on medicine in medical schools throughout the Islamic world and in Europe.
Who is Ibn-Sina (Avicenna)?
300
The first community and city that was open to and accepted the teachings of Muhammad from Allah.
What is Medina?
300
The holy month and holiday celebration in Islam in which its followers fast from sunrise to sunset as a form of worship to Allah.
What is Ramadan?
300
He was Muhammad's son in law and the last of the Rashidun Caliphs, or rightly guided caliphs. His followers would eventually develop the Shi'ite sect of Islam.
Who is Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib)?
300
The collection of Indian, Persian, and other Middle Eastern tales and fables whose famous characters consist of Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Sinbad.
What is The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights?
300
The capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate where the first public hospitals were established and people were served regardless of race, religion, citizenship, or gender.
What is Damascus?
400
Before Islam the two major religions were?
What is Hinduism and Buddhism?
400
The pilgrimage made by practicing Muslims, at least once in their lifetime, that commemorates Muhammad's migration and begins and ends in Mecca, Islam's most holy city.
What is the Hajj?
400
The climax of the Islamic Golden age occurred during this caliphate as evidenced in its building and promoting of the House of Wisdom where academic, literary, philosophical, scientific, and mathematical concepts were discussed and developed.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
400
The great Abbasid Caliphate library built in Baghdad, where scholars from around the world translated Greek, Persian, and Indian texts into Arabic. It also served as a research cite for science, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and zoology.
What is the House of Wisdom?
400
The astronomical technology depicted below that was used to locate and predict the positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. It could also be used in navigation.
What is the astrolabe?
500
The large black cube that Muhammad circled 7 times and destroyed the idols within it when he and his army conquered Mecca.
What is the Kaaba?
500
The five pillars of Islam are?
What is the Profession of faith, Daily Prayer, Fasting, Pilgrimage to Mecca, alms giving?
500
One of the Rashidun caliphs, who was a descendant of the Umayyad family, a family that would bring the Islamic caliphate to its greatest territorial expansion.
Who is Uthman?
500
The roots of the Sunni- Shia divide can be traced back to what reason?
What is a dispute about religious leaders and death of Muhammad?
500
The area of the world where Muslim mathematicians acquired development and use of numerals that allowed them to make advancements in mathematics.
What is India?