Pre-Islamic Arabia & Revelations
Due to low rainfall across the Arabian Peninsula, human settlements were established near these features.
What are bodies of water?
Muhammed formed this first collective global community of Muslims, stating that religious ties were greater than tribal ties.
What is the Ummah?
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE) ruled from this capital city.
What is Damascus?
Usul Al-Fiqh establishes Sharia jurisprudence by synthesizing the Quran, Hadith, Ijma, and this fourth methodology.
What is Qiyas?
Today, Islam has approximately 2 billion followers, making up about this percentage of the global population.
What is 25%?
Most Arabs in pre-Islamic Arabia did not farm, but instead practiced this lifestyle.
What is nomadic pastoralism?
Prophet Muhammad died of natural causes in 632 CE without publicly naming one of these.
What is a political successor?
The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258 CE) moved its capital to this city, which became a major center of science, mathematics, and philosophy.
What is Baghdad?
Upper-class customs of female seclusion and face covering were absorbed by Arab armies from these two empires.
What are the Byzantine and Sasanian Persian Empires?
Sunni Muslims make up this percentage range of total Muslims worldwide.
What is 85% to 90%?
According to tradition, Prophet Muhammad received a revelation from the angel Gabriel at age 40 in this location.
What is the Cave of Hira?
Supporters of leadership remaining within Muhammed's family favored this cousin and son-in-law, eventually associated with Shia Islam.
Who is Ali ibn Abi Talib?
This language became an important administrative language as the Umayyad Caliphate expanded rapidly.
What is Arabic?
This building in Jerusalem utilized an octagonal layout and brilliant mosaics to assert a new imperial and spiritual presence.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
Only around this percentage of the world's Muslims live in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region.
What is 20%?
The revelations between Muhammad and the angel Gabriel continued for many years in the Quran.
What is 22 years?
In 680 CE, Husayn ibn Ali rejected the legitimacy of this Umayyad ruler before being killed at the Battle of Karbala.
Who is Yazid I?
Muslim merchants established communities along this specific trade route to spread Islam into West Africa.
What is Trans-Saharan trade?
This mathematician revolutionized global calculation methods by pioneering algebra and popularizing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
Around this percentage of all Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region.
What is 60%?
The Hijra was the migration of Islam's followers into this city, which was subsequently renamed Medina.
What is Yathrib?
Early Muslims prioritized consensus among tribal elders during the Rashidun Era through this elective system.
What is Shura?
Teachers of this mystical tradition emphasizing closeness to God, helped spread Islam in South Asia, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.
What is Sufism?
While the Safavids built a Twelver Shia state, this massive enterprise represented a major Sunni legal codification.
What is the Fatawa ‘Alamgiri?
Unlike Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, these two belief systems mentioned in the text do not have central gods or a God.
What are Buddhism and Chinese philosophies?