Origins
This is the birthplace of Muhammad
What is the city of Mecca?
The word Muslim means one who does this.
What is surrenders to God?
These are the two branches of Islam.
What are the Sunni and the Shi'a?
When Muslims say, “There is no god but Allah,” they are affirming their belief and worshipping in this.
What is monotheism?
This important concept in mathematics came to the Muslim lands from India.
What is zero?
This allowed for the wealth and the diffusion of the Arabic langrage and Islam throughout the Muslim world.
What are trade routes?
The Qur’an is the holy book of Islam because of this.
What is it records the words of God spoken by Gabriel?
This question separated the Sunnis from the Shi’a?
Who would be the Caliph?
This is a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a Muslim's lifetime.
What is a Hajj?
Muslims contributed to European knowledge by preserving the literature, architecture, and philosophy of these two cultures.
What are the Roman and Greek cultures?
This is who told Muhammad that Allah wanted him to teach monotheism.
Who is the Angel Jibril or Gabriel?
This a book that tells of the actions and words of Muhammad.
What is the Sunnah?
This Muslim group believed the Caliph should be a descendent of Muhammad?
Who are the Shi'a?
This is what Muslims do during the month of Ramadan.
What is fast or not eating during the day?
Medieval Muslims adapted and improved the astrolabe to use for this purpose.
What is navigation?
A large Groups of Bedouins, using camels, would travel in these to trade in far off places.
What are caravan?
According to Islamic teachings, this was the message the angel Gabriel told Muhammad to tell the people.
What is Allah is the only God?
This a record of the actions and words of Muhammad.
What is the hadith?
This is what Muslims must do to help the poor.
What is give money or alms?
Through trade, missionaries, and military victories, these two areas of Muslim life were spread from central Asia to North Africa to Spain.
What are Islam and the Arabic Language?
The leaders of Mecca wanted to keep practicing this way of worshipping.
What is polytheism?
These are two things that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have in common.
What are they believe in one God and they have a holy book?
This is what non-Muslims did to remain living in the Muslim world.
What is they must pay a tax?
This is what Muslims must do five times a day facing toward Mecca.
What is pray?
These places of worship used elements of the dome, minarets, arches, and mosaics.
What is a mosque?