Key Terms
This term refers to a follower of the Islamic faith.
What is a Muslim?
This Pillar involves continuous prayer and worship throughout someone’s life.
What is Salat?
The way Muslims treat their conquered peoples.
How is fairly?
This is how the women were treated in the Empire.
How was “2nd Class”?
This man was the greatest Jewish Philosopher in history.
Who was Moses Ben Maimonides?
This term is the Arabic term for God.
What is Allah?
This pillar refers to giving to the needy.
What is Zakat?
This term references the struggle against non-believers.
What is Jihad?
These were the four social classes in the Muslim Empire.
What were the upper class, the protected people, the second class, and slaves.
This man was the greatest Muslim Physician in the world.
Who was Al-razi?
This building is an Islamic house of worship.
What is a Mosque?
This pillar occurs during the ninth month of the Islamic calender.
What is Sawm?
These are two major reasons that contributed to their conquest to the north.
What are well disciplined soldiers and the weakness of Byzantine Empire?
This is the name of a tool made to chart the sky.
What is an astrolabe?
This man created the foundation of Algebra.
Who was Al-Khwarizmi?
This word refers to a successor to Muhammad.
What is a Caliph?
This pillar refers to a sacred pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Hajj?
This slip of paper could be exchanged with any other bank in the empire.
What is a Sakk?
This device was made to calculate the time of day.
What is an Armillary Sphere?
This man was criticized for trying to blend Aristotle’s and Plato’s views with those of Islam.
Who was Ibn Rushd?
This word refers to a law based on Islam.
What is Shari’a?
This pillar is the greatest pillar in Islam, and refers to a testimony of faith.
What is Shahaadah?
What were the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean?
This Caliph opened the House of Wisdom.
Who was Caliph al-Ma’mun?
This Astronomer produced a book called optics.
Who was Ibn Al-Haytham?