Five Pillars of Islam
Muslims believe in this god.
Who is Allah?
Prophet Muhammad created this list of rules to protect all inhabitants of Medina.
What is the Constitution of Medina?
This is the ruler of the Muslim community.
What is a caliph?
This is the land and community ruled by a caliph.
What is a caliphate?
This man was commanded to build an ark.
Who is Noah?
Muslims pray five times a day facing in this direction.
What is the direction towards Mecca?
After the Prophet Muhammad had revelations from Allah at the age of 40, this is what the people of Mecca did to him.
This man is Prophet Muhammad's cousin and the fourth of the “Rightly Guided” (rāshidūn) caliphs.
Who is Ali?
This is the capital were the Abbasid Dynasty ruled.
What is Baghdad?
Moses is so angry when he sees the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf, that he destroys these items.
What are the stone tablets? (with the 10 commandments written on them)
Muslims give up food and drink during the daylight hours of this holiday.
What is Ramadan?
What is zero? (none)
This group helped the Umayyad Empire to expand.
What is the Syrian army? This military support enabled the Umayyad to expand the empire while simultaneously controlling Arab factions.
The Abbasid political system weakened in later years when this group took control of Baghdad and ruled the Empire.
Who were the Seljuq Turkmen?
This is a list of sources (books, articles, websites, etc.) with short paragraph about each source that should be at the end of your research paper.
What is an annotated bibliography?
This is Hajj.
What is to perform a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime?
When Prophet Muhammad and his army marched into Mecca in 630, this is what he did to the Kaaba.
What is: he destroyed the pagan idols there?
This Byzantine emperor defeated Umayyad armies in 717, beginning the decline of Umayyad power.
Who is Emperor Leo III?
This process helped scholars share their knowledge and writings during the golden age of Muslim achievement.
What is translating? (or transcribing?)
This is the name for the state of enlightenment, to which all Buddhists aspire to reach.
What is Nirvana?
This is Zakat.
What is a religious duty for all Muslims to give alms or charity?
When Prophet Muhammad and his army marched into Mecca in 630, this is what he did to the people of Mecca.
What is he showed them mercy instead of killing the men and selling the women and children into slavery?
The Umayyad clan were hunted down and one member escaped. He fled to this location and established the Umayyad dynasty, which became a caliphate in 929.
What is Córdoba, Spain?
The creativity that had flowed from Baghdad for four centuries came to a crashing halt in 1258, when this group invaded Mesopotamia and destroyed the city of Baghdad.
This tribe rallied to Moses and helped him kill anyone who was worshipping the Golden Calf.
Who are the Levites?