Tenets
Some cultures use these to support buildings, Muslims use them to guide their lives
What are the Five Pillars?
First caliph after the death of Muhammad, he focused on re-uniting the tribes in Arabia
Who is Abu Bakr?
“one who submits”
What is a Muslim?
A religion born in India which blended Islam and Hinduism
What is Sikhism?
Muhammad was forced to flee his birth town to Medina, this is known as
What is the hijra?
Muhammad rocked the caravan stop by proclaiming this, a drastic change for the Bedouins and Arab trading peoples
What is there is only one god?
Which of the following were never brought under Islamic rule by the caliphs: North Africa, Iberian peninsula, or Eastern Europe
What is Eastern Europe?
A unified community connected through a common faith and devoid of tribal or ethnic ties
What is umma?
The dominant language of Muslims in Anatolia
What is Turkish?
Famous Muslim Mosque built on an important Jewish site in Jerusalem
What is Dome of the Rock?
Many of Muhammad’s ideas are similar to Judaism and Christianity, possibly because this messenger played a vital role in the early stages of their development
What is Gabriel?
The Golden Age of Islam occurred during this caliphate because of the presence of scholarship and cosmopolitan nature of its capital city, Baghdad
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The belief that Ali was the righteous successor to Muhammad brought about what two divisions of Islam
What is Sunni and Shi’a/Shi’ite?
Prophet whom Muslims accept and who Christians believed redeemed their sins
Who is Jesus?
Capital city of Spain where Islamic arts, science, and literature flourished
What is Córdoba?
Hajj, or pilgrimage, maintains that Muslims should journey to Mecca at least one time in their lifetime to see this
What is the Ka’ba Stone?
Non-Arab Muslim converts (mawli) were treated as less than the Arab converts, this was a problem for which caliphate
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
Muslims who believe the caliph should be chosen by and from the umma based on the tradition of the first four caliphs, were of what sect
Who are Sunnis?
Branch of mathematics invented by Arab Muslim scholars
What is algebra
Which region of the world integrated Islamic culture peacefully?
What is West Africa?
These behaviors make up the Five Pillars, the basic ideas of behavior for followers of Islam
What are faith, prayer, charity, pilgrimage, and fasting?
Like the Romans and Hans before them, the Abbasids declined in part due to this, they became victims of their own success
What is were too large to be governed effectively?
This branch of Islam practiced intense rituals, sometimes spinning in circles for hours through which they sought a direct connection with Allah
Who are Sufis?
Group of religious scholars that compiled knowledge
Who are the ulama?
What country in the world today has the largest population of Muslims?
What is Indonesia?