5 Pillars
This Pillar is a Specific Statement of Faith: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet"
Statement of Belief
This Man is the Prophet of Islam
Muhammad
This is the Peninsula that Islam was founded in
The Arabian Peninsula
Name one accomplishment that happened during the Islamic Empire.
Answers Vary
The Holy Book of Islam
The Quran
This Pillar says that Muslims must offer help to the poor/those in need.
Charity/almsgiving
Muslims believe Muhammad received a ___________ from the Angel Gabriel
A Vision/revelation
This is the term for a small body of water found in the middle of a desert.
Oasis
The Rulers of early Islamic Empires (Abassids, Umayyads) were called this.
The Caliphs
An Islamic place of Worship
A Mosque
Muslims are expected to Pray this many times per day.
5
The Kaaba
This City is the Birthplace of Muhammad
Mecca
Following Muhammad's Death, Islam split into these two Groups
Sunnis and Shias
Traders traveled through the desert traveled in these for protection.
caravans
This Islamic Holy Month involves the practice of Fasting each day.
Ramadan
Which City did Muhammad flee to after being ran out of Mecca?
Medina
This is a strip of Land surrounded by water on 3 sides
Peninsula
Why did Islam split into two groups?
Disagreement over who should succeed (take over) after Muhammad's death.
Like the Silk Road, the Islamic Empire covered which three continents?
Asia, Africa, Europe
This is the Arabic term for the Islamic Pilgrimage to the City of Mecca.
HAJJ
Got followers to go with him to take the city of Mecca back.
This type of ecosystem is the most common in the Arabian Desert.
Desert
The Islamic Empire had this type of government in which the rules of the religion are also the rules of the government.
Theocracy
The fact that the Islamic Culture created the House of Knowledge shows that their culture highly valued what?
Education