5 Pillars
Muslims should undertake this pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime.
What is the hajj?
This cube used to hold hundreds of idols used in Arabian tribal worship.
What is the Kaaba?
A Muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
x and y oh my! This type of math was developed by Islamic mathematicians.
What is algebra?
This person was appointed as Muhammad's successor after his death.
Who is nobody?
The Five Pillars of Islam.
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
This frame story was very popular during the Abassid Caliphate.
What is The One Thousand and One Nights?
This Moroccan figure traveled around Africa, Asia, and Spain and wrote about his in his valuable book called Travels.
Who was Ibn Battuta?
What is pay a poll tax?
What is almsgiving (zakat)?
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
This style of art that involves beautiful handwriting emerged to avoid human imagery.
What is calligraphy?
Instead of Roman numerals, these numerals were used by Muslim scholars.
What are Arabic numerals?
Those suffering persecution under the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires for not following the state religion led to what development when Muslim invaders arrived?
What is the spread of Islam?
The repetitiveness of this pillar gave rise to repetitive geometric patterns in Islamic Art.
What is prayer (salat)?
Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina is known as this.
What is the Hijrah?
This library/academy in Baghdad united scholars across cultures where they worked to translate texts.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This field of medicine was advanced by a Muslim doctor in Spain where the tradition of not physically impacting the human body was overlooked.
What is surgery?
The Sunni/Shia split was caused by this debate.
What is who should succeed Muhammad?
In the pillar Belief (imam), this is what is spoken when Muslims profess their belief in Allah.
What is the shahadah?
Allah is the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians, who are known to Muslims as this.
Who are the People of the Book?
This magnificent mosque began as a church built by Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire.
This great Muslim philosopher inspired later great European philosophers with his ideas about faith and reason that were "ahead of his time."
Who was Ibn Rushd?
What is first by conquest, then by trade?