Ths cube shaped building predates Islam, once contained many idols, and is believed by Muslims to be a sacred place.
What is the Ka'bah?
100
This is the Islamic declaration that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.
What is the Shahadah?
100
This group chooses their leader by consensus or majority vote.
What is the Sunni tradition?
100
While only a small percentage (about 10%) of its population is Muslim, its size makes it a major Muslim country worldwide.
What is India?
100
The Muslim place of worship.
What is a mosque?
200
Before Muhammad, Arab tribes held to this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
200
The five times daily action is a requirement for all Muslims who are able.
What is prayer? Salat?
200
This division of Islam follows a caliph or leader taken from the family of Muhammad, going back to his son in law, Ali.
What is the Shi'ites?
200
This Island nation in Asia, has one of the highest Muslim populations in the world.
What is Indonesia.
200
The headscarf worn by many Muslim women, and a sign for some of the secondary place of Muslim women in their culture, and for others, modesty.
What is the hijab?
300
This migration from Mecca to Medina by Muhammad and his followers marks year "0" on the Muslim calendar.
What is the hijrah?
300
Islamic law states that each Muslim must give 2.5% of their surplus wealth each year to this.
What is alms/Zakat?
300
This group formed an alliance with the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia to enforce a strict, puritanical code of Islam.
What is the Wahabbism movement?
300
This heavily country is next door to Afghanistan on the east, and is in the Northwest corner of India; capital is Islamabad.
What is Pakistan?
300
The leader of a Muslim mosque.
What is an imman?
400
In addition to the Koran, these traditions and teachings of Muhammad are also considered a secondary source of law for Muslims.
What is the hadiths?
400
This must be done for the entire month of Ramadan, between dawn till dusk.
What is fasting? Sawn?
400
This group once had Malcolm X as their spokesperson, and believed that Islam should be used to unite African Americans against the whites in the US.
What is the Nation of Islam?
400
This heavily Shi'ite country was the site of Islamic Revolution led by mullahs/clerics in 1979 and the site of Not Without My Daughter.
What is Iran?
400
Islamic "law" based on the Koran and sometimes including harsh punishments for crimes such as theft and adultery.
What is Shari'ah?
500
This man, who was also Muhammad's father in law, succeeded him as leader in the Sunni tradition.
Who is Abu Bakr?
500
All Muslims with the health and means, must make this journey at least once in their lives.
What is the Hajj/Pilgrimage to Mecca?
500
This strong, anti Western movement tried to take Egypt into a Shariah law system and make it a strict, Islamist state.
What is Q'tabism?
500
A majority Shi'ite country next to Iran on the West, which is the site of many key locations in Islamic history.
What is Iraq?
500
"Struggle:" can either refer to spiritual struggle against sin, or more commonly, the armed conflict between the domain of Islam and non Muslim government or people.