People and Places
The angel messenger who appears to Muhammad.
Who is Gabriel?
The English translation of the name "Islam."
What is "submission", or "peace"?
The number of times per day good Muslims are told to pray.
What are five?
The one-sentence statement of faith, or its shortened version.
What is "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is His Prophet" (or "one God, Muhammad Prophet")?
In the beginning of the movie "Muhammad: The Last Prophet," any one of these is an example of a bad condition in Meccan society that gave rise to Islam's response.
What is any of the following:gambling; slavery; idolatry; ill treatment of women and the poor; sorcery; charging religious pilgrims lots of money to visit the Kabah?
Birth and death years of the Prophet Muhammad.
When are 570 - 632?
The name of Muhammad's wife (and former boss) and the first convert to Islam.
Who is Khadijah?
Islam, the second largest religion in the world, has over this many followers.
What are 1.5 billion?
The month-long practice of fasting from food and drink during daylight hours.
What is Ramadan?
The main holy book of Islam.
What is the Koran (Qu'ran)?
The same angel who appears to Muhammad also appeared to key woman of Christianity about 600 years earlier.
Who is Mary (mother of Jesus)?
Muhammad's age when he received his first heavenly revelation.
What is 40 years old? (In the year 610)
The two main groups of Muslims.
Who are Sunni and Shi'a?
"Allah" literally means this.
What is "The God"?
The city to which pilgrims of the Muslim faith are told they should travel to at least once in their lifetimes.
Where is Mecca?
The meaning of the word "Koran" (Qu'ran).
What is "revelation" or "recitation"?
The King of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) gave this example of why Islam and Christianity are different but from the same source (God).
What is the Analogy of the Two Lights?
The Arabic name of the pivotal event in the year 622 in which Muhammad and his followers flee their home city of Mecca, only to have their movement grow leaps and bounds after their arrival in Medina. It is from this event that years in Islam are measured.
What is the Hijrah? (The Fleeing)
The largest Muslim country by population in the world today.
What is Indonesia?
Non-Muslim writings that Islam nonetheless considers holy.
What are the Torah, Psalms, and Gospels?
The general name for belief in one God only.
What is monotheism?
Why Muslims strongly do NOT consider Muhammad the FOUNDER of their faith.
What is that Muhammad was RECOVERING the ancient faith that God had shown in the past, thus Muhammad was not making up a false belief?
Why Muhammad is not shown in film and artwork.
What is high respect for the Prophet?
The span of years marking the geographic great expansion of Islam out of the Arabian Peninsula, east to India, and west across North Africa to Morocco and up into Europe into Spain.
When are 650-750?
The black cube-like structure in Mecca that is the epicenter of worship for Muslims around the world, and is said to have been built by Abraham and his older son Ishmael.
What is the Ka'bah?
The notable advancements from Islam that we enjoy today from the Golden Age of Islam.
What are ancient Greek literature, lenses, Arabic numerals, popularizing the uses of paper, the checking system, and consumables like coffee and pepper?
The three holy cities of Islam.
What are Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem?
The Five Pillars of Islam.
What are Witnessing (Shahadah), Prayer (Salah), Charity (Zakat), Fasting (Sawm), and Pilgrimage (Hajj)?
In the BBC kids' video on Islam, this was the big blowout celebration that ends Ramadan that resembles a mixture of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What is Eid (al-Fitr)?
The span of years of the Golden Age of Islam, at the same time as the Dark Ages in Christian Europe.
When are 750-1500?