Geography
Muhammad
Islam
Muslim Rule
Golden Age
100
Area in a desert that has water.
What is an oasis?
100
Muhammad lost his parents as a child. What did he become?
What is an orphan?
100
The followers of Islam.
Who are Muslims?
100
Head of a Muslim community.
What is a caliph?
100
A fight force maintained even in times of peace.
What is a Standing Army?
200
Climate that receives little rainfall
What is arid?
200
The angel that spoke to Muhammad.
Who is Gabriel?
200
The one god of Islam.
Who is Allah?
200
System of departments that carry out the work of government.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
The art of fine handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
300
The peninsula where Islam began.
What is the Arabian peninsula?
300
Besides religious, the roles of Muhammad?
What are political and military?
300
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
300
Group of Muslims that accepted the Umayyads rule.
Who are the Sunnis?
300
Capital of the Abbasid empire.
What is Baghdad?
400
The Rub al-Khali (meaning)
What is the Empty Quarter?
400
The written words and deeds of Muhammad?
What is the Sunnah?
400
The Islamic house of worship.
What is a mosque?
400
Group of Muslims who believed that the caliph should always be a relative of the Prophet (Muhammad).
Who are the Shi'a or Shiites?
400
A four line poem in which the first, second and fourth lines rhyme.
What is a quatrain?
500
The peninsula in Europe where Umayyads Empire expanded.
What is the Iberian peninsula?
500
The move of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib.
What is the Hijrah?
500
Journey to a sacred place (Mecca).
What is a pilgrimage?
500
Abd al-Malik declared that this language was official in all Muslim lands.
What is Arabic?
500
The capital of Muslim Spain.
What is Cordoba?
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