The Religion of Islam
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
This term means a resident of the Arabian Peninsula and a speaker of Arabic.
What is Arab?
This feature is the most prominent feature of a mosque.
What is a minaret?
A religion based on the teachings of Muhammad.
What is Islam?
The first four caliphs were close friends or relatives of _______.
Who is Muhammad?
What is Muhammad?
The home to the Arab people.
What is Arabia?
The primary language of scientific and philosophical texts during the Islamic Golden Age.
a Muslim leader that means "successor"
What is a caliph?
This city was the capital during the rule of the Abbasids. It was located along the Tigris River.
What is Baghdad?
This name is given to the followers of Islam.
What are muslims?
Unlike the other groups we have learned about this year (Greeks and Romans), this group had some rights in Muslim society.
What are slaves?
This place is a translation and research center in Baghdad.
What is the House of Wisdom?
the Seljuk leader that means "holder of power"
What is a sultan?
The first dynasty of caliphs AFTER the first four caliphs who ruled from Damascus.
What are the Umayyads?
The birthplace of Muhammad.
What is Mecca?
Arabia is this type of landform that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
This culture had Arabic numbers that Europeans spread to Persian and Arab scholars.
A Muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
This group of people captured the city of Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?
Two groups in the Islamic religion are the Shia and _____.
What is Sunni?
Despite the importance of cities, most Muslims were farmers and lived here.
What are villages?
Persian scholar who invented Algebra.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
A marketplace
What is a bazaar?
This caliph (of the first 4 caliphs) was known for organizing a navy while he was in charge.
Who is Uthman?