Basic Beliefs
This is how many gods a Muslim believes in.
What is one?
This is the number of Gods that are believed in for a monotheistic religion.
What is one?
The region that was the birthplace for monotheism.
What is the Middle East?
This branch of science focuses on the stars and celestial objects.
What is astronomy?
Why was Baghdad so successful? Many reasons: it was large and diverse, and largely free from attack. Civilizations that were conquered by Islam could keep their religion and culture, so they didn’t rebel. This was one reason that Baghdad was so successful.
What is: cultural tolerance, diversity, or peaceful.
This is the founder of Islam.
Who was Muhammad?
The number of times a Muslim must pray each day.
What are five?
The place of worship for a Muslim.
What is a mosque?
This is beautiful handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
Muslims translated books from Greek, Roman and Sanskrit. This allowed knowledge from past great civilizations to be available to scholars in Baghdad. Later, Europeans were inspired by these classics and began the Renaissance. This is one civilization that Muslims translated books from:
What is Greek, Roman, or Indian (Sanskrit)?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
This is something that Muslims do to help the poor in their communities.
What is "charity?"
The letter that many Muslim achievements start with.
What is "A"?
This device allowed a Muslim to find time of day, latitude and direction, which was important for the Five Pillars.
What is the Astrolabe?
Public hospitals were opened. Muslims understood that germs caused disease and invented antiseptics. Sick and healthy people were separated so germs didn't spread. They invented lenses after studying the science of light and vision. This was one medical advancement of the Muslim Golden Age:
What were hospitals, understanding germs, or making lenses.
This is the way Muslims treated people who they conquered.
What is with tolerance?
During the month of Ramadan, a Muslim must fast from sun up until sun down. This is the definition of the word "Fast" in this sense.
What is not eating?
This is the holy city for Islam.
Where is Mecca?
This is a type of building structure that Muslims learned how to make from the Romans and the Byzantines.
What is a dome?
Islamic mathematicians improved algebra and studied astronomy to learn the measurements of the earth. They developed the astrolabe, a device that told distance, direction, latitude and time of day. This is the reason why Muslims needed to invent the astrolabe:
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is monotheism, OR the Old Testament, OR belief in Abraham and Jesus as Prophets.
The hajj is made to Mecca once in a Muslim's lifetime. Another word for hajj is:
What is a trip?
This is the capital city of the Abbasid Empire.
Where was Baghdad?
The type of math developed by the Muslims to help them find a missing quantity.
What is algebra?
Muslim religious leaders forbade artists to portray God or human figures in religious art.
Muslim artists were highly skilled calligraphers. Calligraphy decorated buildings and pieces of art. Often , Muslim calligraphers used verses of the Quran.
This is why Muslims used Calligraphy to decorate the Qur'an.
What is that drawing pictures of God was not allowed?