Who am I?
Islamic Traditions
Geography of Islam
Making Islamic Connections
Monotheism
100
Founder of Islam.
Who is Mohammed?
100
The sacred text of Islam.
What is the Quran?
100
The geographic location of Mecca & Medina.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
100
A center of trade and learning in West Africa, similar to Mecca.
What is Timbuktu?
100
People who believe in Islam.
Who are Muslims?
200
Responsible for the spread of Islam in Mali and made a Hajj with a whole bunch of gold
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
The People of the Book, highly respected by Muslims.
Who are Jews and Christians?
200
The city where Islam was founded & towards where all Muslims pray.
What is Mecca?
200
Islamic rule tolerated this but charged tariff.
What is religious toleration?
200
The city Mohammed was exiled to after being kicked out of Mecca.
What is Medina?
300
Muslim scholar who spread Islam during his world travels.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
300
Faith, Prayer, Almsgiving (Charity), Fasting during Ramadan, Pilgrimage.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam (in English)?
300
The part of Africa were the African empires who helped spread Islam.
What is West Africa?
300
Two reasons for the rise of Islam.
What are spiritual conversion and military conquest?
300
Allah.
What is God called in the Islamic tradition?
400
Muslim political leader.
Who is a caliph?
400
The two Muslim factions who split after Mohammed's death.
Who are the Sunnis and Shiites?
400
The society where Arabic numerals originated and had their own "golden age"
What is the Indian Gupta Empire?
400
Benin participated
What is the slave trade?
400
Two areas of academics advanced by the Islamic Empire during the Islamic Golden Age.
What are science & mathematics?
500
Muslim religious leader.
Who is an Imam?
500
Shada, Shalat, Zakat, Sawam, Hajj.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam (in Arabic)?
500
NaCL 4 Au
What is the gold and salt trade?
500
Sharia.
What is Islamic Law?
500
A mosque.
What is the building where Muslims go to worship?
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