Vocab
The holy book of Islam is the ____________.
Quran
Muhammad’s move from Mecca to Medina is called the ____________.
Hijra
he Arabic word for “algebra” is ____________.
al-jabr
All 3 Abrahamic religions are ____________.
monotheistic
Name the 5 Pillars of Islam.
Faith (Shahada – belief in one God, Allah, and Muhammad as his prophet)
Prayer (Salat – five times a day)
Almsgiving (Zakat – giving to the poor)
Fasting (Sawm – during Ramadan)
Pilgrimage (Hajj – to Mecca)
The Islamic legal code is called ____________
Sharia
After the Gupta Empire fell, South Asia broke into ____________.
smallkingdoms
Who wrote the Canon of Medicine?
Ibn Sina / Avicenna
The Hajj unites Muslims because ____________.
all Muslims travel to Mecca
Name 2 Muslim contributions to math or science.
Algebra (from al-jabr)
Arabic numerals (including the number zero)
Astronomy (star charts, measuring Earth’s circumference)
Medicine (Canon of Medicine, hospitals, surgical practices)
A follower of Islam is called a ____________.
Muslim
Sunnis believed leaders should be chosen for ____________.
ability/consensus
Al-Idrisi was famous for making ____________.
maps
The Quran unites Muslims because ____________.
shared holy book / rules
Name 2 trade items carried by caravans.
Spices
Silk
Gold
Books and paper
Textiles
The split in Islam was between ____________ and ____________.
(Sunnis/Shias
Shias believed leaders should be ____________.
Muhammad’s relatives
Astronomy helped Muslims determine ____________.
prayer times & navigation
One similarity between Islam and Christianity is ____________.
belief in one God, prophets, etc.
Name 2 cities important in Islamic history.
Mecca (birthplace of Muhammad, site of the Kaaba)
Medina (Hijra destination, first Muslim community)
Baghdad (Abbasid capital, center of trade and learning)
Damascus (Umayyad capital)
Cordoba (center of Islamic Spain)
The Abbasid capital, famous for trade and learning, was ____________.
Baghdad
Name one empire that prospered from trade routes across Asia and Africa.
Abbasid / Delhi Sultanate, etc
Islamic scholars preserved the works of ____________ and ____________.
Greece and Rome
One difference between Islam and Judaism is ____________.
Muslims follow Muhammad, Jews don’t, etc.
This Muslim scholar wrote the Canon of Medicine, a book used in Europe for centuries.
Who is Ibn Sina (Avicenna)?