Names
The founder and messenger of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
The first year of the Muslim calendar, which falls on the year that Muhammad's early Muslim community moved from Mecca to Medina
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is 622? What is the hijra?
Charity given once a year based on a certain kind of a Muslim's financial ability
What is Zakat?
A person whom all three monotheistic traditions consider the patriarch of their religion.
Who is Abraham?
The two parts of an historical report in the early Islamic histories and in the Hadith.
What are the chain of transmitters and what is the story/report?
A famous early historian who compiled a universal history
Who is al-Tabari?
The name of the battle during the early Islamic conquests where the Greeks and their allies were tied together by chains to keep them from running away.
What is the Battle of Yarmuk?
The monthlong abstinence from sun up to sun down of food, drink, bad language, etc.
What is fasting during Ramadan?
The names of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim places of worship.
What is a temple, a church, and a masjid/mosque?
The reasons for the importance of Jerusalem for all three monotheistic traditions.
What are the Jewish 2nd Temple, the site of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, and Muhammad's Night Journey through the seven heavens?
A pious and humble ruler during the Umayyad Dynasty
Who is Umar II?
The document created at the meeting of Abd al-Aziz, Commander of the Muslim forces, with the Christian King Theodomir of southern Spain to outline the terms of the Christians' surrender.
What is the Treaty of Tudmir?
One of the rituals where pilgrims run between the two hills of Safa and Marwa to commemorate Hagar's frantic search for water that is practiced as one of many rituals during this once a year event.
What is the Hajj?
Because they are all considered monotheists with a sacred scripture [name?], according to Muslim law they were given a certain protected status and called [name?].
What are people of the book and what is a dhimmi?
Three ways that Muslims used during the early conquests of Islam to build their empire.
What are violence, treaties, incentives, allowing People of the Book to keep their religion, etc.?
The third Rightly Guided Caliph who ordered an official version of the Quran to be compiled
Who is Uthman?
A religious journey made to visit a holy person's grave or an important place.
What is a pilgrimage?
Ms. Max was only able to acquire this small poster in Fez when challenged to say these words.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are the words of the Shahada? There is no god but God/Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God/Allah.
Muslims rely on this body of texts to guide them in their lives and to give a context to the Quranic revelations.
What is the Hadith?
By 750 CE the Muslim armies had managed to accomplish something that no other previous empire had.
What is an empire with a landmass larger than any other empire until that time, including the Roman Empire?
Two of the creators of ingenious devices and automata during the Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate
Who are the Banu Musa brothers?
Who is al-Jazari (half points)?
The famous journey from Jerusalem to the seven heavens that Muhammad took to come face to face with God (according to the reports).
What is Muhammad's Night Journey and Ascent?
This ritual requires Muslims to stand side by side and repeat a series of motions including prostration and to also listen to a sermon by an imam.
What is Friday congregational prayer?
The first act required by God to his Chosen People (according to the Torah/Bible) as a sign that they accepted their covenant with God.
What is circumcision?
Some of Umar II excellent qualities and examples to give as evidence.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are his his refusal to ride any horse but his own trusted horse (rather than a gift from the Caliph's stables), his refusal to take the former Caliph's residence away from the family that already lived there (chose his own tent instead), and his perfect Arabic (he didn't need to make more than one draft of his first important official document).