Origins of Islam
The founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
The group that believed that a descendant of Muhammad’s should rule
Who are the Shi'as?
Not the Mediterranean route, trans Saharan route, or Silk Road route
What is the Indian Ocean Route?
Muslim holy building
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all believe in this many Gods
What is one? (monotheism)
The name of the one true God in Arabic
Who is Allah?
The group that support the Umayyads
Who are Sunnis?
Ivory, slaves, and gold came from this continent
What is Africa?
A religious college where scholars studied many disciplines of learning
What are madrasas?
This religion came first
What is Christianity?
The Islamic Holy Text
What is the Quran?
Has the majority of believers
Who are the Sunni?
The language for trade
What is Arabic?
One of the two reasons that the Islamic world became a center for learning
At the intersection of four major trade routes
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the expectation that all Muslims read the Quran
All three religions consider this location an important Holy land
What is Jerusalem?
The basic principles of Islam are outlined here
What are the Five Pillars?
Many in the community believed that this person, a relative of Muhammad, was the legitimate heir
Who is Ali?
Good record-keeping resulted in this new business
What is banking?
One of the greatest travelers of all time
Who is Ibn Battuta?
All three religions recognize the much of content of this Holy book as religious truth
What is the Torah?
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Leadership of the Umma passed to a successor called this
What is a caliph?
The violent death of this person caused the split between Sunni and Shi'a
Who is Hussein?
This invention made traveling the ocean easier
What is the Arab dhow?
One of the greatest thinkers in medicine of all time
Who is Ibn Sina?
All three religions consider this person to be a patriarch
Who is Abraham?