Who Goes There?
I'm the only prophet of Islam, and I had some visions and a crazy trip to heaven and back. I was also born in Mecca, but fled when they tried to kill me there.
Who was Muhammad
Where is Mecca?
A shrine built on a sacred Jewish site, with a recognizable shape and a controversial location.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
The sacred book of scripture for the Muslim people.
What is the Qu'ran?
What is Muslim?
The father of Ishmael, and a patriarch claimed by Muslims to be the first Muslim. Muslims also believe he built the Ka'aba.
Who was Abraham/Ibrahim?
The smaller village/town where Jews, Arabs, and Muslims all lived together under the leadership of the Prophet during the early years of Islam.
Where is Medina?
A big black cube that Muslims like to walk around. It is in a pretty important city for Islam too. It's a shrine to Allah, but many gods have inhabited it over the centuries.
What is the Ka'aba?
The word for the leader of the Muslim people, following the death of the Prophet.
What is a Caliph?
A valley whose floor becomes a river or stream during times of rain.
What is a wadi?
I'm the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law. Some say I shouldn't rule, but I say I should. I'm fitna fight the Prophet's widow over it too.
Who was Ali?
A place said to have been built on the same spot where Muhammad was taken up to visit heaven and meet Moses.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
The civil war over who would be the ruler of the Arabs. One of the sides found its first leader in the widow of the Prophet.
The first wife of the Prophet. She was a Quraysh merchant and widow fifteen years older than him. She bore the Prophet three children and was his only wife during her lifetime.
Who was Khadija?
I lost the Prophet's signet ring down a well, and I also lost the love of the people. I also compiled writings to form the first written Qu'ran.
Who was Uthman the Caliph?
The city Arabs took possession of in 642, about when the Lombards were taking over Italy. (hint: This city may have had a lot of book clubs because it certainly had a lot of books. A shame that the readers got burnt out.)
Where is Alexandria, Egypt?
A structure of unknown age that has been built and rebuilt numerous times. Traditions about it go back as far as to the time of Adam and Eve.
What is the Night Journey?
The "Seceders" who rebelled against the rule of Ali and eventually killed him.
What are the Kharijis?
A city where good Muslims face five times a day for prayer. It is also a place that Muslims are required to visit before they die if possible.
Where is Mecca?
What is the river which the Arabs came to on the Western side of India after a long trek through the desert, only to meet an army there waiting for them.
What is the Indus River?
The official start to the Muslim calendar and the name given to the night the Prophet fled his birthplace to stay alive.
What is the Hijra?
The North African group whom the Arabs enslaved when forming a Navy. The Arabs gave them their name and used them to pay tribute in Egypt.
Who were the Berbers?