Vocabulary
Religious Practices
Muslim Daily Life
Muslim Rule and Expansion
People and Groups
100
This is the rule by a caliph.
What is caliphate?
100
This gives rules for personal and religious actions and behaviors.
What is the Sharia?
100
This class of Muslims is honored because Muhammad had been part of this class.
What is the trading class?
100
Through warfare and the signing of treaties, Arab armies managed to expand into parts of these places.
What are Central and South Asia?
100
This group formed a dynasty, which meant that future rulers would be chosen from within the family.
Who are the Umayyads?
200
This is being able to rise to a higher position in society.
What is social mobility?
200
This is the part of the mosque deigned for calling the faithful.
What is a minaret?
200
The building of these by Muslim rulers helped the spread of ideas in the Islamic world.
What are libraries and academies?
200
Arab army camps grew into these.
What are cities?
200
This group of people in the Islamic world shared ideas and culture at the souk.
Who are merchants?
300
This is an Arabic word that means "the way that leads to God."
What is Sharia?
300
This is the direction toward which a prayer hall faces.
What is Mecca?
300
Merchants from many places came here to trade goods and share ideas and culture.
What is the souk?
300
An example of cultural mixing within Muslim civilizations was when this group accepted Islam and learned the Arabic language.
Who are Non-Arabs?
300
This person was a member of the trading class.
Who is Muhammaad?
400
This is an instrument that measures and plots the position of stars.
What is an astrolabe?
400
The Qur'an and the Sunnah promised many rewards. The books did not promise this to women.
What is equal treatment?
400
Muslim scholars borrowed the idea of zero and the decimals from Hindus in India. The idea later spread to Europe, an example of this.
What is cultural blending?
400
This place was surrounded by oceans or seas which allowed for easy trade.
What is Arabia?
400
This person wrote an encyclopedia of diseases and medical treatments.
Who is Ibn Sina?
500
This is the practice of marrying more than one person.
What is polygamy?
500
The Qur'an and Sunnah required Muslims to care for this group of people.
Who are the poor?
500
This banking practice improved the Muslim trade routes.
What is the practice of letters of credit?
500
Trade along this brought Muslim traders into Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
500
This is a famous Sufi poet.
Who is Rumi?
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