Beliefs
The Arabic word for God
Who is Allah?
An Islamic house of worship.
What is a Mosque?
a warrior for Islam
What is a Ghazi?
A center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800s
What is the House of Wisdom?
The art of beautiful handwriting.
What is Calligraphy?
The Islamic Holy book.
What is the Qur'an?
This is a pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims.
What is the Hajj?
a Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means
What is a Sufi?
a follower of Osman, the leader who founded a small Muslim state in Anatolia between 1299 and 1326
What is an Ottoman?
A member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire
What is a Janissary?
This means “submission to the will of Allah”, 2nd largest religion in the world
What is Islam?
Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Yathrib (Medina) in AD 622
What is the Hijrah?
A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government
What is a Caliph?
"overlord" or "one with power"; title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire
What is a Sultan?
Ruler who halted the Ottoman expansion and attacked Delhi (1370)
Who is Timur the Lame?
This is a follower of Islam, one who has submitted
What is a Muslim?
an Islamic model for living, based on the life of Muhammad
What is the Sunna
the branch of Islam whose member acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad
Who are the Sunni?
A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established in the eighth century AD
What is Al-Andalus?
Ottoman ruler who conquered Constantinople (1451)
Who is Mehmed II?
He is known as the Prophet, according to his followers God revealed teachings to him through Gabriel
Who is Muhammad?
a body of law governing the lives of Muslims
the branch of Islam who member acknowledges Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad
Who are the Shi'a?
A dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from AD 750 to 1258
Who are the Abbasids?
Ottoman ruler known as the Lawgiver, ruled when the Ottoman Empire was largest (1520)
Who was Suleyman the Lawgiver?