Muhammad
Muslim Culture and Society
Caliph Families
Beliefs and Practices
Islamic Terms
100
This city was the original home of Muhammad and became Islam's most holy city.
What is Mecca?
100
al-Khwarizimi developed an academic subject called al-jabr. What is the name of that subject today?
What is algebra?
100
The Abbasid caliphate moved the capital from Damascus to which city?
What is Baghdad?
100
Name the Five Pillars of Islam.
What are Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage?
100
In Arabic, this means "God".
Who is Allah?
200
This refers to the migration in 622 of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (Medina).
What is the Hijrah?
200
Why was the House of Wisdom significant?
Scholars worked together to translate scientific and philosophical texts into Arabic.
200
This caliphate was named after Muhammad's daughter and was established in North Africa.
What is the Fatimid caliphate?
200
This is the system of law that regulates the family life, moral conduct, business life, and community life of Muslims.
What is the Shari'a?
200
This is a type of handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
300
This is Muhammad's example and, as such, is considered a model for living a proper Muslim life.
What is the Sunna?
300
Muslim scientists preferred this method of science for gaining results.
What is experiments in laboratory settings?
300
This caliphate replaced the "rightly guided" caliphs. They also moved the capital to Damascus and began to indulge in a luxurious lifestyle.
What is the Umayyad caliphate?
300
This is the largest division of Islam, and they embrace Muhammad's example as the best guide for how to lead a proper Muslim life.
Who are the Sunni?
300
This is an Islamic house of worship.
What is a mosque?
400
Muslims believe this about Muhammad.
He was the last and greatest of the prophets.
400
The "protected people," of the Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, were members of which class in the Muslim society?
What is the third class?
400
Al-Andalus was the name of the Muslim state formed in southern Spain by this caliphate.
Who are the Umayyads?
400
This group of Muslims pursued a life of poverty and spirituality.
Who were the Sufi?
400
This is the Muslim holy book and is considered to be the true word of God only in its original Arabic version.
What is the Qur'an?
500
What led to internal conflict in Islam after the death of Muhammad?
He had neither specified a successor nor indicated how to choose one.
500
In regards to religion, how were conquered people treated by the Muslim Empire? (If they were tolerant rulers, did they treat non-Muslims different?)
Their religions were tolerated, but restrictions and taxes were imposed.
500
Using a strong bureaucracy, this caliphate was able to control their large empire.
What is the Abbasids?
500
Muslims consider which religious people to be "people of the book"?
Who are Jews and Christians?
500
This means "one who has submitted".
What is a Muslim?
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