Prophets & Beliefs
The central teaching shared by Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, meaning belief in one God.
What is Monotheism?
The Islamic code of law that dictates conduct.
What is Sharia?
This dynasty made Baghdad the cultural and scientific capital of the Muslim world.
What is the Abbasid Dynasty?
The type of landscape best known for the harshness of its hot, dry desert conditions where Islam first emerged.
What is the Arabian desert landscape?
The mathematical concept that Muslim scholars helped spread, proving essential for advanced algebra.
What is the concept of zero?
The term for the flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE.
This vital source of Islamic thought contains the words and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, serving as a model for Muslim life.
What is the Sunnah?
This empire, founded in the 1500s in Persia, is famed for its art, culture, and science.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This city became economically vital because it was a central hub linked to China and other lands by extensive camel caravan routes.
What is Baghdad?
This Persian poet is famous for writing about the mystical, spiritual practice known as Sufism.
Who is Rumi?
The Prophet’s primary role in both establishing the faith (receiving revelations) and spreading it (leading the community).
What is Muhammad’s role?
The name for the required duty of all Muslims to give to the poor, which is one of the Five Pillars.
What is Zakat (or Charity)?
The name of the two major rival branches of Islam that emerged from the political crisis of succession.
What are Sunni and Shiite (or Shia) Muslims?
The two results of Arab Muslim empire expansion that involved increasing population centers and economic activity.
What are the growth of cities and the expansion of trade?
The field of study in which the Muslim scholar Avicenna wrote a famous and highly influential book.
What is medicine?
The specific issue Muhammad and his followers faced in Mecca that forced them to undertake the Hijra to Medina.
What is persecution (or facing opposition)?
These two distinct religious practices/texts help unite the global community of Muslims through a shared ritual and language.
What are the Hajj and the Quran?
The dynasty known for expanding the Muslim empire to its greatest geographic extent.
What is the Umayyad Dynasty?
This economic activity was crucial for the success of Muslim empires, relying on routes that linked continents and led to the growth of cities.
What is trade?
The specific regional culture that the Safavid Empire helped to thrive through patronage of the arts and literature.
What is Persian culture?
The core belief of Islam: there is one God, and this individual was his last prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
The main disagreement that caused the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
What is the dispute over who should be the rightful leader (Caliph) after Muhammad’s death?
The empire whose geographic location was helpful for expansion because it was situated at a meeting point between Asia and Europe.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The two primary forces (military and economic) that contributed to the growth of the Muslim empires.
What are conquest and trade?
The mathematical concept of using algebraic equations to solve problems was also developed by scholars in the Muslim world.
What is algebra?