taking something from one culture and adjusting it to make it your own
What is appropriate?
100
a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
What is an icon?
100
held by Muslims to be the chief prophet of God.
Who is Muhammad?
100
a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
What is a monastery?
100
religious journey
What is a pilgrimage?
200
furnish (a room or building) again or differently
What is refurnish?
200
a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome.
What is a squinch?
200
the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.
What is the Qur'an?
200
a room set apart for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied.
What is a scriptorium?
200
a container for holy relics
What is a reliquary?
300
the central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation.
What is nave?
300
the rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts.
What is iconoclasm?
300
a courtyard in Islamic architecture
What is a Sahn?
300
method of metal casting in which a molten metal is poured into a mold that has been created by means of a wax model. Once the mold is made, the wax model is melted and drained away.
What is lost wax casting?
300
a wedge-shaped or tapered stone used to construct an arch
What is a voussoirs?
400
something crescent-shaped, in particular
What is a lunette?
400
a curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches.
What are pendentives?
400
in Islam, the Prophet Muhammad's ____ ________ from Mecca to Jerusalem.
What is the Night Journey?
400
the principle or technique by which artistic representations are made to resemble real objects or to give an appearance of space by the use of perspective
What is illusionism?
400
a supporting arch or rib that runs across a vault from side to side, dividing the bays.
What is a transverse arch?
500
a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint.
What is a nimbus?
500
In its extreme form, ________ is a political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor, is also the supreme head of the church.
What is caesaropapism?
500
shahada (confession of faith), salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), sawm (fasting, especially during the month of Ramadan), and hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca).
What is the 5 pillars of Islam?
500
fine parchment made originally from the skin of a calf
What is vellum?
500
a unit of form in architecture which has several meanings relating to the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment