Muhammad Musings
This is a recounting of the words and actions of Muhammad.
What is the Sunnah?
The Muslim legal code that dictates how Muslims behave in their day-to-day lives is referred to as this.
What is the Sharia?
This is the main source of Islamic teachings.
What is the Quran?
This was the result of Arab conquests.
What is the spread of Islam inside and outside of the new Arab Muslim empire?
Who is the Chola dynasty?
This is the reason Muhammad and his followers moved from Mecca to Medina.
What is avoiding persecution by opponents in Mecca?
According to this Pillar of Islam, Muslims should give to the poor.
What is Charity?
This is the shared belief between the Shias and the Sunnis.
What is the Quran being the holy book of Islam?
This dynasty expanded the Muslim empire to its greatest extent.
Who are the Umayyad?
Indian cultural ideas and practices mainly spread through the empire by these.
These religious groups were tolerated by rulers of the Arab empire, even if they had to pain certain fees and taxes in order to practice their religions.
Who were the Christians and the Jews?
This group believes that ONLY descendants of Muhammad are fit to be caliph.
Who are the Shias?
This is a characteristic commonly found in Islamic art and architecture.
What are arches and dome?
This was result of Arabic mathematics spreading across the world.
What is the number 0?
This governing body was connected to the Delhi sultanate.
Who were the Muslim Turks?
These factors helped the economies of the Muslim empires.
What is their geographic location (center of land and sea trade) and Muslim merchants traveling across the lands spreading the word of Islam?
This group makes the majority of Muslims (by population).
Who are the Sunnis?
This person received a revelation from God while in a cave and began to proclaim the message of Islam, making them the last prophet on basis of the Quran.
Who was Muhammad?
This follower of Buddhism is credited with the spread of Buddhism in China.
Who is Xuanzang?
This is the reason why the city of Baghdad was so economically important.
What is being linked to China and other lands by camel caravan routes?
This person is given the most credit for the spread of Islam through preaching.
Who is Muhammad?
This is the dividing factor between Sunnis and Shias.
What is Sunnis believing any skilled leader who was devout Muslim could be caliph, while Shias believed that only those related to Muhammad could be caliph?
The Sunnis were given their name because they followed this.
What is the Sunnah?
Opposition to the caste system was brought in by the rise of this.
What is Sikhism?
This religion was based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?