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This guy was the founder of Islam. He was born in Mecca in 570 AD.
Who was Muhammed?
This is Muhammed's hometown. The holiest city in Islam.
What is Mecca?
This was the field of mathematics pioneered by Al-Khwarizmi and other scholars in the Golden Age of Islam.
What is Algebra?
THE holy book of Islam.
What is the Koran?
This word literally means "Rule by God".
What is Theocracy?
People belonging to this branch of Islam make up the majority of Muslims (85%) world-wide.
Who are Sunnis?
This is where you could go in the Islamic Empire if you were sick or injured.
What are Hospitals?
These were places in the Empire of Islam where a person could buy medicine.
What are Pharmacies?
These people are the "clergy" in Islam (like a priest or a rabbi)
Imams
The name for a follower of the Religion of Islam.
What is a Muslim?
The nomadic tribes of Arabia before the coming of Islam
Who are Bedouins?
This is the town Muhammed flees to during the Hijrah. The second holiest city in Islam.
What is Medina?
The study of animal life pioneered in the Islamic world.
What is Zoology?
This word literally means "To Submit".
What is Islam?
This is the name for God in Arabic.
What is Allah?
This guy was a great Sufi poet. He founded the "Whirling Dervishes".
Who was Rumi?
This is the Shrine (black box) in the center of Mecca.
What is the Kaaba?
Merchants traveling together over-land for ease and safety.
What are caravans?
The tower next to the mosque from where the call to pray is sung.
What is a Minaret?
This is the name for month-long holiday when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
This guy compiled the "Canon of Medicine" by translating Greek & Latin texts into Arabic.
Who was Ibn Sina?
This is the 3rd holiest city in Islam, also holy to Christians and Jews.
What is Jerusalem?
A long distance payment method pioneered by Arab caravan traders during the Golden Age.
What are Checks?
The Arabic word for Charity? (The concept that everyone should give 2.5% to the needy)
What is Zakat?
This book was compiled by Ibn Sina and was the authoritative medical for Europe through the 1600's.
What is the Canon of Medicine