Geography
This animal sometimes called "the ship of the desert" is known both for carrying heavy loads and for spitting.
What is a camel?
Temperatures in the desert can go as high as this number.
What is 120?
This term for a group of related families is also used in the title of an online game. Hint: In the game they clash.
What is a clan?
Muhammad's parents died leaving him a this.
What is an orphan?
Muhammad was born here in 570 C.E.
What is Makkah (Mecca)?
This first pillar of Islam causes Muslims to repeat "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."
What is Profession of Faith?
A group of people with pack animals traveling together for mutual protection is called this.
What is a caravan?
In the coastal plain areas of the Arabian peninsula, the air is said to be this because rain falls regularly.
What is damp?
This shrine in Mecca is said to have been built by Abraham.
What is the Ka-ba?
Muhammad is said to have received messages from the angel Gabriel in this.
What is a cave?
After Muhammad's death Muslim territories were ruled by these rulers who claimed a religious authority to rule.
What is a Caliph?
Muslims who follow the Third Pillar of Islam give away about this much of their wealth.
What is 1/40th? (2.5 percent)
These occur where water has been trapped under the ground and seeps to the surface as a spring or waterhole.
What is an Oasis?
Because of how sporadic grassy areas in the desert can be Arabs adapted by moving from place to place also known as this.
What is nomadic?
This term is used for a person who believes in more than one god.
What is polytheist?
The city Yathrib was renamed this which means "city of the prophet."
What is Medina?
Muhammad didn't write this, but it is a collection of his writings.
What is the Qu'ron? (Koran)
Salat is the Muslim word for this which Muslims do five times each day.
What is daily prayer?
In this geographic area, moist winds from the Indian Ocean bring as much as 20 inches of rain each year.
What are the mountains?
The practice of bringing water to dry places in order to grow crops is called this.
What is irrigation?
These social groups that share a common ancestry and traditions often fought for territory, animals, or goods.
What are tribes?
According to Muslim tradition, Gabriel gave his revelations to Muhammad over this many years.
What is 22?
Muhammad asked that his followers that they should welcome strangers and even give them this. Bon appetite.
What is food? (meal, lunch, etc.)
The Qu'ran is the holy book of Islam, while this book is the example of Muhammad's life.
What is the Sunnah?
Unlike the desert region this geographic formation is where farming thrived.
What is the coastal plain?
Because of the terrain, farmers in these geographic areas farmed by creating these step-like areas.
What are terraces?
Mecca or Makkah gained its wealth not from farming but from this.
What is trade?
When Makkans first heard Muhammad's tales the rejected him and started doing this which means "refusing to do business with an organization or group."
What is boycott?
This is a holy month in Islam.
What is Ramadan?
The fifth pillar of Islam is hajj which means means "pilgrimage." Muslims make a pilgrimage here at least once in their lifetime.
What is Makkah?