The great religious monument of both pre-Muslim and Muslim Arabia is known as
What is the Kaaba
100
The Islamic book of teaching is known as
What is the Quran
100
Protected subjects who followed other "religions of the book" besides Islam
What are dhimmis
100
This mathematician spread the use of Arabic numerals in the Islamic World and wrote the first book on algebra
Who is al-Khwarazim
200
The founding prophet of Islam, who had a series of revelations beginning in 610 C.E
Who is Muhammad
200
In 751, Arab armies defeated the forces of China at the Battle of
What is Talas River
200
This important city held the site of the Kaaba, the most prominent religious monument in Arabia
What is the city of Mecca
200
The leaders of the Shia sect of Islam were
What are imams
200
He discovered sulfuric acid and wrote a vast encyclopedia of medicine drawing on Greek, Syrian, Indian, and Persian work on his own clinical observation
Who is al-Razi
300
This is the community of all Muslim believers and the basis for Islamic Society
What is Umma
300
Muhammad's successor as political leader of the Islamnic World is known as
What is the Caliph
300
The five basic acts in Islam, considered mandatory by believers and are the foundation for Muslim life are called
What are the five pillars of faith
300
Muslim mystics who sought a direct and personal experience of God
What are Sufis
300
He translated and commented widely on Aristotle, he was a rationalist philosopher, and made major contributions in law, mathematics, and medicine
Who is Ibn Rushd
400
The body of Islamic law, concerned with both religious and social life is known as
What is the Sharia
400
This religion of combined elements of Hinduism and Islam that developed in sixteenth-century India
What is Sikhism
400
Region in which Islam spread especially among merchants, thanks to their inclusion in a major Islamic trading network, rather than through conquest and Islamic Rule
What is West Africa
400
The Islamic name for Spain
What is al-Andalus
400
This mathematician made critic of Euclid's geometry and measured the solar year with great accuracy
Who is Omar Khayyam
500
The West African city that had more than 150 Quranic schools and thousands of more advanced scholars by the sixteenth-century
What is Timbuktu
500
The Islamic intellectuals who argued that truth could be more certainly reached by reason rather than revelation were known as
What are Mutazalites
500
The two Islamic lands that were most open in its attitude toward women, allowing them to appear unveiled in public and mingle freely with men whom they were not related to
What are the lands of Anatolia and West Africa
500
The civilizations that were encompassed by the New Arab State
What are the civilizations of Egypt, Roman/Byzantine, persia, Mesopotamia, and India
500
He is known as the greatest Arab historian and he identified trends and structures in world history over long periods of time