Origin of Islam
The city where Muhammed was born.
What is Mecca?
First caliph after Muhammed's death.
Who is Abu Bakr?
Father of Optics
Who is Alhazen?
What is Constaninople?
There are this number of Pillars of Islam.
What is five?
City that Muhammed fled to after leaving Mecca.
What is Medina?
City that the dynasty moved to.
What is Damascus?
Father of Modern Medicine
Who is Avicenna?
Secret weapon that the Byzantines had.
What is Greek fire?
List three of the pillars of Islam.
What are...
1. recitation of the creed
2. Daily prayers toward Mecca
3. giving alms
4. fasting during the month of Ramadan
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime
What is Hegira?
Name one of the causes of the early success of Islam.
What is the resources were drained from the Sassanid and Byzantine empires; people were dissatisfied with the heavy taxes; or diverse ethnic groups have little in common and are open to change?
Greek invention that the Muslims improved.
What is the astrolabe?
Ruler of the Franks who defeated the Muslims.
Who is Charles Martel?
The Qur'an denies this doctrine about the personhood of God.
What is the Trinity?
Name of the god of Islam.
What is Allah?
This is the term for those who don't believe Islam.
What are infidels?
Best-remembered book of folktales.
What is The Book of One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights?
Battle at which the Muslims were defeated.
What is the Battle of Tours?
Muslims believe that this person was a good prophet, but not God.
Title that Muhammed's successors took.
What is caliph?
The wars the Christians fought against the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
The Chinese taught the Muslims how to make this.
What is paper or gunpowder?
Religion that spread from the Byzantine Empire to the north.
What is Greek Orthodox Christianity?
What is salvation?