Call to Prayer
This person calls Muslims to prayer
Who is the muezzin?
The building where Muslims worship and pray.
What is a mosque?
The main prophet of Islam who taught people to follow the word of God.
Answer: Who is Muhammad?
Muslims believe in how many gods?
What is one God?
Islamic scholars were ahead of Europe in this subject and helped advance medical knowledge.
What is medicine?
The tall tower near a mosque from which calls to prayer may be made.
What is a minaret?
The city Muhammad and his followers moved to during the Hegira.
What is Medina?
The angel who brought messages from God to Muhammad.
Who is Gabriel?
What do Muslims call their holy book? (Two acceptable names.)
Answer: What is the Koran or Quran?
What did Islamic scholars translate so ideas could be shared and studied?
What are important books from other languages?
The holy book that Muslims follow and read.
What is the Koran (Quran)?
The chief city of Arabia that is the holiest city in Islam; Muslims face toward it when they pray.
What is Mecca?
A close relative and follower of Muhammad who became an important figure in early Islam.
Who is Ali?
Name two of the Five Pillars of Islam.
What are (any two) prayer, faith declaration, charity/helping the poor, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca?
Name one type of place where learning was preserved and shared in the Islamic world
What is a madrasa, or library
The statement that Muslims say to show they believe in one God and Muhammad as God’s prophet (the first of the Five Pillars).
What is the faith declaration?
A school where students often study religion and other subjects in the Islamic world.
What is a madrasa?
The Christian leader who urged Christians to try to free the Holy Land, starting the Crusades.
Who is Pope Urban II?
Why is a crusade NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam?
A crusade is a Christian military attempt to take the Holy Land; it is not an Islamic religious duty?
What was the Hegira and why was it important?
What is Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina that allowed the Muslim community to grow and become stronger?
A journey Muslims try to make to the holy city of Mecca (also one of the Five Pillars).
What is the pilgrimage (Hajj)?
he year the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople.
What is 1453?
A Muslim leader who fought against the Crusaders and became famous for his leadership.
Who is Saladin?
During which month do Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset as part of a Pillar of Islam?
What is Ramadan?
Which empire captured Constantinople in 1453, an important event that helped shape later history?
What are the Ottoman Turks?