Muhammad's Life
This is the city where Muhammad was born in 570 CE.
What is Mecca?
Muslims must pray this many times each day.
What is five?
This is the holiest city in Islam.
What is Mecca?
Before Islam, most Arabs were this, meaning they worshipped many gods.
What are polytheists?
These numbers from 0-9 that we use today were spread by Muslim scholar.
What are Arabic numerals?
In 622 CE, Muhammad made this famous journey from Mecca to Medina
What is the Hijra?
This is the holy month when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
This body of water forms the western border of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea?
This is what we call a Muslim political and religious leader after Muhammad.
What is a Caliph?
Muslims translated and preserved texts from these two ancient civilizations.
What are Greek and Roman?
Muhammad received his first revelation from this angel in 610 CE.
Who is Gabriel (Jibril)?
This Arabic word means the pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Hajj?
This city is where Muhammad fled to and is the second holiest city in Islam.
What is Medina?
True or False: The Kaaba contained many idols before Muhammad cleansed it.
What is true?
This navigation tool was perfected by Muslim scientists for astronomy.
What is the astrolabe?
Muhammad worked in this profession before becoming a prophet.
What is a merchant?
"There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger" is this pillar.
What is Shahada (Declaration of Faith)?
This large desert covers most of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Arabian Desert?
By 661 CE, the Islamic Empire had NOT yet reached these two European regions.
What are Spain and France?
This branch of mathematics was developed by the Muslim scholar Al-Khwarizmi.
What is algebra?
The year 622 CE marks the beginning of this important Muslim calendar.
What is the Islamic calendar (or Hijri calendar)?
Name all Five Pillars of Islam in any order.
What are Shahada (Declaration of Faith), Salat (Prayer), Zakat (Charity), Sawm (Fasting), and Hajj (Pilgrimage)?
This cube-shaped building in Mecca is the most sacred site in Islam.
What is the Kaaba?
These nomadic Arab people lived in tribes in the desert before Islam.
Who are the Bedouins?
This was a famous library and center of learning in Baghdad.
What is the House of Wisdom?