What is an alternate view of the office of caliph?
100
This is the term for the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims must take.
What is the Hajj.
100
He is the final prophet of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
100
This is Arabic for "God".
What is Allah?
200
Arabic word meaning "striving in the way of God"
What is Jihad?
200
The Sunni believe this is how their leaders should be appointed.
What is election or someone who follows Muhammad's example?
200
This is the sacred month where Muslims fast from dawn to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
200
Upon meditating in the cave, Muhammad heard the voice of this Angel?
Who is Gabriel?
200
This is the city that all Muslims face towards when they pray.
What is Mecca?
300
The most important cultural feature that Muslims share with the people they conquered.
What is the Arabic language?
300
The percentage that the world's Muslims are Sunni.
What is 80 or 90%?
300
This refers to the mandatory charity practiced by Muslims.
What is Alms?
300
This is a compilation of the prophecies and revelations of Allah through Muhammad.
What is the Qu'ran?
300
The term "Islam" means this.
What is Submission to Allah?
400
This is the most important difference between Muhammad's teachings and the beliefs of other Arabs.
What is that there is one God (Allah)?
400
The Shiite believe that this is how their leader should be chosen.
What is by bloodline?
400
"There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah" is a simple statement that testifies to this.
What is faith?
400
This is the city Muhammad died in.
What is Medina?
400
What Christians, Jews, and Muslims all believe.
What is there is only one God (Allah)?
500
After Muhammad's death, the Muslim empire expanded through these three ways.
What is trade, war, acceptance from persecuted peoples, common language of Arabic, treatment of conquered peoples?
500
The cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad who the Shiite believe should have been Muhammad's successor.
Who is Ali?
500
Leaders of prayer in a mosque.
Who are the Imams?
500
This is the location of where Muhammad ascended into Heaven
Where is Jerusalem. (Dome of the Rock)
500
Four basic beliefs of Islam.
What are...
...stand before Allah on final judgment day
...heaven and Hell
...forbidden to eat pork or drink intoxicating beverages
...worship on Fridays
...muhammad is regarded as “the final” prophet; he is NOT worshiped.
...there is one God (monotheistic)
...God requires of humans moral behavior (action) and pious devotion
...the Qur’an (Koran) is the divine revelation of God
...a surah is a chapter
...recitation is key: Arabic
...the final version was determined nearly 20 years after Muhammad’s death