Muhammad's Successors
Arabic for successor or deputy
Caliph
What ended the rule of the caliphs Uthman & Ali quickly?
Assasination
Muslims that had spread Islam from North Africa into Spain?
Berbers
The design of the city of Baghdad was in this type of shape?
Circle(s)
What is removed when a Muslim prays?
Shoes/sandals
Term refers to the first 4 caliphs of Islam
Rightly Guided
Damascus, Syria
After defeat at Tours (France) the Berbers set up the Umayyad caliphate in this European area?
Spain (al-Andalus)
If you were a Jew or Christian in the Muslim Empire, which of the 4 social classes would you occupy ?
3rd social class
If you just did Zakat, you just did what...?
gave / helped the poor
What Abu-Bakr invoked on Bedouins who refused to follow Islam?
Jihad
What Muslim group believed the caliph must be a direct ancestor of Muhammad?
Shi'a (Shiite)
To where the Abbasids moved the capital of Islam?
Baghdad
What type of Muslim was the 1st class in Muslim society?
People Islamic from birth
How long does Ramadan last?
One month
Who was given tolerance in the Islamic empire if they paid a tax?
Christians, Jews (other religions non-Muslim)
The majority of Muslims belong to this group?
Sunni's
To do business across the Muslim Empire, you needed two things... to speak___________ and use _____________ as money
Arabic / Dinar
To divorce a wife, A Muslim husband only had to say...
"I dismiss thee" (three times)
If you have gone to Mecca, you have performed the Muslim pillar of _____________.
Hajj
Why Islam was accepted by persecuted people of Byzantine & Persian Empire?
Equality & hope offered by Islam
Family that took over rule of Islam from the Umayyads in 750?
Abbasids
Cordoba, Spain
Who did the Koran say were managers of the affairs of women?
men
Say the Muslim creed all believers in Islam say:
(paraphrase...but include) Allah is God and Muhammad is his messenger