Muhammad and Islam History
These are the two holiest cities of Islam.
What is Mecca and Medina?
The original language the Qu'ran is written in, and the main language of Islam.
What is Arabic?
What is the Arabian Desert?
These were the two different groups of Muslims after Muhammad's death.
What is the Sunni? What is the Shia?
This ancient civilization was based in what is now modern day Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia?
This Arabic term refers to Muhammad's flight from a certain city where he was exiled for preaching the word of Allah.
What is hijrah?
These are the Muslim houses of worship.
What are Mosques?
Double Points: Muslim traders spread Islam through this desert outside of Saudi Arabia.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These were two of the empires that the united Muslim Empires were able to conquer.
What is Persia? What is most of the Byzantines?
Double Points: Muslims are forbidden to consume these two things.
What is pork? What are intoxicating beverages?
The word "Islam" is Arabic for this.
What is "submission to Allah?"
These are the set of laws that regulate daily lives, morals, business, etc.
What is Sharia Law?
Saudi Arabia is connected to these three continents.
What is Asia, Europe, and Africa?
These were the religious and political leaders of the Islamic communities.
What is Caliph?
This term was given to followers of other Monotheistic religions by the Muslims.
What are the People of the Book?
The temple described as a "large black box," housed these certain items, and is where Muhammad began preaching upon his return to the holiest city of Islam.
What is the Ka'aba?
This is the other scripture meant to go alongside the Qu'ran which instructs how a Muslim should act and behave.
What is the Sunna?
Small parts of the desert that have water or vegetation.
What is an oasis?
Islam and this religion have a long history of violence towards one another and still have bad blood to this day.
What is Hinduism?
These were the three other major monotheistic religions other than Islam.
What is Christianity? What is Judaism? What is Zoroastrians?
This specific individual gave the message of Allah to Muhammad.
Who is Gabriel?
These are the core beliefs of Islam. What are they and what do they mean?
Double Points: Name as
What are the Five Pillars of Faith? 1.) Faith, 2.) Prayer, 3.)Alms (giving to the poor,) 4.) Fasting during the month of Ramadan, 5.) Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)
These groups of nomads were experts at travelling the desert and guided merchants and caravans to cities in the area.
Who are the Bedouins?
This term is used for the group of Islam's most important caliphs.
What are the Rightly Guided Caliphs?
This was the Sunni Islam term for religious scholars.
What is ulama?