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Belief
Prayer
Charity
Fasting
Pilgrimage
100
Allah means this in English.
What is God.
100
The prophet of the Islam religion.
Who is Muhammad.
100
People who follow Islam are called this.
What is Muslim.
100
The laws and codes of the Islamic religion are called this.
What is shariah.
100
Jihad means what in English?
"struggle in the way of God"
200
How did Muhammad become a prophet?
What is he was visited by the angel Gabriel.
200
Muhammad left this city in 622 AD and headed for this city.
What are Mecca and Medinah?
200
Before he was the prophet of Islam, Muhammad was this.
What is a merchant.
200
These are the two main factions or groups in the Islamic religion.
What are Sunni and Shiites (Shia)
200
Arabic term for the pilgrimage a Muslim must make once in their life.
What is a hajj.
300
Caliphs who are descendants of Umayyads are this.
What is the Sunni.
300
This is the language the Koran is written in.
What is Arabic?
300
Muslims fast from sun up to sun down during this month.
What is Ramadan.
300
Which group of Muslims makes up the majority of Muslims in the world?
Who are the Sunnis
300
Two empires/civilizations that Muslims traded with.
Who are China, Byzantine Empire, India and Southeast Asia
400
The religion of Islam split because of this.
What is a disagreement over who should lead the Muslims after the death of Muhammad.
400
A Muslim place of worship.
What is a mosque
400
Muslims helped preserve philosophy and culture from these groups.
Who are the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Gupta.
400
Muslims pray toward this.
What is the Kabaa in Mecca.
400
The Muslim Empire stretched from Spain in Europe to China in Asia and was bigger than what other empire.
What is bigger than the Roman Empire.
500
What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
What are belief in one god, pray 5 times a day, give part of one's wealth to the poor, refrain from food and drink from dawn to sunset druing the month of Ramadan, and make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime
500
Muslims were tolerant of other religions but required non-Muslims to pay this.
What is a special tax? (10%)
500
These two reasons are why Islam spread rapidly after Muhammad's death.
1. clear and simple message 2. the Byzantine Empire and Persian Empire were weak 3. Trade with other empires 4. Expansion of Islamic Empire
500
This mosque is located in Jerusalem, and is the site where Muhammad ascended into heaven.
What is the Dome of the Rock
500
The Islamic religion originated on the Arabian peninsula. Name two characteristics of these people (Arabs).
What are: 1. Nomadic Herders 2. Polytheistic 3. Tribal 4. Traced ancestry back to Abraham and Ishmael