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Belief
Prayer
Charity
Fasting
Pilgrimage
100
Allah means this in Arabic.
What is God.
100
The prophet of the Islam religion.
Who is Muhammad.
100
People who follow Islam are called this.
What are Muslims.
100
The laws and codes of the Islamic religion are called this.
What is shariah.
100
Islam means what in Arabic?
What is "To Submit to 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?
What is Mecca
200
Before he was the prophet of Islam, Muhammad was this.
What is a merchant.
200
These are the two factions or groups in the Islamic religion.
What are Sunnis and Shiites
200
The theory that that people could find God's love by having a personal relationship with God
What is Sufism.
300
The greatest literary achievement for Muslims is this.
What is the Koran/Qu'ran
300
Early collection of sayings from Muhammad that would later be used in shariah, such as no pictures of Muhammad in mosques, is called this
What is Hadith.
300
Muslims fast from sun up to sun down during this month.
What is Ramadan.
300
Which group of Muslims make up the majority of Muslims in the world?
Who are the Sunnis
300
Muslims traded with these countries/empires.
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
This word mean to make an effort, or to struggle.
What is jihad?
400
Muslims helped preserve philosophy and culture from these groups.
Who are the Greeks and Romans.
400
Muslims pray toward this.
What is the Kabaa in Mecca.
400
The Muslim Empire stretched from where to where and was bigger than what other empire.
What is Spain to China and 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
The Aur'an describes the guidelines for life explicitly (literally), implicitally (you have to make an inference), or both?
What is BOTH.
500
Shariah sets ___________ for good behavior and _____________ for crimes.
What is rewards and punishments?
500
Before entering Mecca, pilgrims must put on:
What are special white garments?
500
The Islamic religion originiated on the Arabian peninsula. Give me three characteristics of these people.
What are: They were nomadic herders, They spoke arabic, they were mostly polytheistic, and they traced their ancestry through Abraham and his oldest son Ishmael