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Origins of Islam
Muhammad
The Five Pillars
Inventions
Other
100
The belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
100
A person who speaks or interprets the words of God.
What is a prophet?
100
The third Pillar of Islam in which Muslims give 2.5% of their savings to charity.
What is Zakat?
100
The new form of mathematics invented by a Muslim scholar.
What is Algebra?
100
A popular game of strategy played throughout the Muslim world.
What is Chess?
200
The most holy book in Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
200
The name of the city where Muhammad was born.
What is Makkah (Mecca)?
200
The first Pillar of Islam in which Muslims declare their faith in only one God.
What is Shahadah?
200
Medical sites designed to care for the sick, which were first established by Muslims.
What are hospitals?
200
The collection or body of Islamic law.
What is Shari'ah?
300
The image Muhammad saw when he was meditating in a cave above Makkah (Mecca).
Who is the angel Gabriel?
300
The site that Muhammad changed from a polytheistic house of worship into a site to honor Allah.
What is the Ka'bah?
300
The fifth Pillar of Islam in which Muslims make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
What is Hajj?
300
The area of study that Muslim scholars improved upon through their use of the compass and the astrolabe.
What is geography and navigation?
300
The internal and external struggle to please God that Muslims experience.
What is Jihad?
400
The geographic characteristic that made Makkah (Mecca) a wealthy city.
What is its location on major trade routes?
400
The story of Muhammad visiting Jerusalem on the back of a winged horse.
What is The Night Journey?
400
The second Pillar of Islam in which Muslims are called to prayer 5 time a day.
What is Salat?
400
The area of study which helped Muslims locate the direction of Mecca, tell the exact time for prayer, and know the length of the month of Ramadan.
What is astronomy?
400
The book that is the example that Muhammad set for Muslims during his lifetime.
What is the Sunnah?
500
The group of men that came after Muhammad's death, known as the "rightly guided" Muslim rulers.
Who were the Four Caliphs?
500
Muhammad's job before he became the prophet of Islam.
What is a trader?
500
The fourth Pillar of Islam in which Muslims fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
What is Siyam?
500
The magnificent city that took 100,000 architects and 4 years to build.
What is Baghdad?
500
The ninth and most holy month of the Islamic calendar.
What is Ramadan?