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Beginnings of Islam
Beliefs and Practices
Spread of Islam
Miscellaneous
Islamic Golden Age
100
Muslims believe that this man received a vision to preach Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
100
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
100
In the early A.D. 700s, Islam spread to this European country.
What is Spain?
100
A Muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
100

Founded in Baghdad as a center of scholarship and religion

House of Wisdom

200
This city is the birthplace of Islam.
What is Mecca (or Makkah)?
200
The two major branches of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia?
200

Islam was stopped from spreading into northern Europe at this battle

Battle of Tours

200

A Muslim leader

The Caliph

200

A form of artistic patterns that uses linear patterns

Arabesque

300
The main reason that the early followers of Islam moved to Madinah (Yathrib)?
What is that Mecca had become to dangerous, because the leaders thought that Muhammad was trying to destroy their authority?
300

This group believed any rightful leader could be the caliph

The Sunni's

300

Islamic shrine built on the temple mount in Jerusalem

Dome of the Rock

300
Two contributions that Muslim culture made to the field of Science and Mathematics.
What are astronomical discoveries, the astrolabe, chemistry, algebra?
300
This group, backed by Shia Muslims, overthrew the Umayyad Dynasty.
Who were the Abbasids?
400

This is one major difference between Islam and the religion that proceeded it in Mecca

Islam is monotheistic 

400

This group believed that only descendants of the Prophet could lead the caliphate

Shia Muslims

400
After gaining control of territories, Arabs were able to grow their empire by usually letting conquered people do this.
What is practice their own religion and customs?
400

Round city built by the Abbasid Caliphate

Baghdad

400

A handheld two-dimensional model of the sky

An astrolabe

500

He was the first caliph after the death of Muhammed

Abu Bakr

500
The five pillars of Islam:
What are belief, fasting, charity, prayer, pilgrimage?
500

Caliphate located in Egypt and north Africa that claimed to descend from Muhammed's daughter

The Fatimid Caliphate

500

Religious building covered in black cloth found in Mecca

Kabba

500

An Islamic institute of higher learning

The Madrasa