A New Faith
This provides Muslims with guidelines on how to live and stresses the need to treat others fairly.
What is the Quran?
Desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis in search of water.
Who are Bedouins?
Seljuk leader
What is sultan?
A Muslim leader.
What is a caliph?
A Muslim house of worship
What is a mosque?
They formed tribes to help them survive.
How did the harsh desert climate affect the early Arabs who lived there?
Caliphs who governed the Arab Empire from Damascus.
Who are Umayyads?
When he died in A.D. 622, he left no instructions on who should be the next leader of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Eventually this term meant a speaker of Arabic, not a resident of Arabia.
What is Arab?
An Islamic marketplace.
What is a bazaar?
This religion teaches that Christians and Jews are people who follow sacred writings.
What is Islam?
The name given to the followers of Islam?
What is Muslim?
These missionaries, or traveling preachers, spread the teachings of Islam.
Who are the Sufis?
In Muslim Spain, a Jewish community in this city lived in peace and prospered.
What is Cordoba?
The most widely spoken language of the Muslim world.
What is Arabic?
Muslim tradition says that Muhammad began preaching after hearing this.
What is a voice?
Muslims believed that a large stone inside of this structure came from heaven.
What is the Kaaba?
The Sunnis believed that these people should rule the Muslim world after the death of Muhammad.
Who are the Umayyad caliphs?
The Shia or Shiites thought that only these people should rule the Muslim world after the death of Muhammad.
Who are the descendants of Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law?
Most of this group of people lived in villages and farmed the land.
Who are Muslims?
The geography of the Arabian peninsula
What are dry plains and deserts?
The most important Muslim town and became a crossroads of trade.
What is Makkah or Mecca?
Muslims taught respect for people of these religions as "People of the Book."
Who are Christians and Jews?
Over time, conquered people learned this language, while the customs of the conquered people influenced the Arab Muslims.
What is the Arabic language?
This group of people were well respected in Muslim culture because they created wealth and were skilled in business.
Who were merchants?