Muhammed & Rashidun
The name of God in the Islamic faith is
Who is Allah?
The Umayyad capital city was in
What is Damascus?
The name of the Abbasid capital city
What is Baghdad?
While the Greeks only advocated for careful observation of nature in their Scientific Method, the Islamic scholars also added this practice to improve it.
Who added repeatable experiments to the Scientific Method?
The most sacred temple of Islam to which all Arabs must face while praying is
What is the Kaaba?
Muhammed fled from Mecca into what city?
What is Medina?
Under the Umayyads this group of people had the most privileges and full citizenship in the empire
Who were the Arab Muslims?
These two religions not mentioned in the Quran were granted tolerance by the Abbasids
What were Zoroastrians and Buddhists?
This building was the most important place of learning in the Abbasid era and its construction and destruction mark the beginning and end of the Golden Age of Islam
What is the House of Wisdom?
This is the majority branch of Islam that has historically dominated in politics and which named most of the Caliphs
Who are the Sunni?
Ali was considered by many as the only acceptable leader of Islam after the death of Muhammed because
Who was the son-in-law and theoretically also the same blood as the Prophet?
Under the Umayyads this group of people paid the most taxes and had fewer rights.
Who were the non-Arab non-Muslims?
This tribe from Central Asia migrated and came to dominate late Abbasid politics and military
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
These institutions subsidized by the state served as a combination of mosques, libraries, laboratories, schools, and boarding houses
What were the madrasas?
The Dhimmi people are
What were the other faiths (Christianity and Judaism) mentioned in the Quran called?
The first caliph after Muhammed was
Who was Abu Bakr?
Name one of the two defeats that signaled the decline of the Umayyad regime
Why were the Battle of Tours and the Berber Revolt important?
The Abbasids defeated the Tang Chinese at what famous battle
What is the Battle of Talas?
Al-Khwarizmi, the famous Islamic mathematician and scientist had his name become the basis for what important mathematical term in Europe
What was the origin of the term algorithm?
The name for the Islamic religious community is the
What is the Ummah?
This country received many of Muhammed's followers as refugees. Nowadays it is called Ethiopia.
What is Abyssinia?
The name of the parallel Caliphate created by the surviving Umayyads in Spain was
What was Al-Andalus
This Persian Dynasty came to dominate over the caliphs and even established a semi-independent state of their own
Who were the Buyyids?
The Philosopher Ibn Sina is known in the West as
Who is Avicenna?
The Shiites rejected the concept of a Caliph and a caliphate and instead wanted to be led by...
What is an Imam?