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What is the vocabulary term that describes a group of traveling merchants & animals?
What is a caravan?
100
What is the vocabulary term for the group of Islamic muslims who spent their time praying and teaching Islam?
What is the Sufi?
100
This person is the prophet who is credited with creating the religion of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
100
What is the place called where the prophet Muhammad was born?
Where is Mecca (Makkah)?
100
What is the 4th Pillar of Islam called? Name one characteristic of this Pillar.
What is the Sawm?
200
What is the vocabulary term for the holy book of Islam?
What is the Quran?
200
What is the tower from which a crier announces the times for muslim beleivers to pray called? It is located in a mosque.
What is a minaret?
200
This person was a muslim & Persian poet. He wrote the Rubaiyat around 1100. This poem is credited with being one of the finest poems ever written.
Who is Omar Khayyam?
200
This is the muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
200
This is the Pillar of Islam that is referred to as the "testimony".
What is the "Shahada"?
300
This vocabulary term describes a successor to the "Messenger of God".
What is a caliph?
300
In the early Aarab tribes, this person was called the head of the tribe.
What is a sheikh?
300
This person ruled as a sultan. He is one of the most famous sultans in history who ruled in the 1500s. He built many schools and mosques. He was called the "magnificent". After his rule, the Ottoman empire weakened and finally collasped at the end of WWI.
Who is Suleiman I?
300
This place is in the dessert. It is a green area fed by underground water. Water is only found here in the dessert.
What is an oasis?
300
Muslim men are allowed to have this number of wives at one time.
What are 4 wives?
400
This group of muslims beleived that Ali, who is Muhammad's son-in-law should succeed him and that all future caliphs should be Ali's descendants. This group of muslims felt that the Umayyad caliphs had no right to rule.
What are the Shiite muslims?
400
This vocabulary term describes the announcer who calls devout muslim believers to pray 5 times a day.
What is a crier?
400
This person is a ruler. The title means "holder of power".
What is a sultan?
400
This is the place where devout Muslims pledge to make a pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime.
Where is Mecca (Makkah)?
400
What does "zakat" mean?
What is "purification" and "growth"?
500
This group of Muslims outnumbered Shiite muslims. They accepted the Umayyad dynasty as the rightful caliphs even though they didn't always agree with their policies. What was this group of muslims called?
What are the Sunni muslims?
500
These people created another Muslim Empire in India during the 1500s. They came from the mountains north of India. Moguls used guns, cannons, elephants and horses to conquer territory.
What are moguls?
500
These Arabs were desert herders. They lived in tents and dried fruits and nuts. They rarely ate meat. What is this group of people called?
What are Bedouins?
500
This is the place where the prophet Muhammad reportedly received the revelation from the angel Gabriel that he should begin teaching and spreading the word of Islam.
Where is the Cave of Hira?
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What is the name of the "end of Ramadan"?
What is Eid Mabarack?