Vocabulary (Word Wall)
What does polytheism mean?
What does monotheism mean?
The belief or worship of only one god?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all originated in this region of the world.
What is the Middle East (and Arabian Peninsula)?
Who was the prophet Muhammad?
This founder of Islam is also a key prophet for the religion. He had the great revelation around the age of 40 when meditating in a cave.
What does exile mean?
When people are forced to leave their country
This is the predominant (and holy) language of Islam.
What is Arabic?
Christians view Jesus as God, the Son of God. Muslims and Jews view this man as a prophet, not the Son of God.
Who is Jesus?
What does convert mean?
When someone accepts a new belief or becomes a follower of a religion
Although fasting is part of all three religions, Ramadan is a thirty day annual fast as part of this religion.
Islam
This monotheistic religion is considered to have originated about 1400 years ago.
What is Islam?
Like Judaism's synagogues and Christianity's churches, this is the Islam house of worship.
Mosque
What does caliph mean?
A caliph is a spiritual and political leader in Islam, considered to be a successor to the Prophet Muhammad in guiding the Muslim community.
Passover is the Jewish holiday remembering...
The Israelites leaving slavery in Egypt (the Exodus)
Abraham is an important figure in this monotheistic religion.
All three!
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?
Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting and Pilgrimage or hajj. What is the name of these principles?
What does imam mean?
A muslim leader, particularly one who leads prayer and teaching at a mosque
What are some contributions from the Islamic period that we studied in our textbooks?
Astrolabe, bar soap, algebra etc.
The apostle Paul is associated with spreading which religion through his missionary journeys?
Christianity