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Muhammed's birth place
What is Mecca?
100
Peninsula that is surrounded by the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean.
What is Arabia?
100
The 3rd great monotheistic religion.
What is Islam?
100
The creedal statement expressing there being one God and Mohammed is his prophet.
What is the Shahada?
100
Islam traces its roots back to this man of the Bible and his illegitimate son.
Who is Abraham and Ishmael?
200
After retiring to a cave in the wilderness, Muhammed had a vision from this archangel.
Who is Gabriel?
200
The climate of most of Arabia.
What is desert?
200
Has a special status to Muslims because they believe that it is 'God's Word' perfect and eternal.
What is the Koran?
200
Pilgrimage to Mecca
What is the Hajj?
200
A beautiful mosque built to honor Muhammed's 'Night Journey'
What is Dome of the Rock?
300
Mohammed's vision marked the beginning of this religion.
What is Islam?
300
Arabs who inhabited this area often worshipped this.
What are objects of nature?
300
Muslims recognize him as a great prophet, not the Son of God.
Who is Jesus?
300
The holy month.
What is Ramadan?
300
The question of who the legitimate heir to Muhammed led to this divide amongst the Muslim people.
What is Sunni vs. Shiite?
400
Mohammed's greatest victory
What is in Medina against the Meccans?
400
During the rise of Islam, the tribes that inhabited the area were in a constant state of this.
What is warfare?
400
A large black stone in Mecca; a focal point of prayers in the individual Muslim's life.
What is the Kabba?
400
Giving to the poor; social justice
What is Alms?
400
Catholicism and Islamic beliefs that overlap.
What are social justice teachings, monotheism, and resurrection of the body?
500
Years of Muhammed's life
What is 570-632?
500
At the time of Muhammed, Arabia was inhabited by this nomadic tribe.
What is Bedouin?
500
The Koran teaches that these two groups are "People of the Book" and share in Islam's monotheistic tradition.
What are Christians and Jews?
500
One of the five pillars on Islam
What is prayer?
500
Muslims do not recognize these Christian beliefs.
What are the Incarnation, redemption and atonement of the cross, the resurrection, or the Trinity?