Origins of Islam
Beliefs of Islam
Muslim Expansion
Muslim Achievements
Vocabulary
100
Describe the Arabian setting
What is a peninsula, arid environment, with settlements around the Hijaz region?
100
Language the Quran is studied in
What is Arabic?
100
Capital during the Umayyad Dynasty
What is Damascus?
100
The name given to the era of Muslim Achievements
What is the Golden Age of Islam?
100
Prophet
Who is a person chosen by God to deliver the truth?
200
Difference between nomadic and sedentary Arab people
What is nomadic people don't settle permanently, and sedentary people are farmers and merchants?
200
Where the Sunnah is recorded
What is the Hadith?
200
Capital during the Abbasid Dynasty
What is Baghdad?
200
Describe an achievement in the field of medicine
What are hospitals, surgical tools, and Ibn Sina's medical encyclopedia?
200
Quran
What is the holy book of Islam, the revelations of Muhammad?
300
Groups of people who settle in the Hijaz region
Who are Jews, Christians, and tribal groups?
300
The 5 pillars of Islam
What are faith, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage?
300
Role of women in Muslim society
What is they were subservient but still had more rights than Chinese women at the time, and had marriage, property and family rights?
300
This person popularized use of the miswak
Who is Prophet Muhammad?
300
Caliph
What is "successor" to Muhammad?
400
Muhammad's revelations as told to him by the Angel Gabriel
What is there is one all-powerful God (Allah) and how to reform corrupt human behaviors?
400
Code for "the way" to act
What is Sharia law?
400
The problem with Turks in the Abbasid army
What is they were hired and not of the same ethnicity so they were not loyal?
400
What is calligraphy?
400
"People of the book"
Who are Jews and Christians?
500
Muhammad's reaction to the revelations as told to him by the Angel Gabriel
What is he was in denial and did not come to his role as prophet immediately, and it was his wife Khadija who convinced him to tell other people?
500
The significance of Kaaba and Mecca
What is a religious structure at the center of the trading city that draws in millions of tourists each year and used to hold pagan relics?
500
Explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire
What is Mongols invaded the Abbasids and surviving leaders called sultans came to power, had strong army of janissaries, and eventually ended the Byzantine empire?
500
Describe the significance of Arabic numerals
What is they originated in India but were make popular through the writings of al-Khwarizmi and paved the way for the development of algebra?
500
Sunni vs. Shia
What is Sunnis believe in the Rightly Guided Caliphs and Shias believe the first caliph should have been Ali?