Muhammed
The city Muhammad was born in.
What is Mecca?
The name of the Persian empire that opposed Muslim expansion in the beginning.
What is the Sassanid Empire?
The numeral system Arabic numbers replaced.
What are Roman numerals?
What is jihad?
The angel who Muhammad claimed gave him visions from god.
Who is the angel Gabriel?
The number of times Muslims must pray every day.
The name of the Christian empire that opposed Muslim expansion from the beginning all the way until the 1400's.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The name of the Islamic dynasty that ruled during a renaissance of learning and cultural achievement and had its capital in Baghdad.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The name of the Islamic holy book.
What is the Quran?
The reason Muhammad was exiled from Mecca.
What is preaching the worship of only one god?
What Muslims must give to the poor.
What are alms (or money?)
The reason Sunni and Shia Muslims split.
What is the decision on who to make the leader of all Muslims.
The name of the most famous literature from the Abbasid Caliphate.
What is Arabian Nights or The Book of One Thousand and One Nights?
What is sharia?
The name of the city Muhammad was forced to flee to.
What is Medina?
What must Muslims not do during the month of Ramadan?
Eat or drink from sunrise to sunset.
The title given to the leader of all Muslims
What is caliph?
The texts Islamic scholars preserved from an earlier civilization.
What are the works of the Greek philosophers?
The name of collections of sayings and stories from the life of Muhammad for Muslims to imitate that is not at the level of the Quran.
What is the hadith?
The year of Muhammad's death.
Something every able-bodies Muslim must do at least once during their life.
What is making a hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca?
The name of the battle at which Muslim expansion into France was stopped in the 700's.
What is the Battle of Tours?
The name of the European country that was ruled by Muslim rulers known as the Moors for hundreds of years.
What is Spain?
The type of person Muslims believe Jesus Christ was.
What is a prophet (not the Son of God)?