A | B |
A wet fertile area in the desert | Oasis |
People who have no permanent home but travel from place to place | Nomads |
A group of traders that travel together | Caravan |
The wife of Mohammad | Khadijah |
The city of Mohammad's birth and where he began to preach | Mecca |
The Angel that brought messages to Mohammad that became the Quran | Gabriel |
The Holy book of Islam | Qur'an |
The name Islam gives to God | Allah |
Term that means to submit. It refers to the need of people to submit to the will of God | Islam |
The followers of Islam | Muslims |
Peoples reaction at first to the teachings of Mohammad | They were angry at him |
the important shrine of Islam located in Mecca | Kaaba |
"the prophets city" where Mohammad went after being thrown out of Mecca | Medina |
Why did rich people not like Mohammad's teachings? | because he taught to give money to the poor |
The departure of Mohammad from Mecca to Medina | Hegira |
A building for Muslim Prayer | Mosque |
Mohammed was considered | the last and greatest prophet |
The central teaching of Islam | "there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet" |
Islam teaches that the world has.... | a definite beginning and end |
"to make an effort or to struggle or " | Jihad |
A book of Islam's bible that describes how Mohammad lived his life. It is a model for the duties and way of life expected of Muslims. | Sunnah |
The five acts of worship required of all Muslims. | Five Pillars of Islam |
The First Pillar of Islam | A statement of faith that "there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet" |
The second Pillar of Islam | Pray five times a day facing Mecca |
Third Pillar of Islam | A yearly donation to charity |
The fourth Pillar of Islam | Going without food or drink during the Month of Ramadan |
The nineth month of the Islamic Clander during which they can not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset. | Ramadan |
The fifth Pillar of Islam | Jajj - A pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime |
Islamic Law that sets rewards for good behavior and punishment for bad behavior. | Shariah |
The leader of Islam after the death of Mohammad | Abu Bakr |
Title Muslims use for the highest leaders of Islam means "successor" | Caliph |
Muslim Turkish Warriors | Ottomans |
Slave soldiers of the Ottoman army | Janissaries |
Conflict developed among Muslims over what issue | who would be Caliph |
Muslims who thought that only Mohammad's descendants could become Caliphs. | Shia |
Muslims who thought that the Caliph did not need to be related to Muhammad. | Sunni |
Muslim explorer that travled to Africa, India, China and Spain in the 1320's | Ibn Battutah |
Muslims help to develop in math | our numeral system and the concept of zero |
One math subject invented by Muslim mathematicians is | Algebra |
ltjhe word Algebra is a Arabic term the that means | From broken parts |
A narrow tower from where Muslims are called to prayer | Minaret |
Decorative writing invented by Muslims | Calligraphy |