Ch 3 . The Muslim religion

Question 1

Sheik

Answer 1

The patriarch of a tribe or family

Question 2

Quran

Answer 2

Koran

Question 3

Islam

Answer 3

The religious faith of Muslims

Question 4

Hijab

Answer 4

A traditional scarf worn by Muslim women to cover their hair and neck

Question 5

Haj

Answer 5

The pilgrimage to Mecca which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her life time

Question 6

Bedouin

Answer 6

An Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa nomadic Arab

Question 7

Tihad

Answer 7

A holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims

Question 8

Mosque

Answer 8

A Muslim temple or place of public worship

Question 9

Muhammad

Answer 9

Founder of Islam

Question 10

Abu bakr

Answer 10

Muhammad’s father-in-law and successor

Question 11

Sunni

Answer 11

A member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law

Question 12

Shiite

Answer 12

A member of one of the two great religious of Islam that regards, Ali, the son in law of Muhammad as the legitimate successor of Muhammad and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him

Question 13

Caliph

Answer 13

A spiritual Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad

Question 14

The moors

Answer 14

A member of a north western African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula but were finally but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century

Question 15

Mu’āwiyah

Answer 15

First caliph of the omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate