Chapter 12 The Islamic World

Question 1

What is an Oasis?

Answer 1

a wet fertile area in the desert

Question 2

What is a Caravan?

Answer 2

A group of traders that travel together

Question 3

What is a follower of Islam called?

Answer 3

Muslim

Question 4

Who was Muhammad?

Answer 4

The Prophet of Islam:
founder of Islam

Question 5

The messages Muhammad received form the basis of what religion?

Answer 5

Islam

Question 6

What is the holy book of Islam called?

Answer 6

Qur’an

Question 7

What is a pilgrimage?

Answer 7

a journey to a sacred place

Question 8

influence

Answer 8

The power to have an effect on someone or something

Question 9

mosque

Answer 9

building for Muslim Prayer

Question 10

jihad

Answer 10

to make an effort or to struggle

Question 11

Sunnah

Answer 11

the way Muhammad lived, provides a model for the duties and the way of life expected of Muslims

Question 12

Five Pillars of Islam

Answer 12

Five acts of worship required of all Muslims

Question 13

Abu Bakr

Answer 13

One of Muhammad’s first converts, to be the next leader of Islam; first Caliph

Question 14

caliph

Answer 14

A title tha tMuslims use for the highest leader of Islam

Question 15

tolerance

Answer 15

acceptance

Question 16

development

Answer 16

growth or positive change for society, process of growing or improving

Question 17

Janissaries

Answer 17

slave soldiers who converted to Islam and became fierce warriors

Question 18

Mehmed II

Answer 18

Ottoman leader who conquered Constantinople ( Istanbul today)

Question 19

Suleyman I

Answer 19

“the Magnificent”, under him Ottomans took control of the Eastern Mediterranean and into Europe

Question 20

Shia

Answer 20

Muslims who thought that only Muhammad’s descendants could become caliphs.

Question 21

Sunni

Answer 21

Muslims who do not think caliphs had to be related to Muhammad

Question 22

According to Islamic belief, how did Muhammad get the ideas that started Islam?

Answer 22

when he was 40 years old he went to meditate in a cave. God visited him through an angel and made him a prophet

Question 23

How does the Qur’an help Muslims obey God?

Answer 23

It provides guidelines of their daily life, individual behavior , morals and ethics and women’s rights.

Question 24

How did trade help spread Islam?

Answer 24

Arab merchants took Islamic beliefs to India, Africa and Southeast Asia

Question 25

How did Muslim scholars help preserve learning from the ancient world?

Answer 25

Thy preserved learning by translating it into Arabic, studying them and in some cases building on the ideas set down by the ancient writers in their own works

Question 26

Ibn Battutah

Answer 26

Musim explorer who traveled to Africa, India, China and Spain in the 1320’s

Question 27

Sufism

Answer 27

Muslim spiritual practice: believe they can find God’s love by having a personal relationship with God

Question 28

Omar Khayyam

Answer 28

famous Muslim Sufi poet

Question 29

patrons

Answer 29

sponsor

Question 30

minaret

Answer 30

a narrow tower from where Muslims are called to prayer

Question 31

calligraphy

Answer 31

Muslim artistic decorative writing