Islam

Question 1

Baghdad

Answer 1

The capital of the Abbasid Empire

Question 2

Cairo

Answer 2

The capital of the Fatimid

Question 3

The Third Class of Muslim Society

Answer 3

the “protected people”

Question 4

House of Wisdom

Answer 4

The Center of Learning

Question 5

Calligraphy

Answer 5

Is a form of handwriting

Question 6

Al-Khwarimi

Answer 6

invented Algebra (mathematics)

Question 7

Islam

Answer 7

In Arabic it means “one who has submitted”

Question 8

Architecture

Answer 8

The form of art where there is the most cultural blending in the Muslim world

Question 9

Muhammad

Answer 9

Muslims believe he was the last and greatest of the prophets.

Question 10

Bureaucracy

Answer 10

The Abbasids control their large empire through this

Question 11

Umayyads

Answer 11

replaced the last of the “Rightly guided” caliphs

Question 12

Sh’ia

Answer 12

This division of Islam believe only a relative of Muhammad is qualified to be leader.

Question 13

Muslim beliefs on education

Answer 13

Muslim leaders support places of learning because they believe in scholarship

Question 14

Mecca

Answer 14

Muslims pray five times a day facing this city

Question 15

Five Pillars of Islam

Answer 15

statement of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage

Question 16

Hijrah

Answer 16

This was important for the Muslims because it was in Medina that Muhammad was accepted as religious and political leader

Question 17

Advances in Astronomy

Answer 17

Because Muslims needed to know the precise direction of Mecca

Question 18

Sharia

Answer 18

The Muslim system of law that regulates family life, moral conduct, and the business and community lives of Muslims