Islam chapter 1

Question 1

sheik

Answer 1

an arab leader in particular the chief or head of an arab tribe family or village

Question 2

quran

Answer 2

the sacred text of islam considered by muslims to contain the revelations of god to Muhammad

Question 3

islam

Answer 3

the religion of the muslims a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the prophet of allah

Question 4

hijab

Answer 4

a head covering worn in public by some muslim women

Question 5

haj

Answer 5

the pilgrimage to mecca which every adult muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the pillars of islam

Question 6

bedouin

Answer 6

an arab of the desert in asia or Africa nomadic arab

Question 7

jihad

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

first caliph of mecca 632-634

Question 11

mu’awiyah

Answer 11

first Umayyad caliph

Question 12

sunni

Answer 12

a muslim who adheres to the sunni branch of islam

Question 13

shite

Answer 13

a member of one of the two great religious divisions of the islam that regards ali (the son in law of Muhammad)

Question 14

caliph

Answer 14

a spiritual leader of islam claiming succession from Muhammad

Question 15

the moors

Answer 15

a tract of open peaty wasteland often overgrown with heath common in high attitudes where drainage is poor; heath

Question 16

astrolabe

Answer 16

an instrument formerly used to make astromomical measurements

Question 17

mecca

Answer 17

the birthplace of Muhammad and thus the holiest city for muslims

Question 18

medina

Answer 18

the old arab or non-European quarter of a north African town

Question 19

the five pillars

Answer 19

the five bases of the Islamic faith: shahada (confession of faith) salat (prayer) zakat (almsgiving) sawm (fasting) and hajj (the pilgrimage of mecca)

Question 20

kadijah

Answer 20

the first wife of muhammad

Question 21

hadith

Answer 21

a collections of traditions containing sayins of the prophet muhammad

Question 22

ulama

Answer 22

a body of muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology

Question 23

caliphite

Answer 23

a Islamic state

Question 24

ummayad

Answer 24

a member of a muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world

Question 25

abbasid

Answer 25

of or relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258

Question 26

baghdad

Answer 26

the capital and the largest city of iraq

Question 27

dowry

Answer 27

property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage

Question 28

harem

Answer 28

refers to the sphere of women in what is usually a polygynous household and their enclosed quarters which are forbidden to men