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Islam Drill
This term means “submission to the will of
God.”
Islam
What is the symbol for Islam?
The people who believe in Islam are called
Muslims
Who is the founder of Islam?
Muhammad
What year was Muhammad born in?
570 C.E
What city was Muhammad from?
Mecca
Much of the trade (particularly that of idols)
took place around a cubed stone temple called the
Ka’aba
What was the name of the angel that spoke with
Muhammad in the cave near Mecca?
Gabriel
What is the name that Muslims use when referring
to God?
Allah
The angel in the cave told Muhammad that the cubed stone temple (Kaaba) was
built by
Abraham and Ishmael
Why did the Meccans initially resist Muhammad’s
teachings?
Muhammad said the idols should be destroyed, and this made the people feared Mecca would lose its position as a pilgrimage center
What city invited Muhammad to come and live with them when they were being persecuted?
Medina
8 years after fleeing this city, Muhammad had
returned as a conqueror.
Mecca
Before he died, Muhammad had taken over all of this land -
Arabia
When Muhammad died, his companion, named Abu
Bakr, took over and became the new leader of the
Muslims. What is the title for this?
Caliph
What was a Caliph?
An Islamic Religious and Political Leader
There are two major sects of Islam, Sunni and Shia.
Which one of them felt that the line of caliphs should
have been through Muhammad’s bloodline
beginning with his son in law Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Shia
This dynasty took over the Islamic empire after the first
four caliphs
Umayyad Dynasty
The Umayyad's moved the capital of the Muslim Empire from Mecca to this location
Damascus
What Empire overthrew the Umayyad Empire?
The Abbasid Empire
When the Abassid Dynasty took control of the Muslim Empire, they moved the capital to this location.
Baghdad
When the Abassid Dynasty took control of the Muslim Empire, the Umayyad Dynasty was forced
to retreat to this land in order to survive.
Spain
Islamic house of worship
Mosque
The holy book of Islam that contains the revelations that
Muhammad received from the angel Gabriel
Qur’an (or Koran)
Who wrote the Koran?
Muhammad’s Followers
The system of law that regulates the family life,
moral conduct, and business and community life
of Muslims.
Sharia
The greatest contribution of Islamic
culture to the West was
Scholarship
The Muslims used Hindu numbers to create a new type of math. What was it
called?
Algebra
Which city is important to Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam?
Jerusalem
What geographic feature was a barrier between West African kingdoms andthe Muslim Empire?
The Sahara Desert
What was the language and writing of the Muslims in Arabia
called?
Arabic
Muhammad also said that all Muslims must perform
five duties. What are these 5 duties called.
The 5 Pillars of
The Hejira marks Mohammed’s flight from
Mecca to
Medina
When Muslims pray, they face whatever direction this city is in
Mecca
At its height, the Islamic empire expanded from
the Indus River Valley to the Atlantic Ocean
In Baghdad, the Muslims preserved the works of
Greece and Rome
In 1453, The Ottoman leader Mehmed II captured Constantinople. He changed the name of it to ________, and made the city the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1453 AD
Istanbul