Ch. 3 Islamic Civilization

Why was the Kaaba important to early Muslims?

What was the name of the group that believed Umayyad caliphs should rule?

What is the group that believed only Muhammad's son-in-law should rule after his death?

What is the term for desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis in search of water?

What is the name given to the followers of Islam?

Muslim tradition says that Muhammad began preaching...

Islam teaches that Christians and Jews...

Who were the caliphs that governed the Arab Empire from Damascus?

In Muslim Spain, the Jewish community in Cordoba...

Merchants were well respected in Muslim culture because they...

The Sufis were missionaries, or traveling preachers, who spread the teachings of Islam.

The geography of the Arabian peninsula could best be described a high plateaus and grassy plains.

Arabic numbers that were passed on to Europeans by Persian and Arab scholars were actually borrowed from which culture?

How did the harsh desert climate affect the early Arabs who lived there?

Even though farming was important, most Muslims lived in cities.

Eventually the term Arab came to mean only a resident of the Arabian Peninsula, not just a speaker of Arabic.

The Quran provides Muslims with guidelines on how to live and stresses the need to treat others fairly.