Chapter 8

A tower that was used to call Muslims to prayer was called.

How did the desert climate affect the early Muslims who lived there?

Omar Khayyam wrote

This was a group of desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis

According to Islam, Christians and Jews

Caliphs of this dynasty governed from Damascus.

Sufis were

Those who believed Ali's descendants should be the caliph were called

Those who believed the Umayyad dynasty should be the caliphs were called

A Muslim house of worship.

People who had no power in the Muslim world were.

Most Muslims lived in

This device, improved by the Muslims, was used by sailors to navigate.

Followers of Islam are called

The Persian doctor who showed how disease was spread.

What caused Muhammad to begin preaching?

Shah Jahan built this to honor his wife.

Jews in Spain, during Muslim occupation

Muslim marketplaces were called this.

The Muslim social pyramid was based on this.

Arabic numerals were borrowed from

Muslim rulers helped Islam by making Arabic the language and giving this to merchants.

Merchants earned respect in Islam because they