Unit 4 History_Semester 1

What is a person called who submits to the will of Allah?

What scientific advancement is linked to the Muslim scholar Al-Kwarizmi?

Which group supported Abu Bakr and believed that Muslim leadership should go to whoever was most capable?

Which description of the term caliph is correct?

What is the name for the special religious duties a Muslim must observe?

What group believed the Islamic leadership should stay in Muhammad’s family?

What is the literal meaning of the word Islam in Arabic?

Which empire arose in Persia in the third century CE?

What were Muslim scholars famous for?

Islam is a monotheistic religion.

Which event marked the beginning of the Islamic era?

What is the sacred text of Islam?

What was Abu Bakr's relationship to the prophet Muhammad?

What research library, staffed by Muslim scholars, became a great center of learning in medieval times?

Who succeeded Muhammad upon his death as the spiritual and political leader of the Islamic world?

What term refers to a struggle on behalf of Islam?