Ch 5- Islamic Civilization

In Muslim Spain, the Jewish community in Cordoba

A Seljuk leader.

Muslim rulers advanced Muslim civilization by spreading the Arabic language and providing merchants with

Muslim astronomers improved a tool called the _______________, which sailors used to determine their position at sea.

Islam was spread by armies, traders, and preachers called

The Quran provides Muslims with guidelines for 

How did Muslims improve trade?

How did Muhammad create an Islamic State?

Islamic code of law.

Islam teaches that Christians and Jews

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

Soon after Muhammad’s death, the Muslim world split into which two groups?

Whom do Muslims recognize as the final prophet of Islam?

Followers of Muhammad who believed his son-in-law should rule after Muhammad’s death

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

The Sunnis believed that Ali’s descendants should rule Islam. 

A green area in a desert fed by underground water.

Group that believed Umayyad caliphs should rule.

Muslim cities had marketplaces called _______________ that were filled with shops and stalls where goods were sold.

Caliphs who governed the Arab Empire from Damascus.

Desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis in search of water.

Why did Muslims have to choose a caliph?

A Muslim leader

The geography of the Arabian Peninsula could best be described as high plateaus and grassy plains.

The Shiites did not agree that the Umayyad dynasty should rule Islam.

The Moguls created a Muslim empire in Northern Africa.

In Muslim society, social groups were based on 

How did Seljuk Turks affect the Abbasid Dynasty?

Who was the Persian doctor who showed how diseases were spread from person to person?

The early Arabians worshipped many gods and goddesses, but which god was considered to be the most important?

The people at the lowest level of the Muslim society who had no power at all in government were the _________________.

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

Which famous Ottoman sultan was responsible for the empire’s greatest achievements in law, art, architecture and lit.?

The first caliphs were opposed to the teachings of Muhammad.

What covers most of the Arabian Peninsula?

A Muslim house of worship is called a ____________.

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

Which of the following in NOT true?

Why does Islamic Art use designs such as flowers, stars, and writing? Select the best answer.

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

Why did merchants travel in caravans?

A ______________ is a tower from which believers are called to prayer.

The great Mogul ruler brought peace and order to India in the 1500’s.

The first caliph to take over after Muhammad’s death was

The Islamic state was under attack by the Persians.

The word Sultan means “holder of power.”

Muslims, Jews, and Christians have a common belief in 

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

The name given to the followers of Islam

The leader of the Arab tribe

A group for traveling merchants and animals.

Among the many talents, Omar Khayyam is best known as the poet who wrote

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