2020 Review

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  1. 3. the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
  2. 4. a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate
  3. 6. a black box that is a shrine to Abraham
  4. 7. the Muslim profession of faith (“there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”).
  5. 9. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad
  6. 10. the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset
  7. 12. the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world.
  8. 14. obligatory payment made annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property and used for charitable and religious purposes.
  9. 18. a member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain from 756 to 1031. The dynasty claimed descent from Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad.
  10. 20. the founder of Baghdad
  11. 22. the one true god in Islam
  12. 23. a chapter in the Quran
  13. 24. a historical term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection.
  14. 25. the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia
  15. 26. a nomadic Arab of the desert
  16. 27. someone who practices Islam thehouseofwisdom a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad
  17. 28. the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime.
  18. 29. the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia
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  1. 1. the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form.
  2. 2. the prophet ____
  3. 5. relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258.
  4. 8. a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
  5. 11. a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam
  6. 13. fasting from dawn until dusk during Ramadan, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
  7. 15. the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.
  8. 16. a verse in the Quran
  9. 17. the round city
  10. 19. an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria
  11. 21. an Arab market or marketplace; a bazaar.
  12. 27. a person involved in trade or commerce