Chapter 14 Review Crossword
Across
- 2. the larger of the two main branches of Islam
- 3. capital and largest city of Iraq
- 4. Area of water and tree in the desert
- 7. Major religion of the middle east
- 10. an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements
- 11. a Muslim sovereign
- 12. standard Arabic word for God
- 13. a market in a Middle Eastern country.
- 15. a small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca
- 16. a member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 to 750
- 17. one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran
- 18. the prophet and founder of Islam
- 20. the Islamic sacred book
Down
- 1. a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
- 4. a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe
- 5. an Arab leader, in particular the chief or head of an Arab tribe, family, or village.
- 6. a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
- 8. a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258.
- 9. Islam's legal system
- 14. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler
- 19. a Muslim place of worship.