Chapter 22 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. political organization claiming to represent the world's Palestinians
- 5. translates to "praiseworthy"
- 8. a muslim place of worship
- 9. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 11. the larger of the two main branches of Islam
- 12. an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq
- 13. an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam
- 14. the religion of the muslims
- 15. a place of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people
Down
- 1. an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque
- 3. a member of a mainly Islamic people living in parts of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran, and eastern Syria.
- 4. relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
- 6. the monotheistic religion of the Jewish people
- 7. a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation
- 10. a militant Pashtun nationalist organization in Afghanistan
- 12. a place regarded as a center for a specified group, activity, or interest