Islam Quiz Review - Central Beliefs, Early Expansion, and Golden Age Achievements

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  1. 4. Islamic mathematicians created this field of math to help find missing values in equations
  2. 5. Muslim astronomers revised star charts, updating information on stars' positions and ____________
  3. 7. Shahada - The proclamation that there is no god but _________ and Muhammad is his prophet/messenger
  4. 9. Zakat - Muslims are expected to give approximately 2.5% of their ___________ to charitiy
  5. 11. a follower of Islam
  6. 13. the majority of Muslims in the world today belong to this denomination of Islam
  7. 14. the best English translation of 'Jihad'
  8. 16. the title given to the leaders of the Islamic empires of the Middle Ages
  9. 18. by measuring the angle of the sun at noon, Muslim cartographers were able to measure their cities' ___________
  10. 20. the primary holy book of Islam
  11. 21. a book of Muhammad's sayings and actions, written down by those who knew him
  12. 23. the first of the Islamic empires to rise and spread across the Mediterranean world
  13. 24. Salat - Muslims must pray ______ times a day facing Mecca
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  1. 1. Islam originated on the ___________ Peninsula
  2. 2. scholars and scientists of the golden age of Islam met and shared ideas at the famous House of Wisdom in ________
  3. 3. Islamic mathematicians advanced this field of math involving triangles (and, weirdly, circles)
  4. 6. Muslim scholars standardized the Arabic writing system, leading to beautiful _____________
  5. 8. Muslim zoologists studied animals in their natural ____________
  6. 10. Muslim doctors advanced medical knowledge by _______ patients in hospitals
  7. 12. the first four leaders of Islam after Muhammad's death are known as the __________ Guided Caliphs
  8. 14. the only part of western Europe that Islam had reached by the 8th century CE
  9. 15. Siyam - Muslims are required to __________ during the holy month of Ramadan
  10. 17. Muslim scholars ___________ many ancient Greek and Persian texts by translating them and storing them safely
  11. 19. it means 'surrender to God's will', but not in a bad way
  12. 22. a pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are expected to make once in their lifetime