Muslim Innovations and Adaptations
Across
- 1. to decorate a book with detailed designs and small pictures, especially using gold, silver, or bright colors
- 5. a man who calls Muslims to prayer
- 6. a scholar, teacher, or thinker who seeks knowledge
- 9. a change made to an existing object or way of doing things
- 12. the slow process of change in plants and animals from simpler forms to more complex forms
- 14. able to live forever
- 15. a mathematical statement in which the answer equals the statement
- 16. a title that refers to the spiritual leader of an Islamic community,
Down
- 2. a group of people or things with obvious differences between one another
- 3. tower
- 4. a short flight of steps used as a platform by a preacher in a mosque.
- 5. the Muslim house of worship
- 7. related to the interest in or study of ideas
- 8. something new; an improvement
- 10. the person who leads prayers in the mosque
- 11. a way of thinking that uses reason
- 13. the study of the stars and planets