"The Muslim World"-Isom Hill
Across
- 2. The art of beautiful handwriting
- 4. A title that means“successor” or “deputy.”
- 5. Those who did not outwardly resist the rule of the Umayyads later became known as blank, meaning followers of Muhammad’s example.
- 6. In the early 800s, Caliph al-Ma’mun opened in Baghdad a combination library, academy, and translation center called the what?
- 9. The blank is the standard for all Arabic literature and poetry.
- 11. Muslim contributions in the sciences were most recognizable in medicine, mathematics, and blank.
- 12. In this view, the caliph needed to be a descendant of Muhammad. This group was called?
- 13. Blank is the Muslim god.
- 15. Blank was a Jewish physician and philosopher, was born in Córdoba and lived in Egypt.
- 16. A blank kept track of the money flow.
- 17. A group that rejected the luxurious life of the Umayyads.
- 18. The most powerful of those groups, the blank, took control of the Umayyad empire.
Down
- 1. Muhhamad was known as the blank of Allah.
- 2. Some Muslim scholars used Greek ideas in fresh new ways causing blank.
- 3. The blank caliphate was formed by Shi'a, Muslims who claimed descent from Muhammad's daughter Fatima.
- 7. These people abandoned the simple life of previous caliphs and began to surround themselves with wealth and ceremonies similar to that of non-Muslim rulers.
- 8. The Berber armies then settled in southern Spain, where they helped form an extraordinary Muslim state in where?
- 10. Muslim scholars believed that blank was the basis of all knowledge.
- 14. However, the Qur'an also declares that men and blank, as believers, are equal.