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- 3. the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
- 4. a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate
- 6. a black box that is a shrine to Abraham
- 7. the Muslim profession of faith (“there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”).
- 9. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad
- 10. the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset
- 12. the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world.
- 14. obligatory payment made annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property and used for charitable and religious purposes.
- 18. a member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain from 756 to 1031. The dynasty claimed descent from Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad.
- 20. the founder of Baghdad
- 22. the one true god in Islam
- 23. a chapter in the Quran
- 24. a historical term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection.
- 25. the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia
- 26. a nomadic Arab of the desert
- 27. someone who practices Islam thehouseofwisdom a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad
- 28. the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime.
- 29. the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia
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- 1. the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form.
- 2. the prophet ____
- 5. relating to a dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258.
- 8. a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
- 11. a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam
- 13. fasting from dawn until dusk during Ramadan, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
- 15. the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.
- 16. a verse in the Quran
- 17. the round city
- 19. an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria
- 21. an Arab market or marketplace; a bazaar.
- 27. a person involved in trade or commerce