Chapter 15 Part 2

2. city that connected Muslims to China with caravan routes
7. another name for woven fabrics
8. poet that wrote about Sufism
9. type of scholars that made advances in medicine & algebra
10. means successor as in the person who was to take over after Muhammad died
11. leaders of non-Arab Muslim states were known as
13. the Safavid Empire was started in which country in the 1500s
15. Muslims that wanted a relative of Muhammad as caliph

1. True or False: the city of Damascus was never important in Islamic culture
3. During the Arab conquest, which religion spread inside & outside of their empire
4. the most powerful non-Arab Muslim Empire was the
5. topic Muslim scholar Avicenna wrote a famous book about
6. type of numerals Islamic people gave to us (0,1,2...9)
12. True or False: Baghdad became the capital for the Abbasid Empire
14. Muslims that wanted a skilled politician and devout Muslim as caliph