Middle East

2. Muslim holy book.
6. Islam's holy month, when Muslims were to eat nothing or drink nothing between sunrise and sunset.
9. The body of law governing the lives of Muslims.
10. The name of the peninsula that occupies the southern part of the region of Southwest Asia. Largest peninsula in the world and the birthplace of Islam.
11. The climate in much of the Middle East.
13. Petroleum as it is found in the ground.
16. Belief in one god.
17. The name of the state-owned oil company in Saudi Arabia.
19. Measures the well-being of a country's people.
20. A measure of the goods and services produced by a country each year.

1. Organization formed by several oil-exporting countries to control the prices of oil.
3. Name of Muslim god.
4. An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. Known as the "cradle of civilization".
5. Islamic term for pilgrimage.
7. Dictator of Iraq when Iraq invaded Kuwait in what was known as the Persian Gulf War.
8. A resource that takes so long to form that it can't be replaced.
9. An Islamc model for living, based on the life and teachings of Muhammad.
12. Per person.
14. One of the duties of Islam, giving help to the needy.
15. An Islamic place of worship.
18. Prophet who founded Islam.