Across
- 2. a follower of the religion of Islam
- 3. enabled the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease
- 4. the central, religious text of Islam
- 6. belief in one, singular God
- 7. the birthplace of Islam
- 9. first brewed in Yemen, helped Sufi's complete their nightly prayers
- 10. a fertile region of land in the middle of a desert
- 11. a place that provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick.
- 12. Muslims do this five times a day
- 14. an Islam place of worship
- 16. the founder of Islam
- 17. the study that includes how Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye
- 19. an illustrated encyclopedia of this was published by Al Zahrawi and used as a reference for over 500 years
- 20. first machine to take to the air, invented by Abbas ibn Firnas
Down
- 1. a religious journey to show devotion
- 2. the region where Islam began
- 5. still in operation today, it was the first one of these to grant degrees
- 8. the Prophet Muhammad popularized this tool for dental hygiene
- 13. a form of math that was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes
- 15. abstaining from eating and drinking to show gratitude to Allah
- 18. the climate of the Arabian peninsula