The Arab Rule

3. Who was born in the year 570 in Mecca?
4. The leader of the angels and the one who delivered to Muhammad the revelations from God.
6. Who was accused of sending wheat to the Italians and was imprisoned?
7. The cave Muhammad was sitting in when God spoke to him is found on Mount _________.
9. Along with Mecca, another important city for Islam is _________.
11. The most important religious building in all of Arabia.
14. Discoveries were made close to Mdina, amongst these, a _______ was found.
15. What was the person in charge of the island called?
16. Apart from Maltese village names we also find to have a lot of ___________ which have an Arabic origin.
17. Muhammad was nicknamed ‘Al-Amin’ meaning ‘The ____________’.
19. People who travel around all the time and had no fixed home.
20. Arabesque is a famous Arabian ____________.

1. The Muslims introduced a new wonderful and essential trade of _________-________.
2. A large continent, in the north of which Islam is the major religion.
5. If the Maltese people decided to keep their faith they had to pay a special tax called ________.
8. The most important period of reflection and fasting in the Islamic calendar.
10. We changed these from Roman to the Arab system and we still use them everyday.
12. A type of fruit introduced to the Maltese Island by the Arabs?
13. The number of pillars of Islam
14. After 220 years under the Arabs, Malta was conquered by King ______ II of Sicily.
18. By the 9th century the Arabs had built the first ____________ in Baghdad.