Across
- 2. subject, non-Muslims living under Islamic rule...taxed or placed under certain rules
- 6. nomadic desert dwellers
- 10. Islamic rule in northern India...ruled by a sultan
- 12. the title of the "pope" and king of the Islamic world
- 13. the holy book of Islam
- 15. the language of "high society" in the Abbasid court
- 16. holiest shrine in all of Islam
- 17. Islamic mystics...often missionaries of the faith
Down
- 1. "community"
- 3. the Islamic "Marco Polo" who's writings/journeys give great insight into the Islamic world
- 4. "the Golden Age" of Islam
- 5. the five central practices of Islam
- 7. the first major Islamic dynasty...period of greatest expansion
- 8. the founder (considered the final prophet of Allah by Muslims) of Islam
- 9. the most important city in the Islamic world for trade and worship
- 11. the pilgrimage to Mecca
- 14. the language that became the lingua franca of the Islamic world under the Umayyads
