The Worlds of Islam

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Across
  1. 2. the emigration to Yathrib, soon to be called Medina, the city of the prophet
  2. 4. Battuta an Islamic traveler and scholar who traveled throughout most of the Islamic world during 1304-1369 C.E., recording his findings in his journal, named Rihla.
  3. 6. "people of the book"
  4. 8. the western peninsula of Asia, bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas, that forms the greater part of Turkey.
  5. 10. the just and moral society of Islam
  6. 11. Islam canonical law based on the teaching of the Koran and the traditions of the prophet.
  7. 12. a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak
Down
  1. 1. a tax levied on non-Muslims
  2. 3. Persian physician and philosopher whose medical textbook, The Canon of Medicine, is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that remained a standard work in European medical studies until the 17th century.
  3. 5. of Islam five basic acts in Islam, considered mandatory by believers and are the foundation of Muslim life
  4. 7. formal colleges that offered more advanced instructions to the Quran and the sayings of Muhammad
  5. 9. the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God