Across
- 1. Islam’s holiest city
- 4. the central religious text of Islam
- 5. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler
- 8. Abrahamic monotheistic religion
- 10. a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam.
- 14. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire
- 16. also called the Battle of Poitiers
- 18. an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam.
- 19. an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount
- 21. fundamental practices in Islam
- 22. a triangular sail set
Down
- 1. one who practices Islam
- 2. was a kingdom centered in Northeast Africa and South Arabia
- 3. the larger of the two main branches of Islam
- 6. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.
- 7. The regular praying place for muslims
- 9. an umbrella term used to describe the socio-religious group
- 11. a religious structure at the center of Islam's most important mosque
- 12. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
- 13. Islamic canonical law
- 15. annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca,
- 17. an ancient astronomical instrument that was a handheld model of the universe
- 20. type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.
