Social Studies Ch 11 7th grade
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- Who became the leader of Islam after muhammad's death?
- Abu Bakr
- Who was the early Islamic doctor who compiled a medical encyclopedia that was used in Europe for centuries?
- al-Razi
- What is the Arabic word that means "submission to the will of God?"
- Islam
- What is the holy book containing rules and instructions that guide the lives of Muslims?
- Qur'an
- Who is the character who is the basis for the Thousand and One Nights?
- Scheherazade
- Who was a group of Muslims who believed that imams should decide religious and wordly matters?
- Shi'ah
- What Islamic leaders murder started a split in the Muslim community?
- Uthaman
- Who was the Berber leader in North Africa whose Muslim army invaded and conquered Spain?
- Tariq
- Who was the strong leader whose conquests expanded Islam into the Persian Empire?
- Umar
- What Muslims believed that religious matters should be settled by agreement among the Muslim people
- Sunni
- What is an Islamic leader who was considered the "successor to the Prophet."
- A caliph
- Early advances in Muslims' geography and astronomy were mostly related to what?
- their trade
- What shaped the lifestyle of the Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula?
- The environment
- What was Muhammad before he founded Islam?
- a trader
- Muslims considered Muhammad to be what?
- the prophet of Islam
- Muhammad accepted what as part of God's teachings?
- the Bible
- Who became the ruling force in the Islamic world in the 1100's?
- the Turks
- Where did the Turks spread Islam?
- Asia Minor and across northern India
- By 750 the Muslim Empire had spread into ___________, __________, and __________.
- India, North Africa and Spain
- Who had more rights and freedoms in the Qur'an than under Arab law?
- Women
- Name three areas where Muslims contributed to the advancment.
- geograhpy, medicine and astronomy
- What was the reason Islam divide into two main branches?
- a dispute over who should be caliph