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Chapter 6: The World of Islam

Name: ______________________
Period: ______________
Horizontales
This religion's name means "peace through submission to the will of Allah"
Muslims who did not all agree with Umayyad rule, but accepted the Umayyad as rulers, or caliphs
A successor of Muhammad as spiritual and temporal leader of the Muslims
The title for this ruler means "holder of power"
A nomadic people from central Asia who had converted to Islam and prospered as soldiers
Arab prophet from the seventh century
A desert land lacking in rivers and lakes, where the Arabs lived
This is the name for the city of Mecca
This is the name given to the Arabs from the desert
There are five of these in the religion of Islam and they include belief, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage
Verticales
This name is Arabic for God
This is the holy book of the religion of Islam
The title given to a prime minister of the council who advised the caliph
The city to which the Umayyad dynasty moved the capital of the Arab Empire. This city is also the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world.
These transported highly prized frankincense and myrrh along the trade route through the Arabian Peninsula to Southwest Asia
A law code developed by scholars after the death of Muhammad
Chosen by a council of elders to rule a tribe
The Abbasid dynasty built this capital city on the Tigris River, to take advantage of river traffic
This is the term for "struggle in the way of God" as permitted by The Quran
This is the name for the journey to the holy city of Madinah
These non-Muslim people were a pastoral, horse-riding people who swept out of the Gobi Desert in the early thirteenth century to seize control over much of the known world. As invaders, they were destructive in their conquests.
Muslims who accept only descendants of Ali as the true rulers of Islam
A pilgrimage to Makkah, one of the requirements of the Five Pillars of Islam