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Middle East – Rise of Islam
Chapter 14 (p. 186-195)
part of Chapter 15 (p. 201-205)
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Chapter 14
Introduction
1. Where did Islam begin and what percentage of the world’s population are Muslims?
The Life of Muhammad the Prophet
2. Describe Mecca during the life of Muhammad.
3. Describe the supernatural events in Muhammad’s life that led the beginnings of Islam
4. What is the Arabic word for God, used by Muslims?
5. Describe the religion of Mecca before Islam.
6. What do Muslim’s believe the Ka’ba to be?
7. Describe Muhammad’s early success in converting people to Islam.
8. What was the Hijra and why did it happen? Where did Muhammad and his followers go?
9. How did Islam begin to get a real following after the Hijra?
Patterns of Belief in Islamic Doctrine
10. What does the word “Islam” mean?
11. What is the holy book of Islam? When was it written?
12. Please summarize EACH of the Five Pillars of Islam (found on page 189 in the Patterns of Belief:
The Five Pillars of Islam box)
13. What about Islam appealed to those who converted?
14. Please read the “Evidence of the Past: Muhammad Receives his First Revelation” box on pg.
188 to answer the following questions: What is the holiday of Ramadan a celebration of?
Arabia in Muhammad’s Day
15. How is Islam related to Judaism and Christianity?
16. Why is it that some people see Muhammad as a reformer?
17. How did Islam improve the lives of women in Arabia?
The Jihad
18. What are the two different types of Jihad?
19. What factors allowed the Arab armies to conquer the lands of the Persian Empire & parts of the
Byzantine empire?
Read the Patterns of Belief: The Qur’an box on page 191 to answer the following questions.
20. What restrictions are placed on Muslims performing Jihad?
21. What does the Qur’an say about caring for the poor?
22. What does the Qur’an say about Christians and Jews?
The Caliphate
23. What was the Umma & how was it unique in Arabia?
The First Period, 632-661
24. Why did the death of Muhammad cause a crisis in the Umma?
25. What was the debate over, when deciding who should be next to lead?
26. Who was Abu Bakr and how/why did he become the first caliph?
27. Who was Omar and how was his leadership important?
28. What was “Arab Islamic Theocracy”? How were conquered people treated under this system?
The Umayyad Dynasty, 661-750
29. What evidence was there that the elective system for choosing caliphs had failed? What type of
leadership replaced it?
30. Who was Muawiya and why was he important?
31. Who are the Shi’ites and what do they believe?
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The Post-Roman World
Middle East – Rise of Islam
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Chapter 14 (p. 186-195)
part of Chapter 15 (p. 201-205)
What other concerns did Muslims have about the Umayyad dynasty?
Who are the Sunnis and what did they believe?
How did Muawiya change the government of the Islamic world?
What lands were conquered by the Umayyad Dynasty?
What battle and against whom, established the Pyrenees Mountains as the boundary between
Christian Europe and Muslim Europe?
37. How did the Umayyad dynasty handle the conversion of non-Arabs to Islam? What was the
impact of this?
38. How did the Umayyad dynasty end?
39. Where did the new Abbasid dynasty move the capital of the Islamic world to?
The Abbasid Dynasty, 750-1258
40. Why did the Shi’ite faction approve more of the Abbasid dynasty then the Umayyad dynasty?
41. How were the Abbasids different from the Umayyads? What impact did these changes have?
42. Describe the diverse nature of the Muslim empire.
43. How did the Muslim empire start to break apart and why?
Conversion to Islam
44. How did Muslims feel about forced conversion? Why did conquered people convert to Islam?
45. What prohibitions were there on interactions between Muslims and non-Muslims?
46. Who were “Peoples of the Book” (dhimmis) and how were they viewed and treated in Muslim
lands? What limitations were placed on “peoples of the book” in Muslim lands?
Everyday Affairs
47. What kinds of opportunities existed for non-Muslims in Muslim lands?
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Literature and the Natural Sciences
48. Explain the importance of the language Arabic in the Muslim world.
49. Describe advances in Education in the Muslim world.
50. What was the “House of Wisdom” and why was it important?
51. In Math and Science, describe what was being studied in the Muslim world during the Middle
Ages (800-1200 C.E.).
The Arts in the Muslim World
52. Describe Muslim art and why it never had pictures of people in it.
53. Describe Muslim architecture.
54. What advances in writing came out of the Muslim world?
The Muslim Civilization at its Apex
55. Describe the Muslim world at its height (900-1200).
56. What eventually caused the Muslim world to go into a decline?
57. Describe the cities of the Muslim world at its height.
58. How did Muslims feel about becoming wealthy? What impact did this have on the Muslim
world?
Marriage and the Status of Women
59. Where did the Muslim tradition of veiling and the seclusion of women come from?
60. What rules did Muslims have about slaves?
61. In reality, were women in the Muslim world powerless? Explain your answer.
The Decline of the Abbasids and the Coming of the Turks and Mongols
62. Describe the Mongol invasion of Baghdad that brought an end to the Abbasid Dynasty.
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