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Movie Notes—Islam: Empire of Faith, Part 1 1. We do know that Muhammad was born in or around _______________ on the Arabian Peninsula. 2. While still an _______________ Muhammad's parents gave him his first taste of life in the desert. 3. By the time Muhammad was __________, both of his parents had died, and he was taken under the protection of his ______________, chief of his clan 4. Muhammad's clan would share the _______________ that had been told and retold for generations. 5. To the Bedouin, the _____________ had a mystical importance. ______________ linked the tribe to its ancestors and celebrated values older than memory. 6. ___________________ and ___________________were the grim realities of a dangerous time. 7. Without the tribe's _______________________, no one could endure. 8. Tribes defended precious grazing _____________, trade _______________, and __________. 9. Each (pre-Islamic) clan had its own separate ___________ and totems to water and wind, fire and night. 10. They (the totems) were kept in the caravan town of _________________ in a shrine of wood, stone and cloth. 11. It was called the Kaaba, the Arabic word for _________________. 12. It was said the Hebrew patriarch _____________________ himself built the Kaaba centuries before and that a sacred black stone it held within had fallen from the ____________. 13. Muhammad became a _______________; in fact, he had a great flair for __________________. 14. At the age of 25, his talents caught the eye of a wealthy _______________ named Khadijah. She was so taken with Muhammad; she proposed _______________________. 15. Muhammad had a way with people, and with resolving their ___________________. He became known as the _________________ ____________ (two words in English). 16. In a _____________above Mecca, Muhammad had an experience that would be the defining moment of his life. An angel was said to appear before him in the form of a ___________, instructing him to ________________ in the name of God, the Almighty. 17. Above all, Muhammad was to bear one message to his people, a simple yet radical proclamation: that there is only ____________ _____________. 18. One ___________ meant one _________________. No more tribal divisions. 19. Muhammad's following began to grow. They called themselves 'Muslims', for (meaning) those who _______________________ ______ ___________ (three words). 1 Movie Notes—Islam: Empire of Faith, Part 1 20. The Qur'an is a revelation of spiritual teaching, of both ethical and ___________________ guidance. It was revealed, and remains, in ____________________. 21. Rather than a ________________________ image of God, or of Muhammad, it is the beauty of the Qur'an itself that is celebrated in Islam. 22. As Muhammad's community grew, so did the _____________________________. 23. The tribal leaders demanded that Muhammad's uncle remove his clan's ___________________ from the Prophet, which would clear the way for his ______________ without the threat of retribution. 24. Muhammad's followers were forced from the marketplace and ________________________. 25. In 619 AD, Muhammad's _______________ and __________________ died. It was the opportunity his enemies had been waiting for. 26. Muhammad agreed to travel to Yathrib and settle their disputes in exchange for a ____________ ____________________ (two words) for his people. 27. Their journey is known as the Hijrah. The year __________ AD in the Christian calendar marks the Muslim Year 1. 28. Yathrib would become known as the “City of the Prophet,” or ___________________________. 29. Muhammad’s people began to gather _______________. Though the Muslims prepared as best they could, they were outnumbered and outmatched. They mustered a force of only __________ against _________________. 30. For __________ years, the Muslim army held out against staggering odds. 31. In 630 AD, the terrified people of Mecca braced for Muhammad's army now _________________ strong. 32. It was not the _____________ Muhammad had come to destroy; it was their ___________. 33. In just _________ years, Muhammad's vision had transformed the spiritual and ___________ map of the world and his followers had established an empire larger than Rome. 34. But, Muhammad never ____________ to see it. In the 11th year of the Islamic calendar, ___________ AD, only two years after the taking of Mecca, Muhammad died. 35. Awaiting the Muslims would be a new ___________.They would be destined for ___________________________, for new horizons, and a clash of great powers the like of which the world had never seen. 2