Name the peninsula which is surrounded by the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Give the name for the nomads which were organized into tribes and lived in the desert. Their ideals of courage and loyalty to family, along with their warrior skill would become part of the Islamic way of life.

This term means “submission to the will of Allah”

Where do Muslims have communal worship (on Friday afternoons)?

Name the Holy Book of Islam.

What is the name which Muslims call God?

Name the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad.

Which branch of Islam pursued a life of poverty and devotion (personal contact with God through mystical means; meditation and chants)?

Believers are forbidden to eat what meat?

Give the name for the supreme political and religious figure in Muslim government.