Arabia/Islam

the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in AD 622 marking the founding of Islam

• Kaaba

• Quran

• Medina

• hijra

an Arabian oasis city believed to be the birth place of Muhammad

• Mecca

• Caliph

• Medina

• Kaaba

Founder of Islam whose words are recorded in the Quran

• Muslim

• Caliph

• Mecca

• Muhammad

the most holy book of Islam, believed to contain the teachings of Allah, or God, to Muhammad

• nomad

• Quran

• caravan

• hijra

the religion of Muslims based on the teaching of the prophet Muhammad in the AD 600's

• Islam

• hijra

• Kaaba

• Quran

followers of Islam

• Ramadan

• mosque

• bedouin

• Muslim

desert dweller

• Muslim

• bedouin

• Ramadan

• Medina

Capital and cultural center of the Muslim caliphate from AD 762 to 1100; present day capital of Iraq

• Baghdad

• Ramadan

• caravan

• Medina

the five basic duties of all Muslims

• cartography

• pilgrimage

• Five Pillars

• cartographer

a group of people and animals traveling together for safety especially through the desert

• caravan

• Baghdad

• algebra

• Ramadan