Islam Vocabulary Quiz

From Allah, to Gabriel, to Muhammad, to his followers - this is the Islamic holy book

• Quran

• Hajj

• Yathrib

• Islam

The divine revealer - name of God to Arab Muslims and Arab Christians

• Abu Bakr

• Allah

• Umma

• Jihad

One who has submitted - a follower of Islam

• Abbasids

• Shia

• Sunni

• Muslim

Allah's Greatest Prophet - Said to have talked with the angel Gabriel

• Jesus

• Muhammad

• Abu Bakr

• Yathrib

Muhammad preached against the many gods worshipped here in Mecca.

• Kabba

• Mosque

• Sunni

• hajj

An Islamic Holy City

• Medina

• Umma

• Yathrib

• Shia

If able all Muslims make this pilgrimage to Mecca

• Hajj

• Mecca

• Sunni

• Shia

The early tribes and clans of the Arabian Peninsula

• Bedouins

• Caliphates

• Mosques

• Abbasids

The party of Ali - one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three Sunni caliphs and regards Ali, the fourth caliph, as Muhammad's first true successor.

• Shia

• Sunni

• Caliph

• Abu Bakr

Wanted a leader to follow Muhammad's example - the larger of the two main branches of Islam, which differs from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna, its conception of religious leadership, and its acceptance of the first three caliphs.

• Sunni

• Shia

• Abu Bakr

• Jihad