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Assignment: Rise of Islam
Please answer at least 4 of 8 the following questions on Islam, then respond to 1-2 other students.
Feel free to look outside the book for these.
1. What does Islam and Muslim mean?
2. Importance of Mecca and Medina?
• What is the Hijrah?
• What is the Hajj-what does it represent?
3. The Qur'an-what is its importance to Muslims? (do not just say it is Islam's Bible)
4. What are some similarities and differences among Islam, Christianity and Judaism?
5. Five Pillars, define and explain each.
6. Sunni and Shia split-how, over what issues?
7. What does Jihad mean? How is it related to Razzia?
8. What do Dar al-Islam, and Dar al-Harb mean?
Byzantine and the West during c500-800s
Pick 2 things off the outlines about the Byzantine Empire that you would like to discuss below.
Western Europe
What is the significance of Charlemagne to the west? Also pick 2 things from the outline that you would like to discuss.