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Chapter 9 Guided Reading

Lesson 1 (page 206)
Content Vocabulary
Shelkh
Quran
Hijrah
Hajj
Five Pillars of Islam
Sharia

Allah
Muslim
Bedouin

Content Questions
1. Why did communities on the Arabian Peninsula prosper economically?

2. What is an oasis?

3. How do you think a religion would help a group of nomads and farmers
develop into a major civilization?

4. What is the Black Stone and why was it important?

5. Why was it necessary for previous nomadic Arab tribes to organize?

6. What was the significance of Gabriels message to Muhammad

according to Islamic teachings?

7. What is the significance of the city of Makkah to early Islam?

8. What beliefs and ways of life shape the religious traditions of Islam?

9. What similarities and differences exist between the belief system of

Islam and Christianity?

Lesson 2 (page 210)

Content Vocabulary
Callph
Shia
Cosmopolitan
Vizer
Callphate

Jihad
Sunni
Sultan

Content Questions
1. How can religion influence the development of an empire?

2. How might religious beliefs affect society, culture, and politics?

3. Who was Muawiya?

4. Why was the Battle of Tours a turning point in European history?

5. Why was there a break between the Sunni and Shia groups of Islam?

6. How did Islam impact Asia and Africa?

7. Why did the Umayyad dynasty begin to lose the support of the people?

8. How did Arabs views of the ideal citizen change under the Abbasids?

9. Why was the period of Harun al-Rashids rule referred to by some as a

golden age?

10.
How did the prosperous Abbasid dynasty become politically
divided?

11.

What brought about the fall of the Abbasid dynasty?

Lesson 3 (page 217)

Content Vocabulary
Bazaar
Astrolabe
Minaret

Dowry
Arabesque
Muezzin

Content Questions
1. What factors allowed both urban and rural areas to flourish after the
eight century within the Arab Empire?

2. In what ways did trade help expand the reach of Islam?

3. When did Muslim traders begin trading with northern Europe? (Use
map on 218)
4. Where would a trader go to acquire jewels? (Use map on 218)

5. Why would conducting trade by both caravans and ships be lucrative

for the Arab Empire?
6. How were the principles of Islam reflected in the social structure of the
Arab Empire?

7. In what ways were the lives of early Muslim men and women different?

8. What were the major contributions of Islamic scholars?

9. What are the significant characteristics of Islamic visual art?

10.
Which innovations and ideas of Muslim scholars could still be
used today?

11.

How did the arts convey the ideals of spiritual glory in Islam?

12.
How was Islamic art influenced by Arab, Persian, and Turkish
traditions?