Exam 5: The Islamic World

The Friday Mosque is the earliest example of a _____ mosque.

A mosque's _____ resembled Muhammad's house in Medina.

Islam arose in _____ in the seventh century.

Islam's sacred book is the _____.

Muslims are called to pray from the _____.

What explains the absence of figures in Islamic art?

A characteristic feature of the prayer hall at the mosque, or Mezquita, at Córdoba is the _____.

The _____ may honor where Muhammad stood while leading worship.

The distinctive feature of the Malwiya minaret is its _____.

In what type of art will you find narrative images with human figures?

What are you unlikely to find in the decoration of a mosque?

The muqarnas dome in the Palace of the Lions symbolized _____.

What is the Shahnama?

How was calligraphy used in Islamic art?

_____ was the capital of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty.

Following Muhammad's practice, Islamic leaders, or _____, were secular and religious leaders.

What are muqarnas, and what visual effect do they produce?

Describe the method for producing early Korans.

What was the purpose of the Malwiya minaret?

What was significant about the location chosen for the Dome of the Rock?