HOMME Final

1299-1922

Reign of the Ottoman Empire

Russia

Biggest problem for 19th century Ottomans

Valide Sultan

What was the Sultan’s mother, the most powerful woman in the Harem, called?

United States of America

Who is the “Great Satan”?

Abbasids

Empire that preceded the Ottoman Empire

Siyasa

Set of severe punishments imposed by sultan on corrupt officials

Nakshedil (or Aimée du Buc de Rivéry)

Legendary Valide Sultan, possibly of French origin

Roxelana

Scheming wife of Suleyman

Janissaries

First Ottoman standing army

Sumayyah bint Khubbat

First martyr in Islam

Hajj

Pilgrammage to Mecca

Kaaba

Holy site in Mecca

Baghdad

Gem of islam

8th century

When did the Golden Age of Islam begin?

Jimmy Carter

US president during Iranian hostage crisis

16th century

What century did the ‘Reign of Women’ begin?

Khadijah

The wealthy widow that became Muhammad’s first wife

Suleyman

Sultan who reigned during greatest period of justice and harmony in Islamic history

Al-Khwarizmi

Inventor of algebra

Madrasahs

Educational institutions during the Golden Age

Arab-Israeli War

War that immediately followed declaration of State of Israel in 1948

Mehmed the Conquerer

Sultan who conquered Constantinople

Bedouin

Nomadic desert societies who migrate in search of grass and water

Rabbat-al-bait

Title used for temple priestess during pre-Islamic period

Mamluks

Muhammad Ali assassinated 74 elite members of this group as they exited an elite banquet in Cairo.

Egypt

By the 1700s, this future independent nation was known as the “linchpin of the Ottoman Empire”.

Abd ar-Rahman I

Umayyad who escaped Abbasid agents who travelled to Spain to start his own independent Umayyad dynasty

Calligraphy

Form of writing that flourished during the Golden Age

Abudi Hospital

First large public hospital

Ibn al-Haytham

Who is Golden Age mathematician and scientist who made advances in physics and optics?

Arab Revolt

British-Arab WWI attack against Ottomans

Winston Churchill

British Prime minister who reversed public policy and allowed Jews into Palestine

ARAMCO

1944 Joint oil enterprise between US and Saudi Arabia

Gabriel

Who provided Muhammad with revelations from God?

Ibn Khaldun

In the 14th and 15th centuries, this individual travelled through the Islamic world, describing and analysing the customs of the people.

Pahlavi family

Family of the Shah of Iran during the Iranian Revolution

Ayatollah Khomeini

Leader of 1979 revoluton who hated the US

Muhammad

Born in 570, this prophet introduced Islam.

Theodor Herzl

Journalist associated with origin of the Zionist movement

Odalisque

Title given to slave woman when she first entered the harem.

Eunoch

Besides the Sultan himself, the only man allowed in the Imperial quarters was a member of this society.

Suez Canal

One of Muhammad Ali’s sons was responsible for the completion of this canal.

White paper

1939 British document that capped Jewish immigration into Palestine at 70,000 within a four-year period

Muhammad Wahhab

This founder of Wahabism was taken in by the Saud family.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

President of Turkey from 1923 to 1939

Ibn Saud

In 1932, this individual named Saudi Arabia.

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

Palestinian broadcasted anti-Jewish rhetoric during WWII

T.E. Lawrence

British military man who trained troops to bring about Arab Revolt

Caliph

Title given to religious and political leader in the Islamic world

Thomas Aquinas

13th century Catholic thinker inspired by Islam