Chapter 10: The Islamic World [Practice For Quiz 10]

The mihrab, a semicircular niche set in the qibla wall, possibly honors the place where ____.

The event called the Hijra, which was ____, marks the beginning of Islam.

The Great Mosque at Córdoba has a hypostyle prayer hall with horseshoe-shaped arches adapted from which of the following?

The vault in the Hall of the Abencerrajes is meant to symbolize ____.

The structural foundation of the Great Mosque of Damascus used a ____ as its foundation.

The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad caliphs and established a new capital at ____.

Critical of the polytheistic religion of his fellow Arabs, Muhammad had all the idols destroyed, but he preserved the Kaaba. Which of the following supports the reason for this preservation?

At the Cordoba maqsura, the architects experimented with ____.

The ____ was the greatest achievement of the court architect, Suleyman the Magnificent.

An ancient Arab proverb proclaims "Purity of writing, is purity of soul" and describes which of the following?

The Saminid mausoleum from Bukhara can be said to be which of the following structure types?

The coming of a new religion to Jerusalem, a city sacred to both Jews and Christians, is marked by a monument known as the ____.

Too tall to call Muslims to prayer, the Malwiya minaret in Samarra may have functioned as a symbol of the ____.

The ____ is the leader of collective worship who preaches from the minbar.

The sacred book of Islam is the Koran, or recitations. The recitations or instructions were given to Muhammad by the ____.

The practice of ____ was considered a holy task and required arduous training.

In the 10th century, Caliph al-Hakam II undertook major renovations of the Great Mosque at Córdoba in imitation of his ____ predecessors in Jerusalem and Damascus.?

The new style of mosque developed by the Ottomans can be described as ____.

The positioning of all mosques, no matter period or country, must be oriented toward which of the following cities?

In the seventh century, the capital of Islam had been transferred from Mecca to Damascus by the ____.

Which of the following is built over the place from which Muhammad began his miraculous journey to heaven?

Umayyad palaces included elaborate bathing facilities, which were an inheritance from ____?

How is interior architectural space defined in the Muslim world?

In the mid-13th century, the Mongols conquered much of the eastern Islamic world. The center of Islamic power moved from Baghdad to Egypt. The lords of Egypt at that time were Mamluks. The definition of the word Mamluk translates to ____?

The supposed precursor of the hypostyle designed mosques, such as Kairouan, is ____.

Islamic religious architecture is closely related to ____.

The design of Islamic Korans has parallels in ____.