Islam as a political movement Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Islam has 20 clues. Answers range from 4 to 23 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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political Islam, also known as...
After death of Muhammad, his community needed to appoint a new leader, giving rise to the title...
the subsequent Islamic empires were known as...
the major political development within Islam in this period was the sectarian split between... Muslims
Sunni Muslims believed the caliphate was...
Shi'ites, believed the caliphate should be
the... sect emerged as triumphant in most of the Muslim world
Muhammad's closest companions, the four "..." Caliphs who succeeded him, continued to expand the state to encompass Jerusalem, Ctesiphon, and Damascus, and Sindh.
The Islamic empire stretched from Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) to the Punjab under the reign of the...
The conquering Arab armies took the system of laws and courts to their new military camps and cities
These institutions resulted in the development of a class of... (classical Islamic scholars) who could serve as qadis (Sharia-court judges)
medieval legal terms such as khalifa, sharia, fiqh, maddhab, jizya, and dhimmi all remain part of... Islamic vocabulary.
An important Islamic concept concerning the structure of ruling is?
Since the scholarly and legal traditions of the ulema were well-established by the time of the Abbasids, the political organization of later Middle Eastern empires and kingdoms (including the Ayyubid, Seljuk, Fatimid, Mamluk and Mongol) had little impact on... ideals
One type of ruler not part of the Islamic ideal was the... , which was disparaged in Quran's mentions of the Pharaoh
who was the founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of fiqh, also wrote that the leader must come from the majority ?
who was the Western scholar of Islam, that argues the standard Arabian practice during the early Caliphates was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves, although there was no specified procedure for this shura, or consultative assembly ?
the majority ... view that the head of state or governor should be chosen based on lineage alone.
Political aspects of Islam are derived from the...
another way of saying, consultation from their subjects

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