Islam means submission to God. Islamic art and architecture had a significant influence on Western medieval art. Some key Islamic architectural structures mentioned are the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria, and the Taj Mahal in India. The Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain was one of the largest mosques in Islamic Western Europe and was influenced by the Umayyad caliph al-Hakam II.

1. Islam By: Hailey Featherstone, Emily Sibley, Erin Ford, Catie Dawson

3. Islam Islam means submission to God Arab scholars laid the foundations of arithmitic and algebra Islamic art made an impact on western medieval art TajMahal is an Islamic mausoleum

4. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-692

5. Interior of the Dome of the Rock

7. San Vitale, Ravenna

8. Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria

9. Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria

10. Mosaic in courtyard, Great Mosque of Damascus

11. Frieze of the Umayyad palace, Mshatta, Jordan 740-750

12. Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia

13. Malwiya minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq

14. Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq

15. Mausoleum of the Samanids, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

16. Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 8th to 10th centuries

18. Influenced the Christian west

19. The Great mosque

20. One of the largest in the Islamic west

22. Maquarnas dome, Hall of the Two Sisters, Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain, 1354-1391

23. Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain

24. Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain

25. Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356

26. Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356

27. Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edrine, Turkey, 1568-1575

28. Sinan interior

29. Sinan interior

30. Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran

31. Shahi Mosque, Isfahan, Iran

33. Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Iran 1354

34. Maqsud of Kashan Ardabil, Iran 1540

35. Sultan-Muhammad Tabriz, Iran 1525-1535 From the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

40. Canteen with episodes from the life of Christ, from Syria 1240-1250

44. Timeline 570 – Birth of Muhammad 642 - Muslim conquest of Lower Egypt 711 – Muslim armies enter Spain 762 – Abbasids found Baghdad 1099 – First Crusade captures Jerusalem 1281 – Ottoman empire founded 1492 – Fall of Granada to the Christians