Religion and Literature

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca (5)
  2. 4. Muslim name for the one and only God (5)
  3. 6. A Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ (6)
  4. 9. The collective body of ___ throughout the world and history (12)
  5. 11. The collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition that constitute the basis (6)
  6. 12. A religion represented by the many groups that profess various forms of the ___ doctrine (8)
  7. 14. Religion that follows the Quran (5)
  8. 15. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (7)

Down

  1. 1. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew (5)
  2. 2. The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation (5)
  3. 3. An Asian river (6)
  4. 5. Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud (7)
  5. 7. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar (7)
  6. 8. A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on (8)
  7. 10. A Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher (4)
  8. 13. Joint capital of Saudi Arabia (5)