Monotheistic Religions

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The head of the Roman Catholic Church (4)
  2. 4. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca (5)
  3. 5. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar (7)
  4. 8. An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea (9)
  5. 9. An adherent of ___ (10)
  6. 10. Country in the Middle East with Jerusalem (6)
  7. 13. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (8)
  8. 14. Muslim name for the one and only God (5)
  9. 15. Central figure of Christianity, born in Bethlehem (5)

Down

  1. 1. Joint capital of Saudi Arabia (5)
  2. 3. The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel (5)
  3. 6. Belief in a single God (10)
  4. 7. Follower of ___ doctrines (7)
  5. 11. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac (7)
  6. 12. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew (5)
  7. 13. Prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt (5)