Deck 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Question 1

How did Turks, Christians, and Mongols influence the course of Islamic civilization?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are the basic beliefs of the Islamic religion? To what degree are they reflective of the experiences of Muhammad and the culture of Arabian society in this time?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What led to the decline of Andalusia as a cultural center? Explain.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Discuss the different meanings of the word 'jihad' as defined by the Qur'an and modern-day usage.

Question 5

What accounts for the rapid expansion of the Arabs after the rise of Islam in the early seventh century?

Question 6

What led to the Sunni-Shi'ite split within Islam? What were the consequences of this split?

Question 7

How did the founding of Islam compare and contrast with that of the other major monotheistic religions?

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Muhammad

Question 9

Compare and contrast the origins and achievements of the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid regimes.

Question 10

How did the political structures associated with Muslim rule evolve over time? Give examples.

Question 11

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Allah

Question 12

What role did Arabs come to play in regional trade? Provide examples.

Question 13

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Bedouin

Question 14

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majlis

Question 15

What were the wider conditions in the Middle Eastern region during the time of Muhamad's birth and youth? How had conditions changed by the late 7^th century?

Question 16

What rights did women have within Islamic society?

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Ka'aba

Question 18

What were the key characteristics of Islamic science and philosophy? How were Islamic science and philosophy influenced by the Greco-Roman legacy?

Question 19

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Mecca

Question 20

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sheikh

Question 21

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ulama

Question 22

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Shari'a

Question 23

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Ramadan

Question 24

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Abu al-Abbas and the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad

Question 25

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Hadith

Question 26

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114 suras

Question 27

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Five Pillars of Islam

Question 28

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umma

Question 29

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Qur'an

Question 30

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Muslim

Question 31

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Shi'ites

Question 32

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jihad

Question 33

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Ali and Abu Bakr

Question 34

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Hegira

Question 35

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Medina

Question 36

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caliph

Question 37

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Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus

Question 38

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Gabriel

Question 39

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imam

Question 40

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Islam

Question 41

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Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat

Question 42

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Harun al-Rashid

Question 43

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Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock

Question 44

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Seljuk Turks

Question 45

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Mongols

Question 46

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The Arabian Nights

Question 47

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Andalusia

Question 48

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al-jebr

Question 49

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Ferdowzi's The Book of Kings

Question 50

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Fatimids and Cairo

Question 51

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Sunni

Question 52

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Ibn Rushd/Averroës and Ibn Sina/Avicenna

Question 53

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Saladin

Question 54

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vizier

Question 55

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Genghis Kahn, Khubilai Kahn, and Helegu

Question 56

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Sufism

Question 57

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Almoravids

Question 58

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sultan

Question 59

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Maimonides

Question 60

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Sadi's Rose Garden

Question 61

What does the 'Hajj' refer to?

A) A pilgrimage to Mecca
B) Ka'aba in Mecca
C) The contents of the Ka'aba
D) Muslim leader or caliph
E) A religious war

Question 62

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
the Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Charles Martel

Question 64

According to Islamic belief

A) Muhammad created the concept of Allah.
B) Allah sent not his first but his final message through Muhammad.
C) the teachings of Jesus and Moses are incorrect and immoral.
D) Allah ordained that Muhammad was a subordinate God.
E) there is no afterlife for the individual.

Question 65

The city to which Muhammad went to in 622, a journey known as the Hijrah , was

A) Mecca.
B) Medina.
C) Jerusalem.
D) Riyad.
E) Damascus.

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Camel

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
mikrah

Question 68

The Koran or Qur'an

A) is the book containing the holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism.
B) contains the guidelines by which a Hindu was to live.
C) was derived from the revelations of Muhammad.
D) means, literally, "acceptance."
E) was first written in 776 C.E.

Question 69

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
emir

Question 70

In addition to being Islam's sacred book, the Koran

A) is composed, in part, of the Christian New Testament.
B) also provides the ethical foundation for life.
C) provides a systematized body of illegal tenets and theories of political procedures.
D) took oral shape before the writing of the Christian bible.
E) was written down by Muhammad's two sons.

Question 71

The Ka'aba

A) was a group of sacred stones revered by the Bedouin tribes, each of which possessed one.
B) was the shrine in Mecca containing a large black meteorite.
C) represented the monotheism of the Bedouins.
D) was Allah's representative Arab priesthood.
E) was the male initiation ceremony when one formally became an adult.

Question 72

Islam is

A) polytheistic.
B) monotheistic.
C) polyandrous.
D) divinistic.
E) secularist.

Question 73

Muhammad began the solitary meditations during which he received the revelations underlying Islam because of

A) a dispute with his wife.
B) his desire to expand his knowledge of the message of Allah.
C) the difficulties created in his mind by the corrupt and decadent society of his day.
D) the call of the angel Gabriel.
E) his desire to convert the people of Mecca to Islam.

Question 74

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Great Mosque of Samarra

Question 75

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Calligraphy

Question 76

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Ibn Battuta

Question 77

The council of elders of the Arabian Bedouin tribes was called the

A) majlis.
B) jihad.
C) sheikh.
D) Ka'aba.
E) iman.

Question 78

The ruling member of a Bedouin tribe was called the

A) majlis .
B) jihad .
C) sheikh .
D) Ka'aba .
E) imam .

Question 79

In 636, the Muslims defeated the ____ army at the Yarmuk River.

A) Mongol
B) Seljuk
C) Frankish
D) Persian
E) Byzantine

Question 80

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Abbasid Caliphate