Chapter 8- Rise Of Islam 600-1200

Question 1

In what region was the Sassanid Empire? Page 197

Answer 1

The Arabian Peninsula

Question 2

What will they shine is located in Mika? According to the stores connected with it, who built the shrine and what happened near the site? Page 198

Answer 2

Ka’ba and a well called Zamzam, idols, and a precinct surrounding those two things

Question 3

Who/what was revealed to Muhammad? Page 199/200

Answer 3

The angel Gabriel

Question 4

Muhammad’s teachings seem to be in an agreement with what religions? Page 201

Answer 4

Christianity and Judaism

Question 5

What was Muhammad’s flight to Medina called? Page 201

Answer 5

Hijra

Question 6

What do the supremacy of Median state depend on? Page 201

Answer 6

Common faith in a single god

Question 7

Who is Muhammad’s successor and what was his title? Page 201

Answer 7

Abu Bakr and called khalifa or caliph

Question 8

List the five pillars of Islam. Page 201

Answer 8

1. Declare that there is only one god and Muhammad is his messenger
2. Pray five times a day
3. Fasting during lunar month of Ramadan
4. Pay alms
5. Make pilgrimage to Mecca at least once-in-a-lifetime

Question 9

What is the Qu’ran? Page 201-2

Answer 9

A collection of Muhammad’s revelations written by his secretaries after his death

Question 10

Why was the Battle of Camel fought? Page 202

Answer 10

In 656, because two of Muhammad’s companions and his wife A’isha challenged his fourth successor

Question 11

What happened as a result of Husayn’s death? Page 202

Answer 11

The beginning of the sect of Shi’ism

Question 12

Who are the Ahl al-Sunna wa’l-Jama’s, or Sunni for short? Page 202

Answer 12

A group of move them to favorite electing any legible Muslim is caliph rather than just Ali’s descendants

Question 13

List five region/countries conquered by Muslim caliphs. Page 202-3

Answer 13

1. Spain
2. Syria
3. Iraq
4. Iran
5. Egypt

Question 14

What caused the unrest that led to the fall of the Umayyad caliphate? Page 203

Answer 14

Non-Arab Muslims who demanded access to political power

Question 15

Why was the Abassid period called a “golden age”? Page 204

Answer 15

It created a refinement cosmopolitan culture in Baghdad

Question 16

Why did he Abassid caliphate decline in power? Page 204

Answer 16

The empire became too big to rule effectively

Question 17

After failing to reform the government and military, the Abassid Caliphate fell under the influence of home? Page 205

Answer 17

Buyid family of N Iran

Question 18

What cultures blended together in Umayyad Spain? Page 206

Answer 18

Roman, Arab, Berber, and Germanic traditions

Question 19

Who was Maimonides and what did he do? Page 206

Answer 19

Did you wish philosopher, I was also called Rambam, he

Question 20

Who were the ulama? Page 207

Answer 20

Arabic for “people with religious knowledge” and is social group of religious scholars

Question 21

Describe the change and economy, government involvement religious matters, population during the reign of the Seljuk Turks. Page 207

Answer 21

Pop. = Cities shrunk

Question 22

Who recaptured Jerusalem from European Crusaders and when? Page 208

Answer 22

Saladin in 1187

Question 23

What did the hadith deal with? And what was the problem with it? Page 209

Answer 23

Thousands of reports collected to understand the sunna and convey precise words or deeds of Muhammad. Some reports were genuine but others were invented (political motivation).

Question 24

The Shari’a embodied a vision of what? Page 209

Answer 24

An umma in which all people had the same moral value.

Question 25

Why did converts to Islam face discrimination if they remained in their Christian, Jewish, or Zoroastrian communities? And how could they avert discrimination? Page 210

Answer 25

Religion was main component in social identity and migration to avert it

Question 26

How did urban growth help the countryside? What were some of the main crops grown? Page 210

Answer 26

It expanded consumer market. Crops are citrus, sugar cane, rice, and fruits

Question 27

What help facilitate long-distance trade and integrate rural areas into the economy? Page 210

Answer 27

Abundant coinage

Question 28

Who influenced Muslim science and technology? And what were three major scientific advancements of Ibn al-Haytham? Page 210

Answer 28

1. Determined where Milky Way lies in atm.
2. Proved light travels from seen object to eye and not reverse
3. Explained why sun + moon appear larger on horizon than overhead

Question 29

Describe four aspects of the life of urban women. Page 210

Answer 29

1. They did not travel
2. Lived in seclusion and did not leave house w/o covering self
3. Public roles barred, home lives influential roles
4. Only slave women could dance or play/sing in front of unrelated men

Question 30

What are Sufis and what was a common doctrine of Sufism? Page 214-5

Answer 30

Mystic group of brotherhood

Question 31

What was the division in the Islamic communityabout and who are the groups involved? Page 197

Answer 31

It was about who should lead and the two groups involves were the Shiites and the Sunnis

Question 32

Mamluks

Answer 32

Turkish slaves

Question 33

Ulama

Answer 33

A group of religious scholars