History of islam final Flashcards
A struggle, that is, in the path of God, including a particular form of that struggle, called holy war
Jihad
A chapter of the quran
Sura
The flight of muhammad and his companions from mecca to yathrib/medina; the event which marks the founding of the first muslim community and the start of the muslim calendar
Hijra
The pre-islamic shrine at mecca, which muslim tradition associates with abraham
Ka’ba
one of the “people of the covenant of protection,” i.e., non-muslims living under the protection of muslim regimes
dhimmi
a call or summoning, used to refer to the missionary activity of various religio-political movements. The word used for evangelistic outreach in Islam
Da’Wa
The science of islamic jurisprudence
fiqh
literally “exertion” used by juristd to refer to the process of determining valid jufgments from the various sources of the law
ijtihad
The normative practice of the prophet in his companions, as known through the hadith.
Sunna
A head tax or poll, tax, to which non-Muslims living under Muslim rule, are normally subject.
Jizya
The word “Islam” essentially means
Surrender to the will of allah
Mohamed came to the conclusion that Allah was the one true God. The word Allah probably comes from.
Al illah
The official beginning of Islam was in ________ when muhammad Escaped the city of medina
622 AD
Which one of the following is not one of the five pillars of Islam?
Jihad, striving against the infidel
What are three other NON-Muslim texts that are considered by muslims to be inspired revelations from God
The Tauret; The Zabur; The Injil
The term used to describe Mohamed’s escape from an assassination plot, to the city of Medina is the _________
hijrah
Today, Muslims make up approximately what part of the world’s population
Between 1- 1.6Billion
True/False- in Islam, Jesus is considered to be a sinless prophet who was born of a virgin and performed many miracles
True
True/False: In Islam, parts of the Bible are accepted, and Jews and Christians are considered to be “people of the book”.
True
True or false: according to the revisionists or neo revisionists: in the early 700s, there was an amalgamation of Jewish and Christian influences
True
True/False: according to the revisionists or neo revisionists, Mohammed was perhaps a popular Magghazi leader, who is also a religious leader, and therefore considered a prophet
True
True/False: according to the revisionists or neo revisionists, mohammed bin Abdullah received revelations from God over a 23. year perion In the first half of the seventh century.
False
True/False: according to the revisionists or neo revisionists, the earliest form of the Quran was possibly derived from Christian, liturgy and Jewish commentary, at first in Syriac and other foreign languages
true
What are Muslims doing? When they recite “there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet”?
They are reciting the Shahada
according to the revisionists or neo revisionists, what two things can we ascertain about the samarqand and the topkapi manuscripts, two of the earliest Qur’anic manuscripts that we have?
- They are probably from the late 8th century, or over 150 years adfter Muhammad’s death
- They are written in kufic script
Which, Muslim leader, towards the end of the seventh century, may have been the most responsible for realizing the need to have a distinct religion, profit, and scripture in order to compete with the surrounding empires?
Abd al-Malik
True/False: It is true that John of Damascus called Mohamed a “false prophet” and said that Mohammed learned his false fuse regarding Christ from an Aryan priest.
True
True/False: It is true that John of Damascus called the Saracens “mutilators” because they tore apart the Trinity by believing that God spirit, and his word were created afterward
True
True/False: It is true that John of Damascus agreed with the Saracens, that the word of God, represented by the Caraun, was uncreated
False
True/False: It is true that John of Damascus stated that a law of the Muslims and Yahweh of the Jews and Christians was the same God
False
True/False: It is true that John of Damascus referred to the Ishmaelite beliefs as a heresy of Christianity, because they denied the deity of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity
True
What name did John of Damascus not use in reference to the followers of Mohammed?
Muslims
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: Both “prophets began as polygamists but became monogamists.
NO
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: Both put women on a lower level than men
YES
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: both rejected the Bible and said it was changed by men, corrupted, and unreliable
YES
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: both religions teach a works salvation
Yes
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: the founders of both religions claimed to be visited by Angels
yes
YES or NO: this is a statement is a “matching fingerprint” between Muslims and mormons: both claim that Jesus is the unique Son of God
NO
According to most linguistic scholars today, Arabic was probably developed from
Nabataean aramaic
From the fourth through the sixth centuries in number of Middle Eastern, languages began to be written for the first time. Arabic, as a written language was also probably developed late in this time. Archaeologically, what are the two most likely reasons for the formation of written Arabic at this time?
- written in Arabic was developed to aid in the governmental structures of the Byzantine rulers
- arabic was developed by Christian missionaries in order to help spread the gospel to the Arabs in their own language
True/ False: According to the Revisionists and the neo-Revisionists, the Qur’an…. Was originally an oral revelation given to the prophet Muhammad over a 23 year period And then was Crystalised in the written Quran in the time of Uthman, 20 years after Mohammed’s death.
False
True/ False: According to the Revisionists and the neo-Revisionists, the Qur’an…. Is used to explain the sira literature, and the hadith, and the Sira literature in the hadith are used in order to make sense of the Quran
True
True/ False: According to the Revisionists and the neo-Revisionists, the Qur’an…. Is probably a late compilation of a number of assorted literary and scriptural sources, and therefore, the canonization could not have taken place before the end of the second century AH or early in the third.
True
True/ False: According to the Revisionists and the neo-Revisionists, the Qur’an…. Seems to have grown out of sectarian controversies in the late eighth to early ninth centuries, almost 200 years after the fact, and then projected back onto an invented Arabian point of origin
True
YES/ NO: according to Neo-Revisionists; This account is accepted as a possible source for the Qur’an… IBN Ishaq’s Biography of Muhammad
YES
YES/ NO: according to Neo-Revisionists; This account is accepted as a possible source for the Qur’an.. Al-Bukhari’s collection of the Hadith literature
Yes
YES/ NO: according to Neo-Revisionists; This account is accepted as a possible source for the Qur’an… Reuven firestone’s explanation that the visitation stories of Abraham, visiting Ishmael and his wife is not only an evolution of the biblical story, but also an arabization of the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 21:21.
NO