Islam

Question 0

Ataon

Answer 0

Sharyar (ruler) married a different women every night and killed them in morning because they wouldn’t be faithful

Kept one girl because she proved her loyalty by telling him a story and not finishing the ending each night so he had kept her around to hear the ending

Question 1

Caliph

Answer 1

Successor to prophet

Head of the Muslim church

Question 2

2 more famous stories that are included in the legend?

Answer 2

Aladdin

Forty thieves

Question 3

People living in the middle of the peninsula versus the outside

Answer 3

The middle because it is desert are nomadic tribal herders

On the coast the people are merchants and traders

Question 4

570 most people followed what religion?

Answer 4

Polytheists- Pagans- hanifs

Question 5

Who were the hanifs?

Answer 5

Rejected old gods and worshipped a single dirty

• practiced solitary meditation
• not Jewish or CHRISTIAN

Question 6

What great religious experience happened to Mohammad in 610?

Answer 6

A vision of the angle jibreel who ordered him to teach the word of Allah, one God, to the Arabs

Question 7

Why was the new religion so unpopular in Mecca?

Answer 7

The rulers feared that both the pilgrimage and the merchants livelihood would be threatened because the pilgrims came to wishful at he sacred ka’bah

Question 8

Where did Mohammad and his followers flee to and when?

Answer 8

Medina in the year 622

Question 9

Hijrah

Answer 9

10 year exile

Meaning flight or migration

Question 10

Ka’bah

Answer 10

A stone building filled with many gods (shrine)

Question 11

Who led the Muslim kingdom after Muhammad died?

Answer 11

Abu Bakr his old friend

Question 12

Where is Jabal Tariq?

Answer 12

Guards the strait between Africa and Europe

Question 13

Significance of the Battle of Tours?

Answer 13

To overrun Spain and France

Question 14

Sunni

Answer 14

The way

Question 15

Qu’ron

Answer 15

Holy book of Islam

Question 16

Mosque

Answer 16

House of worship

Question 17

Bedoin

Answer 17

Arabic herders lived as nomads

Question 18

Berbers

Answer 18

North African people who converted to Islam

Question 19

Islam means?

Answer 19

Submission to the will of Allah

Question 20

Abrahamic means?

Answer 20

Belief in the same God as Jews and Christians
Strict monotheist
Origins in the Old Testament

Question 21

“People of the book”?

Answer 21

Christians Jews and Muslims

Question 22

Ancient relationship between Jews and Arabs?

Answer 22

Basically considered cousins; very closely related

Question 23

Year 1 A.H (622 CE) marks?

Answer 23

Beginning of the Muslim calendar

When Muhammad flees Mecca from Medina

Question 24

Where is the “Dome of the Rock”?

Answer 24

Jerusalem

Where Muhammad went to heaven

Question 25

5 pillars of Islam

Answer 25

1) monotheism
2) 5 prayers a day
3) giving to the poor
4) fasting during Ramadan
5) pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 26

Other Islamic practices

Answer 26

• up to four wives
• no alcohol or pork
• no gambling
• sharia

Question 27

Largest Muslim countries in the world today?

Answer 27

Indonesia
Pakistan
India

Question 28

Spread of Islam?

Answer 28

Easy to learn and practice
Portable
Teaches equality
Religious toleration

Question 29

Sharia

Answer 29

Body of Islamic laws to regulate daily living