Islam Quiz Flashcards
The Sunni/shi’ites split resulted from a disagreement over
Who should succeed Muhammad
The word Islam means submission and refers to muslim’s obligation
To submit to the will of God in all life
Between 636 and 639 CE, the Muslims wretched both Syria and Egypt from?
The Byzantine empire
The mamluks were
Turkic mercenaries and slaves in the Abbasid Caliphate who rose to control powerful Muslim states
the silk road flourished under mongol rule because
the mongols controlled all parts of the silk road, which allowed for a relatively easy exchange
the group in control of jerusalem at the time of the crusades
seljuk turks
by the early 700s, the islamic empire stretched from
spain to india
one of the major problems the Abbasid caliphs faced
frontier revolts that they were slow to reach
one of the benefits of the size of the mongol empire was that
it promoted the movement of poeple, ideas, and goods
what is nit a characteristic of islam
a tradition of passing down the central teachings of their faith orally
cities were important in islam for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
they were the only places women could travel freely
the Arabic Peninsula is characterized by
coastal cities and agricultural villages close to sources of water and a large empty quarter in the central areas
the universal language of the muslim empire was
Arabic, because it was the language of the Quran
The muslims who supported the first 3 caliphs came to be called the “people of tradition and community” or
Sunnis
which of the following is true of the Umayyad Caliphate?
They ruled over an ethnically defined Arab realm more than an Islamic empire
the mongols
spread the bubonic plague through the overland trade routes into Europe
Adherence to the five pillars of Islam is the foundation of Muslim faith. Which one was the first and most important one upon which all the other ones are based
Acknowledgment of Allah as the only deity and Muhammad as his prophet
a hereditary slave society never developed in the Islamic world because
Slaves usually converted to Islam, often causing their masters to free them, and then offspring of slave women and Muslim men were free
in what order did these 3 monotheistic religions come into being?
judasim, christianity, Islam
what did the mongols do when they encountered other religions?
they encouraged tolerance and occasionally converted
In medin, Muhammad can his followers formed a community of believers in Islam and in Muhammad as the “messenger of God”. The community was called?
Umma
