Test 7

Question 1

Samuel Huntington

Answer 1

Thesis: Clash of Civiliazations

Question 2

dar al-islam

Answer 2

House of Submission

Question 3

dar al-harb

Answer 3

House of War

Question 4

Foundation of Islam

Answer 4

Based on Submission

Question 5

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Answer 5

Playwriter “Nathan the Wise”

Question 6

St-Just

Answer 6

Leading Revolutionary during French Revolution

“republic is constituted by the total destruction of that which is opposed to it.”

Question 7

Michael Foucault

Answer 7

Wrote “histories” on sexuality
Deconstructed the family
Demonstrated the family as an instrument for male domination.

Question 8

Edward Said

Answer 8

Relatvist
Wrote “Orientalism”
Devoted to perpetuating the view of Western civilization as inherently superior to its rivals.
We should be open to all cultures and claim none

Question 9

Al-Farabi

Answer 9

Described Plato as lawgiver, prophet, and imam to his country.
Emphasized the distinction between reason and revelation

Question 10

Ibn Knaldun

Answer 10

14th century Tunisian polymath
Societies are held together by cohesive force
Secular theory of society that dwelt on political unity rather than political order

Question 11

Mohammed Ata

Answer 11

Left Egypt for Hamburg
Studies Architecture
Led the attack on the WTC

Question 12

Ataturk

Answer 12

created a national loyalty, territorial jurisdiction, and a form of constitutional govt.

Question 13

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

Answer 13

Founder of the Wahhabist movement

Question 14

Hassan al-Banna

Answer 14

Founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928

Believed jihad was needed to expel infidels from Muslim soil.

Question 15

Sayyed Qutb

Answer 15

Secret leader of Muslim brotherhood after it was outlawed

Preached the impossibility of compromise

Question 16

Khomeini

Answer 16

Killing infidels/stopping their corruption will be doing them a service.
Made martydom a central part of his strategy

Question 17

Manuel II Paleologus

Answer 17

Bryzantine Emperor

Set dialogue with an educated Persian on the structures of faith contained in the Bible and the Q’uran.

Question 18

Adolf von Harnack

Answer 18

Representative of the second stage of Dehellenization

Stated that theology is something essentially historical and therefore strictly scientific.

Question 19

Charles Taylor

Answer 19

Canadian philosopher

Question 20

Seymour Martin Lipset

Answer 20

American identity was always political in nature and was powerfully influenced by the fact that the US was born from a revolution against state authority.

Question 21

Amartya Sen

Answer 21

“Plural Monculturalism”

Question 22

Antonio Gramsei

Answer 22

20th century Marxist and politician

Argued that societies have been dominated by the privelaged

Question 23

Alexis de Tocqueville

Answer 23

Formed the basis for the primary defense of Gramscian Arguments
Celebrates the traits of American Exceptionalism

Question 24

Carl Gilligan

Answer 24

Harvard Education Professor

Persuaded congress to support the Gender Equality in Education Act

Question 25

Mao Tse-tung

Answer 25

“On the protracted War”

Deals with the ambiguity of war and peace.