The Origins Of Islamic Culture

Question 0

What part of Europe fell under Muslim control for the next 600 years?

Answer 0

Western Mediterranean

Question 1

Who led the first Muslim kingdom following the death of Mohammad?

Answer 1

Abu Bakr

Question 2

Where is Jabal Tariq?

Answer 2

Between Africa and Europe

Question 3

What was the significance of the Battle of Tours?

Answer 3

Stopped the spreading of Islam and let Christianity flourish

Question 4

What does the word “Sunni” mean?

Answer 4

The way

Question 5

What is the belief of the Shi’a sect of Islam concerning who should be a Caliph?

Answer 5

For sole spiritual and secular authority

Question 6

What percentage of the worlds Muslims identify themselves as Shiite?

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

Hijrah

Answer 7

Flight or migration

Question 8

Qur’on

Answer 8

Holy book of Islam

Question 9

Jihad

Answer 9

Struggle to defend the faith

Question 10

Mosque

Answer 10

Place of worship

Question 11

Caliph

Answer 11

Successor to the prophet

Question 12

Imam

Answer 12

Ali’s successors

Question 13

Mohammad

Answer 13

The prophet of Islam

Question 14

Khadija

Answer 14

Wife of Muhammad, first person to convert to Islam

Question 15

Abu Bakr

Answer 15

Successor of Mohammad, his oldest friend and one of his early converts

Question 16

Mohammad Ali

Answer 16

Caliph

Question 17

Moors

Answer 17

Muslims of Spain

Question 18

Bedoin

Answer 18

Arabic herders

Question 19

Berbers

Answer 19

North African people

Question 20

Where and when was Mohammad born?

Answer 20

Mecca and 570

Question 21

In 570, most Arabs followed what religion?

Answer 21

Polytheistic, Pagean (hanifs)

Question 22

Ka’bah

Answer 22

A stone building filled with the statues of many gods. Holiest shrine of Islam

Question 23

Who were the hanifs?

Answer 23

Arabs who rejected old gods and worshipped a single deity, were neither Jewish nor Christian

Question 24

What great religious experience occurred in Mohammad's life around 610?

Answer 24

A vision identified as the angel Gabriel (Jibreel) ordering him to teach the word of Allah, or the one God, to the Arabs

Question 25

Why was Mohammad's new religion so unpopular in Mecca?

Answer 25

The rulers feared it would threaten both the pilgrimage and the merchants livelihood

Question 26

Compare and contrast the people's living on the Arabian Peninsula during the Early Middle Ages

Answer 26

In the desert, the people were nomadic tribal herdsman and on the coast the people were merchants and tradesman, more sophisticated

Question 27

Where were Mohammad and his followers forced to flee and for how long?

Answer 27

Yathrib and 10 years