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Islam
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
03/23/2011

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What does "Islam" mean?
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Submission to God's Will
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Muhammad is believed by Muslims to be descended from Abraham through Abraham’s son:
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Ishmael
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When Muhammad was told by the angel Gabriel in the cave of Hira that he was a prophet of God, Muhammad was frightened by the event and he was later comforted by:
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His wife, Khadija
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Muslims believe the Qur’an is:
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God's revealed word
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The Qur’an came into being:
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As revelation during Muhammad's 22 years as Prophet
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The Islamic lunar calendar uses this event as the starting point for measuring time since the rise of Islam:
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Muhammad's move from Mecca to Medina
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The core beliefs of Islam include all of the following except:
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belief in converting others to Islam
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Muslims believe in the Unseen world, which includes all but the following:
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ghosts
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The Muslim form of fasting involves:
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abstaining from all food and drink from dawn until dusk
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Muslims pay an annual tax to help the poor and needy of about:
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2.5% of surplus wealth
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Jihad is often viewed as the basis for terrorism. However, Islamic law considers terrorism to be:
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a crime of wanton violence
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The pilgrimage to Mecca made by Muslims involves:
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recalling the struggles of Abrahim and his family
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Islam teaches all of the following except:
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Jesus was the son of God
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Some Muslims believe a messianic figure will restore justice and peace at the end of time. He is known as the:
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imam & mahdi
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The Qur’an prohibits Muslims from eating:
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pork
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The spread of Islam led to the end of certain pre-Islamic Arab practices such as:
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all of the above: usury, female infanticide, tribes raiding each other
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According to Islamic law, drinking alcohol is:
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forbidden as sinful
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In Islam, sexual relations are allowed:
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between individuals married to each other
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Islam’s view of sin is:
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everyone is born sinless and might commit sins later in life that require repentance
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The following companions/followers of Muhammad who became his successors were believed to be rightly guided by the majority of Muslims (later known as Sunnis), except:
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Muawiya
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The supporters of Ali (Shiat Ali) were devastated when in 680 CE his son Husayn was massacred at:
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Karbala (Iraq)
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The Qur’an calls Christians and Jews:
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People of the Book
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The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty, and claimed closeness to Muhammad as:
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descendants of his uncle
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The capital of the Abbasid dynasty was established in 762 CE at:
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Baghdad (Iraq)
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The research and translation center founded around 840 CE was called:
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Bayt Al-Hikmah
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The Shari’ah (Islamic law) is intended to promote and preserve every individual’s rights to the following, except:
Definition
healthcare
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Books of Shari’ah are typically divided into these two broad sections:
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Rules pertaining to relations between humans and God, and rules regarding relations among human beings
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In order to derive the rulings of Shari’ah, Muslim scholars used the following type of reasoning in addition to interpreting the texts of the Qur’an and the Sunnah:
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analogy
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The intellectual effort or struggle of Muslim scholars to discover what God’s law might be is known as:
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ijtihad
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The following were major topics of theological debate among early Muslim scholars, except:
Definition
whether men or women are excluded from the Day of Judgement
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Unlike Twelver/Imami Shi’is, the Fiver Shi’is (Zaydis) and Sevener Shi’is (Ismailis) believe:
Definition
The line of imams descended from Ali continues to the present day, so that there is a living imam
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The Arabic word for Sufism, tasawwuf, probably is a reference to this cloth worn by early spiritual mystics:
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wool
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Sufism emphasizes the personal cultivation of the following characteristics, except:
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abstinence from sexual relations
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Those Muslims who have become known for their spiritual mastery are known as awliya, meaning:
Definition
friends of God
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Sunni Islam crystallized in the early 900s around the hadith collections and writings of the law schools combined with the theological ideas of the
Definition
Ashari
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Sufis emphasize the jihad al-nafs, the “greater jihad” (than fighting) that is also called jihad of:
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the self
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By the 12th century, to cultivate their spiritual growth, Muslims typically joined sufi brotherhoods/ orders, known as:
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tariqa
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A famous of sufi saint or master who wrote the Mathnawi and died in 1273 Ce.
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Rumi
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According to twelver Shi’is, the awaited Mahdi is none other than:
Definition
the Hidden Imam
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In Islamic law, something lawful is designated as:
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halaal
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(T/F) Among Shi’is, the teachings of the Imams can also be a source of Islamic Law.
Definition
True
Term
(T/F) Early scholars tried to take local custom into consideration when developing legal rulings.
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True
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(T/F) In Islamic law, scholars are supposed to consider public benefit when deciding on an issue.
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True
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(T/F)“Innocent until proven guilty” is an Islamic legal principle.
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True
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When deciding on cases of criminal law, Islamic jurists should be:
Definition
as lenient as possible
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Among Sunnis, how many legal schools survived until the present day?
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four
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(T/F) Sufism stresses the importance of being attached to material possessions.
Definition
False
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Sufis emphasize experiencing the world through:
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the heart
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The Sufi idea that one can be “annihilated” into God (union with the Divine):
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fana
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(T/F) Sufis would agree with the phrase “be in the world, but not of it.”
Definition
True
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