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| Muhammad is believed by Muslims to be descended from Abraham through Abraham’s son: |
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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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| Muslims believe the Qur’an is: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| The Qur’an prohibits Muslims from eating: |
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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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| In Islam, sexual relations are allowed: |
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| between individuals married to each other |
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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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| The supporters of Ali (Shiat Ali) were devastated when in 680 CE his son Husayn was massacred at: |
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| The Qur’an calls Christians and Jews: |
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| The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty, and claimed closeness to Muhammad as: |
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| The capital of the Abbasid dynasty was established in 762 CE at: |
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| The research and translation center founded around 840 CE was called: |
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| The Shari’ah (Islamic law) is intended to promote and preserve every individual’s rights to the following, except: |
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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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| The intellectual effort or struggle of Muslim scholars to discover what God’s law might be is known as: |
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| The following were major topics of theological debate among early Muslim scholars, except: |
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| 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: |
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| 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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| 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: |
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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 |
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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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| By the 12th century, to cultivate their spiritual growth, Muslims typically joined sufi brotherhoods/ orders, known as: |
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| A famous of sufi saint or master who wrote the Mathnawi and died in 1273 Ce. |
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| According to twelver Shi’is, the awaited Mahdi is none other than: |
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| In Islamic law, something lawful is designated as: |
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| (T/F) Among Shi’is, the teachings of the Imams can also be a source of Islamic Law. |
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| (T/F) Early scholars tried to take local custom into consideration when developing legal rulings. |
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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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| (T/F)“Innocent until proven guilty” is an Islamic legal principle. |
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| When deciding on cases of criminal law, Islamic jurists should be: |
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| Among Sunnis, how many legal schools survived until the present day? |
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| (T/F) Sufism stresses the importance of being attached to material possessions. |
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| Sufis emphasize experiencing the world through: |
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| The Sufi idea that one can be “annihilated” into God (union with the Divine): |
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| (T/F) Sufis would agree with the phrase “be in the world, but not of it.” |
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