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Understanding Islam: A Quiz on Key Concepts and Historical Context

This quiz tests your knowledge of key concepts, historical events, and figures in Islam, providing an engaging way to learn about this major world religion.

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1 Advance, ________. http://advance.uconn.edu/2003/031117/03111715.htm.

2 Groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and ________ in Pakistan advocate a totalistic and theocratic alternative to secular political ideologies.

3 Following this, Mu'awiyah, who was governor of Levant, seized power and began the ________.

4 ________-12-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4385768.stm. Retrieved 2006-09-28.

5 The Ottoman era came to a close at the end of ________.

6 The science of Qur'anic commentary and exegesis is known as ________.

7 Islamic holy days fall on fixed dates of the lunar calendar, which means that they occur in different seasons in different years in the ________.

8 His death in 634 resulted in the succession of Umar as the caliph, followed by ________ and Ali ibn Abi Talib.

9 Others added their support and Abu Bakr was made the first ________.

10 From the 11th century onwards a series of wars known as the Crusades brought the Muslim world into conflict with ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities.
  • the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire.
  • the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415.
  • the French orientalist painter Étienne Dinet (pictured) was so fascinated by Arab culture that he converted to Islam.
  • the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions.
  • in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali.
  • in the Islamic tradition, Bahira (pictured) was a Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career.
  • it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam.
  • the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam and the Fulani ethnic group across northern Cameroon.
  • the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu Khan, executed Al-Musta'sim, the Abbasid caliph of the Islamic state, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad.
  • the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state.
  • the Mourning of Muharram, observed by Shi'a Muslims, commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
  • the symbol of Fatima's hands, while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam.
  • the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members.
  • the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia, will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains.
  • the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur.
  • the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K..
  • in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery.
  • during the captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam, 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan.
  • Jacob's Well (pictured) in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition.
  • Maryam Jameelah, a New York-born convert from Judaism to Islam, became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam.
  • Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
  • Ismael Urbain was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century French Algeria and adviser to Napoleon III due to his strong knowledge of Islam.
  • Hauz Khas Complex in South Delhi encompasses a water tank, an Islamic seminary, a mosque, a tomb and pavilions built around a medieval village in the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate reign.
  • Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam.
  • Amar Ouzegane, first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism, arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism.
  • Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam.
  • Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance.
  • a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders.
  • an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor.
  • before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s.
  • Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists.
  • Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times.
  • shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude.
  • Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam.
  • Georgia’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122.
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