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Understanding Islam and Muslim Identity

This quiz tests knowledge about the concepts, beliefs, and terminology related to Islam and Muslim identity.

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1 ________ — concealer of the truth (non-Muslims)

2 Most Muslims accept as a Muslim anyone who has publicly pronounced the ________ (declaration of faith) which states,

3 For another term in Islam for a non-Muslim who is a monotheist believer (usually applied historically in a pre-Islamic context), see ________.

4 The ________[10] more specifically declared that a Muslim is one who adheres to one of the eight schools of Islamic legal thought.

5 Muslim is the participle of the same verb of which Islam is the ________.

6 "I bear witness there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and I bear witness, ________ is His final messenger".

7 Literally, the word means "one who submits (to ________)".

8 [1] The ________ form is sometimes used as Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة‎), especially in recent years.

9 Muslims believe that there is only one God, translated in Arabic as ________.

10 The Qur'an describes many Biblical prophets and messengers as Muslim: Adam, ________ (Arabic: Nuh), Moses and Jesus and his apostles.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • on January 21, 2006 Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism.
  • the 1510 conquest of Goa by the Portuguese Governor Albuquerque was accomplished with the help of the Hindus against a Muslim army.
  • the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil, near Jerusalem, is regarded by Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel.
  • the capture of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire from the Spanish Empire in 1574 decided that North Africa would be under Muslim rather than Christian rule.
  • 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.
  • in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks.
  • in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the Republic of Pisa launched a crusade against the Muslim Balearic Islands.
  • in Persia, non-Muslims were considered to be najis (ritually unclean) by Shi'a Muslims, and were not allowed to go outside in rain or snow for fear that some impurity could be washed from them onto a Muslim.
  • in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy MillatFacebook was founded to cater primarily to Muslims.
  • the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K..
  • the Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China.
  • through Khitan, the Islamic rite of male circumcision, Muslims are the largest single religious group to circumcise males.
  • today, most Butts are Muslims, although some practice Hinduism or Christianity.
  • the earliest commentary on a part of Maimonides' transforming work of Jewish philosophy, The Guide for the Perplexed, was written by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Tabrizi, a Persian Muslim.
  • the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance.
  • the Urdu movement, which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India, emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement.
  • the khutbah is the sermon delivered before the Muslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annual Muslim festivals.
  • the annual Global Peace and Unity conference held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London is the largest Muslim event in Europe.
  • both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem.
  • artifacts uncovered in Kafr Misr, an Arab village located to the south of Mount Tabor, Israel, attest to Jewish, Christian and Muslim habitation over the centuries.
  • Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu, Muslim and Christian schools.
  • Fatma Aliye Topuz, whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer.
  • Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia.
  • Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, by planning his escape from a mental hospital.
  • Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717.
  • City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas.
  • Muslim scholar Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan.
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani, an expert of South Asian archaeology and Ancient history, was the first Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University.
  • Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin.
  • Jogendra Nath Mandal was a Hindu politician who served as the first Minister for Law and Labour of the Muslim state of Pakistan.
  • Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor.
  • after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a pir.
  • although 99.8% of the population is Muslim, there is no official religion in Turkey.
  • Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947.
  • Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
  • Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere.
  • Muzzammil Hassan is the CEO of Bridges TV, the first American Muslim television network to broadcast in English.
  • Robert Satloff researched the involvement of Muslims and Arabs both as rescuers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in the course of the Axis occupation of North Africa.
  • 11th century Muslim Al-Andalusian poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi dressed in public in the fashion of the harems of Baghdad, without a customary hijab.
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