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55 Cards in this Set
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What caused the split between Shiite and Sunni Muslims?
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disagreement over who the caliph ought to be
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Muslim trading was:
* forbidden * mostly unsuccessful * quite extensive * strictly controlled by the Imama |
quite extensive
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What was the main result of the Muslim invasion of India?
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the sultans introduced Muslim traditions of government to India
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This religion blends Muslim and Hindu beliefs...
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Sikhism
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The Muslim tradition of the Sharia was shared by these 2 empires located in central Asia and western Asia
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Ottoman and Safavid
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Before he became a prophet, Muhammad's job was that of a...
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a merchant
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This religion blends Muslim and Hindu beliefs...
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Sikhism
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The 5 pillars of Islam...
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Daily prayer
Pilgrimage to Mecca Charity Declaration of faith in Allah Fasting during holy month |
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What is Avicenna best known for?
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Compiling a medical encyclopedia
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Which event led to the creation of a Muslim empire in India?
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A Delhi sultanate was established
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Who strengthened the Mughal empire by promoting religious harmony through tolerance?
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Akbar
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Ottoman and Safavid artists were influenced by these styles.....
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Persian styles
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Which Arab did the Angel Gabriel instruct to "proclaim in the name of your God....."
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Muhammad
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A dispute over the successor to Muhammad led to the creation of these two Muslim sects....
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Sunni Muslim and Shiite Muslim
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Who is the current Supreme Court Chief justice......
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John Roberts
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In which century did the Islamic religion emerge...
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7th century
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Muhammad's wife?
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Khadija
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The nomadic tribe of Arabs who dominated the peninsula in the 6th and 7th centuries....
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Bedouins
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The original name of the city of Medina....
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Yathrib
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What was the "hijra"?
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Muhammad's original journey to Yathrib.
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About how long did Muhammad live after starting the Islamic religion?
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About 10 years
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The Islamic name for God...
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Allah
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The word "Islam" means this in Arabic...
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submission or surrender to God
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The difference between "hajj" and "hijra"....
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hijra refers to Muhammad's first journey to Medina....the hajj refers to the pigrimage to Mecca that is expected of all Muslims
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This is the Islamic system of law....
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The Sharia
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The Quran permitted a man to have these many wives (if he treated them all fairly)...
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Four (good grief!)
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Multiply the number of pillars in the Islamic faith, times the number of wives the Quran says a man can have and add the product to the year Muhammad heard from Gabriel, and the total is....
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(5 x 4) + 622= 642
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The most significant Muslim invasion into Europe was in this Iberian country.....
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Espana
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True/False...Muslims conquered the Byzantine Empire...
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True
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Which Muslim leader had the Taj Mahal built?
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Shah Jahan
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True/False...Muslims invaded North Africa...
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True
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A reason for Muslim military success in the Fertile Crescent was cavalry that included these 2 animals...
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horses and camels
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The key reason for Arab success in their rapid conquest of the Fertile Crescent...
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the common faith of Islam unified the various tribes
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Many people conquered by Arab Muslims converted to Islam because of this feature of the religion....
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no religious hierarchy or the simplicity of the religion
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The Spanish used this term in referring to the invading Muslims....
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Moors
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The Muslims actually invaded and controlled this Italian island...
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Sicily
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The Taj mahal was built to honor this person....
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Shah Jahan's wife
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Which sect of Muslims believed the caliph should be chosen by the community?
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The Sunni Muslims
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The Shiite Muslims believe the only true successors to the Prophet must be descendants of Muhammad's_______and ________
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daughter (Fatima) her husband (Ali)
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Which sect of Muslims makes up 90 percent of today's Muslims?
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Sunni
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Name the dynasty that ruled the Islamic world until 750 and directed the spectacular conquests from the Atlantic to to India....
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the Umayyads
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Which dynasty replace the Umayyads and dominated the Muslim world until the mid-1200's
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the Abbassid dynasty
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Which city (now in Iraq) became the Muslim "City of Peace"?
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Baghdad
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What's the name of those slender towers that protrude above the mosques?
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minarets
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Name the Turks who were responsible for triggering the Crusades....
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Seljuks
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Which of Shah Jahan's relatives put him in prison and killed?
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his son
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The Crusades had a larger impact on the Christians or the Muslims....
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the Christians
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True/False....Tamerlane was a Sunni caliph who translated the Quran into Indian and led the Seljuk Mongols in victory over the Moorish Mughals.
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False...a Mongol leader who adopted the Islamic faith.
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al-Khwarizmi was the greatest Muslim _________________
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mathematician
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al-Razi was:
a poet a physician a politician an Irish clog-dancer |
a physician
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Who was the Muslim physician who wrote the medical encyclopedia titled "Canon on Medicine"
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Ibn Sina (known in Europe as Avicenna)
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Muslim invader of India had 2 advantages over their Hindu opponents...one was a faster moving cavalry, the other was...
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Hindu princes were busy fighting among themselves and did not present a united front against the Muslims
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True/False...The Muslim and Hindu cultures were almost identical
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FALSE
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Between Islam and Hinduism, which is the older religion?
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Hinduism
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Who was the chief builder of the Mughal Empire?
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Akbar the Great
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