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20 Cards in this Set
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Islam means
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submission
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Bedouins were
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Arab camel nomads
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What was the basic social group of the bedouins?
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kin-related clan groups
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Shaykhs
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leaders of bedouin clans
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What clan was responsible for the foundation of Mecca?
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Umayyad
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The religious shrine that was the focus of an annual truce in pre- Islamic Mecca was the
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Ka'ba
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Who ruled Medina prior to Muhammad's flight there?
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Several Jews and bedouin clans
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Prior to muhammad's revelations, the relgion of the bedoui was
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a mixture of animism and polytheism
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What was the date of Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medin
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622 CE
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Which of the following statements about Muhammad's flight to Medina is not correct?
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Muhammad fled from Mecca with nearly one warter of the city's population
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The Islamic umma was
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the concept of community of the faithful the transcended clan boundaries
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The religious practices that are incumbent on all Muslims are refferred to as the
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Five pillars of faith
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The responsibility of all Muslims to make a pilgrimage to Mecca is called the
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hajj
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The Ridda wars were fought
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to suppress rival prophets and to restore the unity of Islam.
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Which of the following statements concerning the resistance of the Byzatnine Empire to Islamic attacks is most accurate?
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The Byzantine Empire was more resilient thatn the Sassanian Empire, but still suffered the loss of Egypt,Syria, and Palestine to the Arabs.
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The theological and ploitical faction that supported the Umayyad concept of succession within Islam were the
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Sunnis
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What was the nature of citizenship with in the Umayyad Empire
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Only Muslim Arabs were first class citizens
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Inlike the Umayyad Empire, the abbasid
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Admitted the mawali as full members of the Islamic community
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During the Abbasid Period, the status of women in Islamic communities
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Declined in part as a result of the growing cultural influence of the conquered populations such as the Persians
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During the Abbasid period slavery
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was typical of unskilled occupations in the countryside and the cities
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