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| 7188115271 | Umma | The community of believers in Islam, which transcends ethnic and political boundaries | 0 | |
| 7188116127 | dar al-Islam | The literal meaning of the Arabic words is "the abode of Islam." The term refers to the land of Islam, that is, the territories in which Islam and its religious laws (shari'a) may be freely practiced. Also, sometimes, dar as-Salam, "the abode of peace." | 1 | |
| 7188118076 | Hijra | The "migration" or flight of Muhammad from Mecca, where his life was in danger, to Medina (then called Yathrib), potential leader in 622 AD. The Islamic era (A. H.: After Hijra) is calculated from this date | 2 | |
| 7188119413 | Caliph | The spiritual head and temporal ruler of the Muslim community | 3 | |
| 7188120091 | Imam | In Islam, a title for a person whose leadership or example is to be followed | 4 | |
| 7188120529 | Mahdi | According to Islamic tradition, a messianic leader will appear to restore justice, truth, and religion for a brief period before the Day of Judgment | 5 | |
| 7188121254 | Sufi | In Islam, a member of one of the orders practicing mystical forms of worship that first arose in the eighth and ninth centuries AD | 6 | |
| 7188122208 | Tariqa | In Islam a generic term meaning "path" referring to the doctrines and methods of mysticism and esoterism. The word also refers to schools or brotherhoods of mystics, which were often situated at a mosque or the tomb of a Muslim saint | 7 | |
| 7188124618 | Heliocentric | A system in which the sun is assumed to be at the center of the solar system, or of the universe while earth and the planets move around it | 8 | |
| 7188126767 | Hadith | Traditional records of the deeds and utterances of the prophet Muhammad, and the basis, after the Quran, for Islamic theology and law | 9 | |
| 7188127675 | Ijtihad | A method of Quranic interpretation based on text, local custom, and personal judgment of the wadi, or judge | 10 | |
| 7188128472 | Ulama | The theologians and legal experts of Islam | 11 | |
| 8233680814 | The Quran promises a reward in paradise to those who: | observe Islam faithfully | 12 | |
| 8233688838 | Muslims believe that the most recent prophet was: | Muhammad | 13 | |
| 8233704209 | Muslims consider the Quran to be a poetic version of God's word, that can be translated and understood differently in different cultures. | False | 14 | |
| 8233709084 | Shari'a | requires a husband to take care of his children | 15 | |
| 8233723416 | Islam | believes God transmitted the truth to Muslims through the angel Gabriel | 16 | |
| 8233741157 | Which of the following has NOT added to the problems of studying Islamic history? | commercial and governmental documents of Islamic societies | 17 | |
| 8233784224 | Muslims begin their calendar with this event: | the date Muhammad moved to Medina | 18 | |
| 8233816563 | Which of the following occurred first? | the Muslims conquer Mecca | 19 | |
| 8233824952 | Of the following, which is NOT one of the five pillars of Islam? | observing a day of rest one day a week | 20 | |
| 8233876442 | Which city was not used by the Umayyad caliphs to build mosques during their demonstration of imperial power? | Bethlehem | 21 | |
| 8233882771 | Abu Bakr: | was the first caliph | 22 | |
| 8233886683 | Mu'awiya | was the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty | 23 | |
| 8233896370 | Which of the following regions had NOT yet been conquered by Islam in 650 AD? | Spain | 24 | |
| 8233904107 | The campaigns of Gengis Khan extended as far west as: | the Caucasus Mountains | 25 | |
| 8233934334 | Of the following, which was the least important motivating factor behind the military expansion of the Islamic Empire? | religious goals | 26 | |
| 8233938004 | The Shi'as | though that descendants of Ali should be imam | 27 | |
| 8233946072 | The Abbasid caliphate: | sought to convert non-Muslims to Islam | 28 | |
| 8233963568 | Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali | saw intellect as one stage of human development | 29 | |
| 8234034161 | Ibn Khaldun held all of the following views, except: | scholars are often the wisest rulers | 30 | |
| 8234167644 | Sufis | seek the mystical path of God | 31 | |
| 8234174091 | The Mutazilites held all of the following views, except: | human actions are pre-determined | 32 | |
| 8234235207 | Sufis were less likely than ulama to emphasize strict religious doctrine. | True | 33 | |
| 8234242338 | Baghdad was: | built by the Abbasid dynasty | 34 | |
| 8234248358 | Rumi | thought it was possible to grow closer to God through dance | 35 | |
| 8234259214 | Most of the major agricultural exchanges that helped the Islamic world came from: | India | 36 | |
| 8234264194 | Muslims repudiated the classical works of Greece and India. | False | 37 | |
| 8234269408 | Use of the decimal system and the zero was first developed by the: | Indians | 38 | |
| 8234288214 | Which of the following regions is primarily identified with the Indian subcontinent? | Hinduism | 39 | |
| 8234299980 | The reconquista of Spain by the Christians was largely complete by the twelfth century. | False | 40 | |
| 8234306340 | Which of these cities was NOT used as a regional capital in west during the caliphate's decline? | Nishapur | 41 | |
| 8234313269 | The crusades: | initially went well for the Christians | 42 | |
| 8234317580 | Muslim rule in Spain: | revitalized trade in the western Mediterranean | 43 | |
| 8234334456 | At one point during the crusades, the Christian invaders killed every Muslim in Jerusalem. | True | 44 | |
| 8234348283 | Dhimmi was the second-class status offered to non-Muslims in areas controlled by Islamic governments. | True | 45 | |
| 8234350799 | The Alhambra is in this city: | Granada | 46 | |
| 8234357005 | The Spanish Inquisition was established to: | hunt down those suspected of being insincere converts | 47 | |
| 8233674655 | The "sixth pillar" of Islam is Jihad. | True | 48 |
