Deck 10: D: The Worlds of Islam Afro-Eurasian Connections 600-1500

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Great city of West Africa,noted as a center of Islamic scholarship in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Answer 1

Timbuktu

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
One of the greatest polymaths of the Islamic world (980-1037),a Persian who wrote prolifically on scientific (especially medical)and philosophical issues;he is often known as "Avicenna," the Latinized form of his name.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Answer 2

Ibn Sina

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Special tax paid by dhimmis in Muslim-ruled territory in return for freedom to practice their own religion.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Answer 3

jizya

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The community of all believers in Islam.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The flight of Muhammad and his original seventy followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina)in 622 C.E. ;the journey marks the starting point of the Islamic calendar.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Great Muslim theologian,legal scholar,and Sufi mystic (1058-1111)who was credited with incorporating Sufism into mainstream Islamic thought.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A significant syncretic religion that evolved in India,blending elements of Islam and Hinduism;founded by Guru Nanak (1469-1539).

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The mystical dimension of Islam that sought to return to the spirituality of Muhammad's time;central to mainstream Islam for many centuries,roughly from 1100 to 1800;followers renounce the material world,meditate on the words of the Quran,and pursue an interior life,seeking to tame the ego and achieve spiritual union with Allah.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
An academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad in 830 C.E.by the Abbasid caliph al-Mamun.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Arabic name for Spain (literally "the land of the Vandals"),most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces in the early eighth century C.E.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The five core practices required of Muslims: a profession of faith,regular prayer,charitable giving,fasting during Ramadan,and a pilgrimage to Mecca (if financially and physically possible).

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Islamic religious scholars.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Formal colleges for higher instruction in the teachings of Islam as well as in secular subjects,founded throughout the Islamic world beginning in the eleventh century.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The most holy text of Islam,recording the revelations given to the prophet Muhammad.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Islamic law,dealing with all matters of both secular and religious life.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Muslim king of Mali (ca.1280-ca.1337)who famously undertook a pilgrimage from his West African homeland to the holy city of Mecca.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
An imaginary folk character within the world of Islam and especially among Sufis who expressed a skeptical attitude toward the rational mind,sanctimonious posturing,human vanity,and the many faces of the ego.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 18

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Family who ruled the Islamic world from 661 to 750 C.E.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 19

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Dynasty who ruled an increasingly fragmented Islamic state from 750 to 1258,eventually becoming little more than figureheads.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina

Question 20

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Fourteenth-century Arab traveler (1304-1368)who wrote about his extensive journeys throughout the Islamic world.

A)Quran
B)umma
C)Pillars of Islam
D)hijra
E)sharia
F)jizya
G)Umayyad caliphate
H)Abbasid caliphate
I)ulama
J)Sufism
K)Mullah Nasruddin
L)al-Ghazali
M)Sikhism
N)Ibn Battuta
O)Timbuktu
P)Mansa Musa
Q)al-Andalus
R)madrasas
S)House of Wisdom
T)Ibn Sina