Unit 2 Lesson 11.3 Scholarship and Learning

What did Muhammad say about the ink of scholars?

• It is more precious than the blood of martyrs
• It is less valuable than the blood of martyrs
• It is equally valuable as the blood of martyrs
• It has no value

What language became the language of scholarship and science throughout Islamic lands?

• Urdu
• Arabic
• Turkish
• Persian

What allowed scholars in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East to exchange ideas and build on one another's work?

• Shared economic system
• Shared political system
• Shared religion and culture
• Shared language and love of learning

What did Muslim rulers build to promote learning?

• Schools, colleges, libraries, and other centers of learning
• Markets and trade routes
• Military bases and fortresses
• Palaces and gardens

What was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?

• A center of learning where scholars from many lands gathered to do research and to translate texts from Greece, Persia, and India
• A hospital for the sick
• A palace for the Caliph
• A mosque for the faithful

What was the Hall of Wisdom in Cairo?

• A palace for the Fatimid dynasty
• A mosque for the faithful
• A hospital for the sick
• A place where scholars and ordinary people visited its library to read books

What was Cordoba?

• The Roman capital in Spain
• The Christian capital in Spain
• The Jewish capital in Spain
• The Muslim capital in Spain

What did the library in Cordoba hold?

• As many as 100,000 volumes
• As many as 400,000 volumes
• As many as 10,000 volumes
• As many as 1,000,000 volumes

What did Muslim philosophers use to try to prove important truths?

• Reason and logic
• Emotion and intuition
• Tradition and authority
• Faith and revelation

What did Al-Kindi say about humans and knowledge?

• Humans had one source of knowledge: revelation by God
• Humans had no sources of knowledge
• Humans had one source of knowledge: reason
• Humans had two sources of knowledge: reason and revelation by God