Name the practice of spiritual exercises and mortification such as prayer, fasting, abstinence, and self-denial for the purpose of acquiring and growing in virtue.

Identify the term used for the Islamic reform movement which emphasized the desire to return to the purity and simplicity of Muhammad's original teachings.

Name the term used for a supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government.

Identify one of the 12 members of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He simultaneously holds a seat in the Assembly of Experts.

Identify the Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali as the true rulers of Islam.

Define the tradition of relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Qur'an, the most important basis for Islamic law.

Define the Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God--divine love through intuition rather than through rational deduction and study of the shari'a. Followed an ascetic routine (denial of physical desire to gain a spiritual goal), dedicating themselves to fasting, prayer, meditation on the Qur'an, and the avoidance of sin.

Name the ritual washing performed by Muslims before prayer. Muslims must be clean and wear good clothes before they present themselves before God.

Identify a "way of life"; Arabic word describing the social, ethical, and legal system of Islam

Name the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah.

Identify the term used for tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims.

Name the term used that is popularly understood to mean "holy war" but is preferably translated as "utmost struggle" and refers to a personal struggle to uphold the tenets of Islam.

Identify the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset.

Name the city in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion.

Identify the term used for the Muslim place of worship.

Identify the Arabic, chapter of the Qu'ran, obviously central to the class.

Name the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina.

Name the 255th verse of surah Al-Baqara, the second chapter of the Qur'an.[1] This ʾĀyat speaks about how nothing and nobody is comparable to God.[1] It is the most famous verse of the Qu'ran and is widely memorized and displayed in the Islamic world due to its emphatic description of God's power over the entire universe.

Name the largest branch of Islam. After the death of Muhammad, Muslims who accepted Abu Bakr as the first Caliph became known as Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah or "the people of tradition and unification" in order to differentiate them from the Shia, who rejected Abu Bakr's authority in favor of Muhammad's cousin Ali as the next Caliph.

They are mostly found in Iran and Iraq, and among the Palestinians. They consider certain direct descendants of Ali - the Imams - infallible and the true inheritors of Mohammed.

What was Mohammad's first occupation?

Name the month long festival Mohammad disliked in which he would go the mountain cave to hide.

Each year during the 12th month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims make what annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia?

Define what the angel Gabriel tells Mohammad to do.

Identify the significant event in Islam when Mohammad flew on a winged horse to Jerusalem to visit prophets and then to heaven to talk with Allah then back to Jerusalem.

What kept the assassins from searching the cave to find and kill Mohammad and Abu Bakr?

Identify where women of Islam rights are clearly defined.

What did the Quran give women?

To the western world, what has become a symbol of oppression to women in Islamic countries?

Because of the emphasis on God's power and sovereignty, name the two words which have been used to describe Islam.

Identify another religion which believe that people have no choice in life.

Define why some Muslims state the layman's theory of predestination in the Islamic state is misunderstood?

Define what Allah allows for human subjects in which to be judged.

Although their fate is decided, what is the religious obligation of the humans?

In the Quran, what happens when a person dies?

Where is the information on the faithful and unfaithful kept?

Where was the Qur’an written and who was it told too?

Who worked with Zayd to develop the authorized version of the Qur’an?

Explain how a person is given the title of hafiz.

How did Mohammad's secretary Zayd, keep track of the writings of the Qur’an scribe to her by Mohammad?

Identify what a verse is called in the Qur’an.

Identify what one of the 114 chapters are called in the Qur’an.

Who raised Muhammad?

Identify the cube shaped structured which housed the Gods and no violence was allowed around it for a 30 mile radius.

What was Muhammad's nickname?