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Total questions: 68
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads as caliphs within Islam; came to power in 750 C.E.
a)
Abbasid
b)
Mauryan
c)
Mughal
d)
Umayyad
e)
Han
2.
First caliph of Islam after the death of Muhammad
a)
Ali
b)
Abu Bakr
c)
Mu'awiya
d)
Muhammad
e)
Ibn-Rushd
3.
Cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; one of orthodox caliphs; focus for Shi'a
a)
Ali
b)
Abu Bakr
c)
Mu'awiya
d)
Muhammad
e)
Uthman
4.
Islamic God
a)
Allah
b)
Allah
c)
Allah
d)
Allah
e)
Allah
5.
wealthy and landed elite during the early period of Abbasid rule
a)
Shogunates
b)
Aryan
c)
Mamluks
d)
Tumens
e)
Phonecians
6.
Capital of Iraq
a)
Mecca
b)
Medina
c)
Tigris
d)
Baghdad
e)
Jeruselum
7.
the written record of Muhammad's sayings and actions.
a)
Constitution
b)
Analects of Confucious
c)
Bible
d)
Hadith
e)
Qu'ran
8.
(معاوية) is a male Arabic given name of disputed meaning. It was the name of the first Umayyad caliph.
a)
Muhammad
b)
Ali
c)
Mu'awiya
d)
Chief Kiev
e)
Ibn-Buttata
9.
It spelled the end of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasids, a dynasty that would last (under various influences and with varying power) until the 13th century.
a)
Battle of the River Zab
b)
Peloponnesian War
c)
Battle of Siffin
d)
Warring States Period
e)
Battle of Muhammad
10.
It was fought between Ali who ruled as the Fourth Caliph (Shias consider Ali the First Imam), Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Muawiyah I, on the banks of the Euphrates river, in what is now Raqqa, Syria.
a)
Gempei Wars
b)
Battle of Mahmud
c)
Civil War
d)
Battle of the River Zab
e)
Battle of Siffin
11.
a nomadic Arab who lives in the Arabian, Syrian, or North African deserts
a)
Muhammad
b)
Bedouin
c)
Ali
d)
Medina
e)
Abbasid
12.
successor to Muhammad as political and religious leader of the Muslims
a)
Muhammad
b)
Ali
c)
Caliph
d)
Medina
e)
Chinngis Khan
13.
ethno-religious group that primarily inhabit the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination.
a)
Sunni
b)
Orthodox
c)
Copts
d)
Catholics
e)
Protestant
14.
Syrian city that was capital of Umayyad caliphate
a)
Damascus
b)
Baghdad
c)
Medina
d)
Mecca
e)
Jerusalem
15.
term referring to non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state.
a)
White Lotus Society
b)
Muhammads Followers
c)
Mamluks
d)
Sunni
e)
Dhimmis
16.
Arab sailing vessels; equipped with lateen sails; used by Arab merchants.
a)
Junks
b)
Dhows
c)
Gokstad
d)
Submarines
e)
Aircraft Carriers
17.
duties Muslims must carry out; they are faith, prayer, alms, fasting, pilgrimage
a)
Zenj
b)
Five Pillars
c)
Hajj
d)
Jizya
e)
Zakat
18.
Muhammad's move to Medina. Start of the Islamic calendar (632 CE)
a)
Hajj
b)
Migration
c)
The Movement
d)
Hijra
e)
Pilgrimage
19.
A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims
a)
Hajj
b)
Hijra
c)
Ka'ba
d)
Jihad
e)
Qu'ran
20.
(among Muslims) a war or struggle against unbelievers
a)
Hajj
b)
Qu'ran
c)
Jihad
d)
The Five Pillars
e)
Hijra
21.
Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within a Muslim empire
a)
Jihad
b)
Jizya
c)
Qu'ran
d)
Ka'ba
e)
The Five Pillars
22.
the stone cubical structure in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Mecca, believed to have been built by Abraham and regarded by Muslims as the sacred center of the earth
a)
Jihad
b)
Jizya
c)
Qu'ran
d)
The Five Pillars
e)
Ka'ba
23.
A city of central Iraq south-southwest of Baghdad. It is a pilgrimage site for Shiite Muslims, who visit the tomb of Hussein, grandson of Muhammad
a)
Timbuktu
b)
Dhimmis
c)
Mecca
d)
Medina
e)
Karbala
24.
First wife of Muhammad
a)
Mary
b)
Khadijah
c)
Kali
d)
Chabi
e)
Theodora
25.
Non-Arab converts to Islam
a)
Mawali
b)
Dhimmis
c)
Jizya
d)
Sufis
e)
Shi'a
26.
the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace
a)
Medina
b)
Mecca
c)
Jerusalum
d)
Baghdad
e)
Constantinople
27.
located in present-day Saudi Arabia and is also the capital of its Al Madinah Region. At the city's heart is al-Masjid an-Nabawi ("the Prophet's Mosque"), which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.
a)
Mecca
b)
Jerusalem
c)
Abu Dabi
d)
Medina
e)
Cairo
28.
the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632)
a)
Jesus
b)
Chinngis Khan
c)
Muhammad
d)
Siddhartha Guatama
e)
Sunni
29.
Christological doctrine that emphasizes a distinction between the human and divine natures of the divine person, Jesus
a)
Nestorians
b)
Copts
c)
Catholics
d)
Preists
e)
Jews
30.
The holy book of Islam
a)
Qu'ran
b)
Tale of Genji
c)
Bible
d)
Vedas
e)
The Lord of the Rings
31.
Arabic: قريش) were a mercantile tribe that historically inhabited and controlled Mecca and its Ka'aba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe.
a)
Quraysh
b)
Aryan
c)
Bedouin
d)
Mawali
e)
Tumens
32.
abstaining from food and drink during the daylight. the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset.
a)
Jizya
b)
Jihad
c)
Starving
d)
Ramadan
e)
Tumens
33.
-Defeated Bedouin Tribes -Brought Power to Islam
a)
Peloponnesian Wars
b)
Ridda wars
c)
Seven Year War
d)
Battle of Tours
e)
Battle of the River Zab
34.
or Neo-Persian Empire, known to its inhabitants as Ērānshahr in Middle Persian, was the last period of the Persian Empire (Iran) before the rise of Islam, named after the House of Sasan who ruled from 224 to 651 AD.
a)
Ottoman Empire
b)
Roman Empire
c)
Sasanian Empires
d)
Greek City-states
e)
Sudanic States
35.
leaders of the tribes and clans usually elected by a council of elder advisors
a)
Caliphs
b)
Zakat
c)
Shogun
d)
Shaykhs
e)
Emperors
36.
members of division of islam- means supporter of Ali
a)
Sunni
b)
Umma
c)
Ulama
d)
Dhimmis
e)
Shi'a
37.
Muslim group that accepts descendants of the Umayyads as rightful rulers of Muslims
a)
Shi'a
b)
Umma
c)
Sunni
d)
Seljuk Turks
e)
Dhimmis
38.
members of the Sunni dynasty of caliphs that ruled a Muslim empire from 661 to 750. the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus
a)
Ottoman Empire
b)
Seljuk Turks
c)
Sunni
d)
Umayyad
e)
Juula
39.
The term for all Muslims as a community. Muslim religious community
a)
Sunni
b)
Caliph
c)
Boyars
d)
Ulama
e)
Umma
40.
companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third of the Rashidun, or "Rightly Guided Caliphs."
a)
Uthman
b)
Al-Mahdi
c)
Ibn Battuta
d)
Ali
e)
Abu Bakr
41.
chief administrative official under the Abbasids
a)
Caliphs
b)
Hijra
c)
Jinshi
d)
Juula
e)
Wazir
42.
One of the Five pillars of Islam; Tax paid to help those in need
a)
Hijra
b)
Zakat
c)
Jizya
d)
Hajj
e)
Ramadan
43.
was a Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic. Al-Ghazali has been referred to by some historians as the single most influential Muslim after the prophet Muhammad. Within Islamic civilization he is considered to be a Mujaddid or renewer of the faith, who, according to tradition, appears once every century to restore the faith of the community
a)
Al-Ghazali
b)
Ibn-Rushd
c)
Al-Mahdi
d)
Ibn Khaldun
e)
Muhammed
44.
Caliph of Baghdad. 775 to his death in 785
a)
Ali
b)
Abu Bakr
c)
Al-Mahdi
d)
Allah
e)
Al-Ghazali
45.
Chances of you getting this right vs wrong
a)
1
b)
0.75
c)
0.5
d)
0.25
e)
0
46.
One of the great Islamic rulers of the Abbasid era. Fifth caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (786-809), who ruled Islam at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights Entertainment).
a)
Belisarius
b)
Al-Mahdi
c)
Saladin
d)
Harun al-Rashid
e)
Justinian
47.
a more active form of devotion to the gods and goddesses. Once the Hindus realized that Islam could not be absorbed into the Indian culture, they reemphasized cults (which were effective in neutralizing the spread of Buddhism) to attempt to prevent the spread of Islam to its (Hinduism's) followers.
a)
Bhaktic Cults
b)
Mahayana
c)
Serfs
d)
Shi'a
e)
Sunni
48.
a member of a Persian Shiʽite dynasty that arose in a.d. 932 and extended its authority into Baghdad and reduced the caliphs to puppets before being overthrown by the Seljuk sultans in 1055.
a)
Ayan
b)
Buyids
c)
Boyars
d)
Bushi
e)
Shogun
49.
(1162-1227), founder of the Mongol empire; born Temujin
a)
Hulegu
b)
Batu
c)
Ogadei
d)
Chinggis Khan
e)
Ashoka
50.
A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia
a)
Peloponnesian Wars
b)
Crusades
c)
Gempei Wars
d)
Ridda Wars
e)
Warring States Period
51.
A Javanese Muslim state located on Java's north coast in Indonesia.
a)
Jizya
b)
Demak
c)
Malacca
d)
Malaya
e)
Shrivijaya
52.
North African Arab historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. He is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"). The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians like Kâtip Çelebi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and Mustafa Naima who used the theories in the book to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire.
a)
Ibn Battuta
b)
Ibn Khaldun
c)
Ibn Rushd
d)
Abu Bakr
e)
Ali
53.
15th-century Muslim mystic who played down the differences between Hinduism and Islam.
a)
Mira Bai
b)
Kabir
c)
Sumatra
d)
Indra
e)
Mansa Musa
54.
a triangular sail hung from a long pole attached to a short mast
a)
Lateen Sail
b)
Triangular Sail
c)
Square Sail
d)
Dodecahedranal Sail
e)
Rectangular Sail
55.
ruler of an Afghan dynasty; invaded northern India during the 11th century.
a)
Caliph
b)
Muhammad
c)
Mahmud of Ghazni
d)
Hulugu
e)
Ogadei
56.
A state and coastal city In SW Malaysia, was an early center of the spice trade
a)
Shrivijaya
b)
Sumatra
c)
Malacca
d)
Heian
e)
Malaya
57.
Rulers of Egypt, descended from Turkish slaves.
a)
Bantus
b)
Egyptians
c)
Mongols
d)
Mamluks
e)
Seljuk Turks
58.
Celebrated Hindu writer of religious poetry; reflected openness of bhaktic cults to women
a)
Li Bo
b)
Tale of Genji
c)
Bedas
d)
Opanishads
e)
Mira Bai
59.
were one of many nomadic groups who lived in the vast open grassland planes of Eurasia
a)
Mongols
b)
Bedouins
c)
Aryans
d)
Romans
e)
Kievan Rus
60.
Persian ruler of a small Afghan kingdom; invaded and conquered much of northern India. Military commander of Persian extraction who ruled small mountain kingdom in Afghanistan
a)
Muhammed ibn Quasim
b)
Ibn-Rushd
c)
Muhammad of Ghur
d)
Ibn Khaldun
e)
Hulegu
61.
Arab general who conquered Sind and made it part of the Umayyad Empire.
a)
Muhammed of Ghur
b)
Muhammad ibn Qasim
c)
Ibn Battuta
d)
Indra
e)
John Wick
62.
Islamic general who led the Muslims during the crusades. Reconquered most of the land lost to the crusaders.
a)
Ibn Battuta
b)
Ibn-Rushd
c)
Muhammed of Ghur
d)
Saladin
e)
Mansa Musa
63.
Sati or suttee is an obsolete funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband's pyre or commits suicide in another fashion shortly after her husband's death.
a)
Seppuku
b)
Chabi
c)
Martyr
d)
Sati
e)
Sewercide
64.
Go over Jerusalem in 1071 and attacked the Byzantine empire
a)
Jurchens
b)
Seljuk Turks
c)
Mongols
d)
Ottoman Empire
e)
Bedouins
65.
written by firdawsi in late 10th century and early 11th centuries
a)
Shah-Nama
b)
Tale of Genji
c)
Qur'an
d)
Mamluks
e)
Upanishads
66.
Trading empire in Southeast Asia. Trading empire centered on malacca straits between Malaya and Sumatra.
a)
Shrivijaya
b)
Malacca
c)
Sumatra
d)
Delhi
e)
Malaya
67.
A branch of Islam emphasizing a personal, mystical connection with God
a)
Mahayana
b)
Zen
c)
Sunni
d)
Shi'a
e)
Sufis
68.
The theologians and legal experts of Islam. Best known as the arbiters of sharia law.Muslim religious scholars.
a)
Ulama
b)
Sufis
c)
Serfs
d)
Gurus
e)
Caliphs
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