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62 Cards in this Set
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Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common |
Faith |
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What is true of pre-Islamic Arabia |
Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrianism lived among the established Arab population |
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What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunnis and Shias |
Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world |
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What was contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic/Arab Empire in the century following the death of Muhammad |
The weakened conditions of the byzantine and persian empires |
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What was the most throughly Islamized region in the period from 600 to 1500 |
Anatolia |
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What religious traditions blended elements of Hindusim and Islam |
Sikhism |
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What statements expresses a view of women found in the Quran |
Women were spiritually equal to men |
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In contrast to the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty |
Allowed non-Arabs to play a prominent role in society |
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What is a distinctive feature of sufism |
Renunciation of the material world in the pursuit of spiritual union with Allah |
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What was a force thst helped bind the Islamic world together |
The system of Islamic education created by the ulama |
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What was a feature of Islam that attracted converts in India |
The muslim notion of equality of all believers |
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Sufi practitioners facilitied the coversion to Islam of people living in Anatolia and India |
Emphasizing personal experiences of the divine, rather than the law |
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In what region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than the results of conquest and Islamic rule |
West africa |
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What refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime |
Hajj |
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What was result of the cross-regional ties created in the expanding Iskamic world |
The exchange of agricultural products and practice from one regon to another |
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The Arab Empire that accompanied the soread of Islam stretched from |
Spain to India |
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Why was the city of Mecca important |
It was the site of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated |
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What is the requirement for all muslim |
Almsgiving |
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What event marked the beggining of the new Islamic calendar |
Muhammad's emigration to Yarhrib/Medina |
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What contributed to the mass conversion of people living in the middle East to Islam by the eighth century |
Conversion to Islam offered many financial and social benefits |
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What describes the effect of Islam on West Africa |
Islam had the greatest influence on rulers and urban elites |
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What resulted from Muslim rule in Spain |
The secular aspects of Islamic learning influenced the shaping of New European civilization |
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What is an example of a role assumed by the ulama |
Judges |
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What was a goal of the education offered at the madrassas |
To preserve an established body of Islamic learning |
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What refers to the saying and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad |
The hadiths |
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What was an Arab innovation |
Algebra |
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Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions |
Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism |
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In contrast to the spread of Buddhism and Christianity, the early spread of Islam |
Gave rise to a large empire |
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What of the aspects of Arab life was reinforced in the Quran |
Solidarity |
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Map 9.3 in the text book shows that different part of the Islamic world were connected through |
Trade |
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According to the Quran, under what circumstances is the use of war and violence justified |
To defend oneself against another's aggression |
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What behaviors does the hadiths encourage |
Charity for the less fortunate |
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What reflects a view of marriage expressed in the sharia |
Marriage is based on the consent of both parties |
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As expressed by the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi, where can Gid be found |
In one's heart |
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What reflects sensibility expressed in the poetry of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi |
"By speech and by silence and by fragrance, catch the scent of the king everywhere" |
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In the fourteenth-century Persian painting of Muhammad's encounter with Gabriel, what does the posture of the two figures suggest is happening |
Gabriel is commanding Muhammad to recite |
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What details in the sixteenth-century Persian painting of Muhammad's night journey indicate that Muhammad is traveling through the heavens |
The depiction of angels |
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The sixteenth-century Turkish painting of the Battle of Badr suggest that Muhammad's victory was due to |
Divine intervention |
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In the elenventh-century Persian painting of Muhammad's and his followers at the Kaaba, what do the images inside the small boxes lining the top and left side of the painting represent |
The idols that had been stored inside the Kaaba |
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What explains why Muhammad's face is obscured in the painting, the Battle at Badr and the destruction of the idols |
To avoid idolatry |
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From the founding of each religion, Christians and Muslim shared a belief in |
A single omnipotent deity |
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The second passage does not support the first passage because the second passage |
Present an incident in which a military order supported a Muslim traveler |
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What characterized the trans-Saharan |
Muslim merchants dominated the trade |
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What was an immediate effect of the intial Muslim conquest of the seventh century C.E |
The weakening of the Byzantine Empire and the collapse of other empires |
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The photograph shows a fourteenth century C.E mosque in the city of Xi'an central China. This image most clearly supports which of the following conclusions about the spread of Islam |
Early Muslim communities in China adopted local architectural styles for their religious buildings |
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Where is Jerusalem |
A |
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Where is Mecca |
D |
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Where is Medina |
C |
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A key similarity between western Europe and West African leaders in the period 1000-1490 was their |
Adoption of scholarship from Muslim civilization |
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The growth of Islam in West Africa before 1450 was largely the result of |
Influence of Muslim traders from the north involved in the trans- Saharan trade |
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What factors best explains the distribution of Muslim population shown on the map above |
Merchant activity |
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Where is Russia |
A |
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Where is ukraine |
D |
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Where is Georgia |
E |
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Where is turkey |
K |
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Where is Armenia |
S |
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Azerbaijan |
T |
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Where is Lebanon |
R |
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Syria |
U |
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Where is Iraq |
L |
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Where is Israel |
I |
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Where is Jordan |
J |