Dar-Al-Islam WHAP Questions (RQ 9)

Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based off of a common 

belief.

Which of the following is true of pre-Islamic Arabia?

Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians lived among the established Arab populations.

What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunnis and Shias?

Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world.

Which of the following was the most thoroughly Islamized region in the period from 600 to 1500?

Anatolia

Which of the following contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic/Arab Empire in the century following the death of Muhammad?

The weakened condition of the Byzantine and Persian empires

Which of the following religious traditions blended elements of Hinduism and Islam?

Sikhism

Which of the following statements expresses a view of women found in the Quran?

Women were spiritually equal to men.

In contrast to the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty

rejected Persian cultural influence.

Which of the following is a distinctive feature of Sufism?

An exclusively male movement with no place for women

Which of the following was a force that helped bind the lslamic world together?

The system of Islamic education created by the ulama

Which of the following was a feature of Islam that attracted converts in India?

the Muslim notion of equality of all believers

Sufi practitioners facilitated the conversion to Islam of people living in Anatolia and India by

emphasizing personal experience of the divine, rather than the law

In which region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than from the result of conquest and Islamic rule?

West Africa

Which of the following was a result of the cross-regional ties created in the expanding Islamic world?

the exchange of agricultural products and practices from one region to another

Which of the following refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime?

Hajj

The Arab Empire that accompanied the spread of Islam stretched from

Spain to India

Why was the city of Mecca important?

It was the site of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated.

Which of the following is a requirement for all Muslims?

Almsgiving

Which of the following events marked the beginning of the new Islamic calendar?

Muhammad's emigration to Yathrib/Medina

Which of the following 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

Which of the following describes the effect of Islam on West Africa?

Islam had the greatest influence on ruler and urban elites.

Which of the following resulted from Muslim rule in Spain?

The secular aspects of Islamic learning influenced the shaping of new European civilization

Which of the following is an example of a role assumed by the ulama?

Judges

Which of the following was a goal of the education offered at the madrassas?

To preserve an established body of Islamic learning

Which of the following refers to the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad?

The hadiths

Which of the following was an Arab innovation?

Algebra

Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions?

Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism

Which of the following aspects of Arab tribal life was reinforced in the Quran?

Solidarity

In contrast to the spread of Buddhism and Christianity, the early spread of Islam

gave rise to a larger empire

Who was the African ruler who went across Africa on his Haji to Mecca, to fulfill his pilgrimage and legitimized his rule?

Mansa Musa of Mali

Conversion to Islam was a powerful incentive or all but which groups of individuals?

Berbers living in the Arab Empire

All of these statements about the spread of Islam into India are true except

Hinduism was so tolerant and inclusive that Islam easily reconciled all aspects of its practices to conform to the Indian population

With respect to women, the Quran did all of the following except

required women to be veiled in public

Dhimmis were granted special status as "people of the book" and paid a special tax. What does "people of the book" mean?

Christians who practiced their faith in Muslim communities

Which of the following explains why Muhammad's face is obscured in the paintings of the night journey, the Battle of Badr, and the destruction of the idols?

to avoid idolatry

Which of the following was the center of long-distance oceanic trade in the millennium from 500 to 1500?

The Indian Ocean